Aldis Super Fortress
A very large space station in the Aldis System. Owned by the Xalarin Council.
It occupies a very high orbit around the star. It is intended to protect the entire system from enemy invasion, so it has a large number of particle cannons and missiles that can strike an enemy from many AUs away. The fortress is about 40 km in length, and armed with similarly massive weapons and missiles. It continually scans the entire system with multiple types of radar, as well as Cloaking Device inhibitors and Subspatial Starship detectors.
The super fortress also doubles as a very large shipyard. It can store an entire carrier and its escort force, and has enough drydocks for both. Materials are shipped to the fortress via shuttle starships, as well as larger cargo liners.
The fortress requires a lot of supplies to remain operational though. It has a number of massive cargo bays used for storing ammunition, repair kits and other important devices but the potential that it could be blockaded is significant despite the extreme range of its weapons. However, because of the extreme range of these weapons it will likely be very difficult to blockade because its likely that one of the sysetm planets could come within its range to resupply the station, and in fact several planets are designed to do this. There is also XC presence on many large asteroids for the same reason. For another force to capture the system, they would have to first capture the fortress otherwise it would accumulate a huge amount of attrition against enemies invading the planets first. Each planet and station in the system also has their own defences, so it would require a huge force to capture this system.
It occupies a very high orbit around the star. It is intended to protect the entire system from enemy invasion, so it has a large number of particle cannons and missiles that can strike an enemy from many AUs away. The fortress is about 40 km in length, and armed with similarly massive weapons and missiles. It continually scans the entire system with multiple types of radar, as well as Cloaking Device inhibitors and Subspatial Starship detectors.
The super fortress also doubles as a very large shipyard. It can store an entire carrier and its escort force, and has enough drydocks for both. Materials are shipped to the fortress via shuttle starships, as well as larger cargo liners.
The fortress requires a lot of supplies to remain operational though. It has a number of massive cargo bays used for storing ammunition, repair kits and other important devices but the potential that it could be blockaded is significant despite the extreme range of its weapons. However, because of the extreme range of these weapons it will likely be very difficult to blockade because its likely that one of the sysetm planets could come within its range to resupply the station, and in fact several planets are designed to do this. There is also XC presence on many large asteroids for the same reason. For another force to capture the system, they would have to first capture the fortress otherwise it would accumulate a huge amount of attrition against enemies invading the planets first. Each planet and station in the system also has their own defences, so it would require a huge force to capture this system.
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