Station Support System

Station Support System

(McElligott Contingency Plan )

The Union has a habit of establishing Outposts and Stations far from Union Space, such as Distant Shores , the Fornax Cluster Hub ,the Gate Houses and research stations such as Z Point Station , Core Research Station , Van Deer Rift Station etc.(The Golden Bazaars in other Galaxies are also in this group of distant Union Outposts )

While these Stations are connected to the Union in some fashion, it is concieveable that contact is lost. Due to war, closing or destruction of a Gate or any form of cathastrophic event

McElligott deveoped the Station Support System contingency plan. It was approved by the Assembly.

In this plan the nearest possible planet able to support life is colonized and developed into a self sustaining community that in case of such a contact loss or Station evacuation emergency provides the occupants of that station with an alternative and means of survival without Union Contact. These SSS (station support systems)

recieve large stock piles of supplies and are developed to grow food and have sustaining industries. While contact is maintained, these colonies are regular colonies providing the station or outpost with fresh food and the station personnel with planet based recreation. SSS receive Long range Sensor arrays and Planetary Defense systems right away.

A Union Knowledge Cache is also maintained ( A data depository with copies of the Encyclopedia Galactica and Zero Time Stasis boxes with food crop seeds and food animal DNA)

In the case of Deep Space Stations such as the Bridge Stations, ZPoint station, Union Vault 1 and 2, where no star or planet is nearby, Deep Space Villages are built for the same reason (to give the Station population an alternative of escape.

Distant Shore Support System (Dee-Ess-Ess ) was the first of such systems.

Many of the older SSS usually develop into Union Enclaves and also guarantee Union Survival, in the worst of all cases, If the Core of the Union gets destroyed somehow.