SSS:Hevelius

SSS:Hevelius

The Hevelius, System (one planet) also serves as the Station Support System for the Gate House CV-Down. (Gatehouse for the Canes Venatici II gate: CANVENAONE )[1]

While Station Support Systems are technically not neccesary in the Canes Verdes II Dwarf due to the fact that the dwarf is already connected to the rest of the Union via a String of Stations and that there are Union members within the galaxy. The regulation requires a SSS for every remote station and thus the gates in this Dwarf have Station Support Systems.

[1] The Union has a habit of establishing Outposts and Stations far from Union Space, this especially holds true for the Gatehouses that are installed next to Trans Spatial Gates. 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. In the case of Gatehouses the very existence of Gatehouses, this possibility is very real as it is part of the reason for their existence, the SLAM DOOR protocol.

Admiral 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.