Station Transport

Station Transport – Aka Inter-Station – aka IST-

General term for a people or personnel moving system. Technically Slide Belts, Verti Shooters, Elevators and even Inter Station Taxies are “Station Transport” but usually it means Vacuum tube or Mono rail train or capsule like transport devices designed to move people ver the vast distances inside a Space station. Fleet personnel generally calls everything IST because it is the same term as “Inter Ship Transport” The reason for such systems are the enormous sizes modern space stations have. Gigamon Stations with 32,000 m or more diameter make such transport systems essential. The most complex and largest Inter Station Transport system is the Ross Thorus IST. In general riding and IST is free of charge. There are certain private owned Space stations where this is not the case.