Station

One of seven major Stations in low orbit around Terra. These Stations declined in utility and population after fusion drive propulsion became commonplace in the 2050s CE, and were dealt a death blow by antigrav propulsion in the 2080s CE.

Legeilan is a thousand butterflies wrapped in a translucent chrysalis, a water-filled shell two hundred meters across.

One of seven major Stations in low orbit around Terra. Kuumba was fitted with an early prototype of the fusion drive, and left Terran orbit in 2042 CE. It then became a spaceship on a regular Terra-Mars run, until it was made obsolete by atntigrav propulsion in the 2070s CE. Kuumba was ultimately moored to Deimos and retained as a museum.

Physically, Kuumba is simple and elegant, a geometer's dream: a tetrahedron the color of clouds, tumbling lazily in the sun. Within, shadows and stars move in stately patterns. The whole thing is an intricate jewel, a delicate Fabergé creation displayed on the blackest velvet -- until it grows with approiach, and the tiny insects that nuzzle at its vertices reveal themselves to be spacecraft. The tetrahedron measures five hundred meters along each edge, In its heyday, Kuumba carried twice as much traffic as any other Station.

One of seven major Stations in low orbit around Terra. These Stations declined in utility and population after fusion drive propulsion became commonplace in the 2050s CE, and were dealt a death blow by antigrav propulsion in the 2080s CE.

Freedom has the perpetually-unfinished, girders-and-solar-panels look of the late 20th century, fuel tanks and spinnign habitat modules sticking out in every direction, plainly of a piece with Soyuz and the Apollo lander.

Fictional station somehwere in the Transgeled, setting for the popular holodrama The Lambency of Kipanga.

One of six co-orbital stations in orbit 20 million km from Mu Venarum. Operated by the Karphos Corporation, these stations mine the solar wind of Mu Venarum.

One of six co-orbital stations in orbit 20 million km from Mu Venarum. Operated by the Karphos Corporation, these stations mine the solar wind of Mu Venarum.

One of six co-orbital stations in orbit 20 million km from Mu Venarum. Operated by the Karphos Corporation, these stations mine the solar wind of Mu Venarum.

One of six co-orbital stations in orbit 20 million km from Mu Venarum. Operated by the Karphos Corporation, these stations mine the solar wind of Mu Venarum.

One of six co-orbital stations in orbit 20 million km from Mu Venarum. Operated by the Karphos Corporation, these stations mine the solar wind of Mu Venarum.

One of six co-orbital stations in orbit 20 million km from Mu Venarum. Operated by the Karphos Corporation, these stations mine the solar wind of Mu Venarum.