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History of Starbase Hellhound by Hound

Solaris

Solaris, Whorl System - HellHound (initially Cerberus-66) was built using a set of four size 5 space stations linked together through their hubs. Three of these were administrative, military and civilian stations while the fourth was an Ag Station. To this design special modifications were made to the hub ends at each end and two additional size 4 stations were added, one to each end. These stations were linked to the main station through "frictionless" hubs and once construction was complete thursters were fired to remove all spin on levels. Without spin, these station levels can now dock many more, and much larger, ships than a standard space station design which has docking restricted to the hub assembly.

Unfortunately HellHound fell into disrepair many years after its construction, as the planet it was built over fell off the major trade routes as it was wracked by nuclear civil war and balkanization. In this time one of the "frictionless" hubs broke down (in what is now believed to have been an act of sabotage), suddenly returning 0.6G spin to one of the docking levels. Several docked vessels were suddenly hurled into the planetary atmosphere, while others were launched accross-system. Damage inside the docking level was quite severe due to the amount of lightly secured shipping materials being kept there, but no hull breaches occured.

Now that StarBase HellHound is back in full service (with the end of the local civil war 14 years ago), several MegaCorps have bought into the station to bring it back to spec. But at no point has it seemed that returning the anti-spin setup to the second docking level would be efficient or necessary for the station. One reason for this recently is that this level has become a sort of no-man's-land where corporate employees, wet-work operatives and trouble shooters can meet and clandestinely work and plan. In effect, this has become a hot-bed for corporate espionage, and since all the corps find it useful once in a while, none are willing to shut it down.

The current StarBase HellHound game involves a team of espionage agents working for Streel who are trying to find out how PanGalactic manages to sneak defecting Streel agents off this station section without using the hub (as well as a bunch of other clandestine stuff).

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