Inspired by Starship Troopers’ Lunar Ring Space Station
I have had this written up ready to post for a few days I thought that I should post it. I had made it just prior to the creations of the Dyson sphere that I have posted.
I thought that this makes an interesting space station that can be integrated into all most any Star Trek adventure where it could be fit in. I seem to remember seeing one in Star Wars Clone Wars where if I remember it as even larger around a terrestrial or maybe a gas giant. The biggest thing would be to change out the weapons into a star wars weapons systems. This station would easily fit around our own moon as a demo of what the station could look like. The biggest difference would be in Starship Troopers they do not have had any shields as protection and have what was like heavy plasma cannons to destroy anything dangerous. I could see it even as a Babylon 5 or Andromeda destination. I have given the station to ability to dock with even the Andromeda and a Star Destroyer.
I like that there are more than fifty million life forms on this ring. I think one around an earth like planet would have one hundred times of that.
Federation Lunar Ring Space Station
Class and Type: Halo-class Lunar Ring Space Station
Commissioning Date: various
Hull Systems
Size: 545 (2180)
Length: 18,100,000 meters
Beam: 2500 meters
Height: 1500 meters
Decks: 333
Mass: 43,000,000,000 metric tons
SUs Available: 12,900,000
SUs Used: 12,687,718
Hull Outer <8720>
Hull Inner <8720>
Resistance Outer Hull: 14 <18>
Resistance Inner Hull: 14 <18>
Ablative Armor: 1500 <300>
Structural Integrity field [1 power/10 Protection/round]
Main: Class 5 (Protection 80/120) <2204>
Primary Backup: Class 5 (Protection 40) <1102>
Secondary Backup: Class 5 (Protection 40) <1102>
Personnel Systems
Crew/Inhabitants/Capacity: 1,032,000/51,700,000/800,000,000
Crew Quarters
Spartan: 15,361,200 <768,060>
Basic: 21,261,200 <2126,120>
Expanded: 9,523,840 <1,904,768>
Luxury: 3,923,840 <3,923,840>
Unusual: 2,661,920 <2,661,920>
Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [28 Power/round] <8720>
Reserve Life Support [14 Power/round] <4360>
Emergency Life Support (13,080 emergency shelters) <4360>
Gravity [1090 Power/round] <2180>
Consumable: Three years worth <6540>
Food Replicators [2180 Power/round] <2180>
Industrial Replicators
Type: network of small Replicators [2 Power/round] <2180>
Type: 100 Large unit [2 Power/replicator/round] <300>
Medical Facilities: 10 (+2) [10 Power/round] <50>
Recreation Facilities: 10 (Six main holodecks; thirty personal holodecks; Large, luxurious eating Facilities; four large lounges; eight small lounges) [20 Power/round] <80>
Mercantile Facilities: 10 (30+ establishments) [20 Power/round] <80>
Personal Transport: Turbolifts, Jefferies tubes [2 Power/round] <6540>
Fire Suppression System [2 Power/round when active] <23>
Manufacturing/Ore Processing [2194 power/round] <2194>
Cargo hold: 1,600,000,000 cubic meters <48,000>
Locations:
Escape Pods <45005>
Number: 900,000
Capacity: 24 persons per pod
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Drive: None
Impulse Engine: None
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power/ round when in use] <2180>
POWER SYSTEMS
Fusion Reactor: 36 type 20 (generates 200 Power/round) <100 x 36 = 3600>
Locations:
Auxiliary Power: 200 reactors (generate 5 Power/reactor/round) <600>
Emergency Power: Type F (generates 50 Power/round) <50>
EPS: Standard Power flow, +200 Power transfer/round <11,100>5556954
Standard Usable Power:
Operations systems
Operations (OPS): <545>
Computers
Core 1: [5 Power/round] <4360>
Core 2: [5 Power/round] <4360>
Core 3: [5 Power/round] <4360>
Core 4: [5 Power/round] <4360>
Uprating Class Alpha (+1) [1 power/round] <8>
ODN <6540>
Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power/round] <61>
Range package: Type 7 (Accuracy 3/4/7/10)
High Resolution: 5 light-years (0.5/0.6 – 1.0/1.1 – 3.8/3.9 – 5.0)
Low Resolution: 17 light-years (1.0/1.1 – 6.0/6.1 – 13.0/13.1 – 17.0)
Strength Package: Class 9 (strength 9)
Gain Package: Class Bata (+2)
Coverage: Detects an additional 3000 substances/phenomena
Lateral Sensors [5 Power/round] <33>
Strength Package: Class 9 (strength 9)
Gain Package: Class Bata (+2)
Coverage: Detects an additional 3000 substances/phenomena
Probes: 1000 <10>
Sensor Skill: 4
Communications Systems
Type: Class 9 [2 Power/round] <28>
Strength: 9
Security: -6 (Class Delta uprating)
Basic Uprating: Class Beta (+2)
Emergency Communications: Yes [2 Power/round] <1>
Tractor Beams
Emitter: Class Delta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <12 x 36 = 432>
Accuracy: 4/5/7/10
Lactation: one located every twenty degrees of the ring one on the inside and one on the outside
Emitter: Class Beta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <6 x 54 = 324>
Accuracy 5/6/8/11
Location: one per the starship docking bays
Emitter: Class Beta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <3 x 36 = 108>
Accuracy 5/6/8/11
Location: one per the shuttle bays
Transporters
Type: Personnel [5 Power/use] <18 x 18 = 324>
Pads: 6
Emitter/Receiver Array: Personnel Type 6 (40,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition coils: Class I (Strength 8)
Number and Locations:
Type: Emergency [7 power/use] <18 x 18 = 324>
Pads: 22
Emitter/Receiver Array: Emergency Type 3 (15,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class I (Strength 8)
Number and Location:
Type: Cargo [4 Power/use] <12 x 18 = 216>
Pads: 400 kg
Emitter/Receiver Array: Cargo Type 3 (40,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class G (Strength 7)
Number and location:
Security Systems rating: 2 <10>
Anti-Intruder System: Yes [1 Power/round] <2180>
Internal Force Field [1 power/3 Strength] <2180>
Science Systems Rating: 3 (+2) [3 Power/round] <2195>
Specialized Systems: Bological studies, geological studies, Astronomical studies <15>
Laboratories: 400 <80>
Tactical Systems
Phaser Banks <27 x 72 = 1944>
Type VIII
Damage: 160 [16 power]
Number of Emitters: 120 (up to 3 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Class Beta (Accuracy 4/5/7/10)
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location:
Firing arc: 360 degrees ventral
Firing Modes: Standard, Continuous, Pulse, Wide-Beam
Torpedo Launcher <16 x 9 = 144>
Standard Load: Type II photon torpedo (200 damage)
Spread: 8
Range: 15/300,000/1,000,000/3,000,000
Targeting System: Class Beta (Accuracy 4/5/7/10)
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location:
Firing Arc: self-guided
Torpedoes carried: 5000 <500>
TA/T/TS: Class Beta [1 power/round] <8>
Strength: 8
Bonus: +1
Weapon Skill: 4
Shields (Forward, Aft, Port, Starboard) <20764 x 4 = 83056>
Shield Generator: Class 5 (protection 1000) [100 power/shield/round]
Shield grid: Type 0 (0% increase to 1000 Protection)
Subspace field Distortion Amplifiers: Class Zeta (Threshold 300)
Recharging System: Class 2 (40 seconds)
Backup Shield Generators: 4 (1 per shield) <2180>
Auto-Destruct System <2180>
Auxiliary Spacecraft systems
Shuttlebay(s): Capacity for 3600 Size worth of ships <7200>
Standard Complement: fifty size shuttles per each of the 36 hangers
Location(s): Main Shuttlebay
Docking bays:
9 rating 7 number of docks (ships up to size 7) [may supply 70 power/round/ship] <2 x 9 = 18>
9 rating 5 number of docks (ships up to size 5) [may supply 50 power/round/ship] <2 x 9 = 18>
Docking Ports:
9 rating 12 number of docks (ships up to size 12) [may supply 120 power/round/ship] <3 x 9 = 27>
9 rating 8 number of docks (ships up to size 8) [may supply 80 power/round/ship] <2 x 9 = 18>
9 rating 6 number of docks (ships up to size 5) [may supply 50 power/round/ship] <2 x 9 = 18>
9 rating 4 number of docks (ships up to size 4) [may supply 40 power/round/ship] <1 x 9 = 9>
Building notes:
The moon is around one third the size of the earth so I took the earth diameter and cut in a third and then gave the station an orbital path of half the diameter larger I could have even went to twice the diameter. I used the total circumference to generate a length and used it to determine size and the SU’s to build the station. Just as an exercise and it is work in creativity. I could even envision one around an earth like planet at a size equal to the diameter distance. This moon version is 1.5 the diameter of the moon and should be two times but would still be at the size that would be stable. For a planet size I would make it twice the diameter to maybe a little more in size.
I will think about doing a version of it around the Earth.