"Abandoned" Bases

[DataPhreak]

I think all points on both sides are valid, both why a station would exist, and the fact that it would degrade. RP wise, I think it would really add a lot to portray the stations as somewhere in between. A slowly decomposing hunk of drifting metal occupied primarily by homeless scrags and missionaries. They should have minimal equipment, containing only the lowest grades of consumable ammunition, and very low rank weapons and ships, if they actually have any. consumer goods, oxigen, hydrogen, food rations, and drugs should be high price commodities, and things that would never be affordable by the poorest of the poor should go for the lowest price possible to reflect a lack of demand for those products. (But still be within relation to the region. I. E. No high prices for cardimine in a base in malta. That will probably be the biggest problem, regulating trade.)

The stations themselves should appear primarily incomplete. If we could take the Hispania Model (I think that's the name of the wreck in Malta) and make it a dockable structure, that would be perfect. Other potential candidates would be asteroid stations, and the very bare bones stations like the outposts found at the edge of most core faction regions. Further, placement should be in the most remote locations, and stations themselves should not appear on the nav map. (I remember jumpholes that never recorded on nav maps, surely we can do it with stations also.) If any one faction has residence too close to any station, they will inevitably attempt to dominate it. Of course, each station could still have its own story, which you could read after docking. One could be a drug den, (Can we get the backdrop from the asteroid base with the archway in SP?) another could be a refugee camp that is no longer supplied by the government. Trader outposts that were simply abandoned because the tradewinds shifted. (This happens on earth. Do a search for ghost towns in your area, there are probably more than a few.) You get the picture.

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We need 600m/s and 700m/s Debilitators.