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SPACE STATION ODDITIES An interesting question: was Federated-Boeing inspired by Wolf’s Dragoons when it came to the Capitol? The Dragoons’ famous Hephaestus Station is a modular space station delivered to its destinations by JumpShips—usually one large JumpShip can carry all the modules—which are then plugged together on-site. Federated-Boeing skipped the on-site assembly by keeping the Capitol under the 100,000-ton capacity of a JumpShip docking collar, but the aerospace community continues to speculate about the reported similarity of the K-F boom extension in the Capitol to the Hephaestus. Though that approach to station delivery might seem convenient, it’s extremely expensive, on par with DropShips rather than conventional space stations. The usual methods of space station construction are either construction on-site by local industries, or shipping in much smaller modules by DropShip from a central facility. Of course, making a space station that can be carried by a JumpShip leads to another group of oddball space stations: jump-capable ones. Though a number of stations have been labeled as jump-capable, they are universally just normal JumpShips or WarShips that have been given a stationary duty, sometimes overgrown with additions and expansions. Honestly, conventional JumpShips meet the defi nition of space stations because 99.9 percent of the time they hover at standard jump points like a recharge station and hardly maneuver on their own except to dock with another vessel. Their only signifi cant movement is via hyperspace to another star.
