The Orion

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Orion

The Orion is a massive, ancient deep-range starship, stuck in part of the superstructure of Puzzlebox, approximately ten light-years out from the Mess. It's immobile, though functional as a habitation and de facto headquarters for the Bonobian faction. Only a small percentage of the ship is usable, the rest sealed off with elaborate safeguards and security doors, most of which are impossible to bypass, by whomever the ship's former crew was. The ship is quite safe, having been carefully left and tended to by Puzzlebox itself, but having been stripped of any and all of it's useful parts. Because of the versatility inherent in Orion's workhorse-style design, it has become the ideal home for the Bonobians, allowing them to modify vast areas of what is available to them to suit their needs.

The Ship

As a spacefaring vessel, the Orion would have been a deep-range, multirole starship, able to cross space with relative ease, and reconfigure itself on the fly. Orion is approximately fourteen hundred metres long, and several hundred wide. Each deck is three and a half metres high, and there are at least a hundred of them. Only a few are accessible, all via the main deck, the spine of the Orion. It is theorized that the vessel is powered by a trapped microsingularity, using a process of vaccuum energy extraction. Magnetic field generators make up fully a third of the Orion's mass, used both to contain and mitigate the effects of Orion's gravity well, but also as an integral part of the ship's now-useless interstellar propulsion system. The ship is comprised mainly of two types of material; one is a nano-engineered crystalline composite, several orders of magnitude harder than most composites, and laced with superconducting fibres. The inner hull is a lightweight composite alloy that looks like and can be shaped like plastic, but is hard and cool to the touch like most metal solids. The interior architecture is smooth, curved lines with diode illumination, with all available areas smooth, well-kept, and brightly lit. Imbedded in the walls, behind pull-down panels, are computer consoles. However, the Orion computer has been belligerent at best, responding only to the simplest of inquiries. 99.99% of the Orion's systems are still locked out.

The Bonobian capital of the Mess

After discovering Orion on a vacation outing, Phoenix decided to transfer the home of the Bonobian faction from the burgeoning, crowded Mess's Bottomwarp to the more secluded, peaceful Orion, where there was room to expand. After several events that transpired between himself, and other factions, Phoenix regarded the Orion as valuable real estate for its protection as well as it's seclusion. Connected only by an n-space gate located in Bottomwarp, access is controlled in and out, and events are carefully monitored on-board to prevent violence. As a result of this security, Phoenix has taken the Orion and redeveloped it completely into a Bonobian locus of activity. Systems and areas have been converted for Bonobian use, resulting in an impressive array of facilities.

OOC Notes

Reference Pictures

A couple of pics I snapped with my digicam, for reference in planning Orion out, I figured I'd post them, for the hell of it.


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