SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Earth Federal Space Marines/Jovian Defense Forces
TYPE: Mobile Space Shipyard (MSS)
MODEL: MSS-01 Nowhere Class space station
DATE INTRODUCED: 2173 AD
LONGEST DIAMETER: 7000 feet/2133.6 meters rim of each saucer
SHORTEST DIAMETER: 1000 feet/304.8 meters center core
HEIGHT: 5250 feet/1600.2 meters total
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT: 6000x Macrotechnologies IPFF-5000 Ion Plasma Fusion Furnace
OUTPUT: 5000 megawatts each (total output is 30,000 gigawatts)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: .25 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 67,500,000 tons
CREW: 156,749 + up to 3,000,000 passengers (480 Gunners, 675 Technicians, 675 Electricians, 675 Engineers, 675 Operators, 10,000 Security, 11,740 Officers, 100,000 Marines, 25,828 Medical, 5000 science, 1000 pilots, plus up to 7641 Passengers)

PROPULSION:
             PRIMARY (Main Engine):
             1x Io Heavy Industries IHI-EMD-6.075M
             SPEED: KiloMach 1 (.008 AU/hour or .20 AU/day)

WEAPONS:
            PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
            60x Lunar Dynamics LD-PC-600 dual 300-megawatt PHELAC turrets; Effective Range: 2400 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 3 blasts every twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 9 blasts per minute.

              SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
              120x Republic Arms RA-STL-02A1 space torpedo tubes; Missile Type: MST-01M 1000-pound computer-guided medium-range space torpedo; Effective Range: 7111 miles; Payload: 20 space torpedoes each in an autoloading torpedo tube; ROF:  1 torpedo per two seconds with a cyclic rate of 30 torpedoes per minute.
 
ELECTRONICS:
                1x Super Luminal Velocity communications array with a 10 light year range.
             1x Laser Communications array with a 10,000 mile range (one in each flight-control tower).
             1x Laser Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
             1x Super Luminal Velocity Sensor array with an 80 parsec range.
             1x Passive EMS Sensor array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
             1x Active EMS Sensor array with a range of 100,000 miles.
             3x Gravitational Control/Antigravity units.  One in each saucer section and one in the main shaft. Effect: Provides artificial lift, g-force compensation, and enhanced maneuverability.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
             6x Nippon Military Industries NMI-12K 12,000-megawatt deflector field generators; Range: 12,000 feet; Effect: Generates a field that can deflect 600 gigajoules of energy/force with a regeneration rate of 60 gigajoules per ten seconds.

CARGO BAY:
           2x 60,000,000 yd3 Bay holds 10 years of food and supplies for the crew (missions were rarely more than 8 years for this vessel).
 
HANGAR BAYS:
         2x 1,154,250,000 yd3; Each bay holds up to 80 Nevada, 40 Alaska, 20 Warspite, 4 Lord Nelson and up to 854,230,000 cubic yards of additional craft or equipment (though this would pack the bay tight and not allow for the ships to maneuver.  Normally this internal volume remains clear unless the station is moving to a new location.  Then it can be stuffed full for the move). These bays were normally used for repair of spacecraft. In addition each bay may have 1,425,000 yd3 of space dedicated to 500 HSF-01 space fighters or PI-02 Protean Interceptors for defense of the space station (1000 total).  It also normally has shuttles and construction craft (small, usually less than 1000 tons) moving about.

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
            8x Io Heavy Industries FPP-50K, 50,000 megawatt fuel production plant. EFFECT: Produces 100,000 yd3 of either liquid tritium or liquid deuterium per hour from hydrogen source (usually a gas giant).

DESCRIPTION:
            The MSS-01 was the first large-scale spacestation built by men of Earth. The MSS-01 design was actually taken from the NoWhere spacestation that was constructed some twelve thousand miles from the planetoid Pallas by the Earth Federal Space Marines after the infamous “Operation Athena” debacle. The NoWhere spacestation was constructed in order to repair the EFSM stranded fleet of class troopships and upgrade the entire EFSM SpaceNavy. The MSS-01 was nearly an exact copy of the NoWhere spacestation shipyard. The MSS-01 type of main spacestations was used throughout the 1st Interplanetary War. They were a vital part of the Jovian SpaceNavy’s control of the outer sphere through much of the Interplanetary Era.
            The MSS-01 series of spacestations were fitted with six-thousand Macrotechnologies 5000-megawatt fusion reactors that provided power for the entire station. The station was fitted with one lareg EMD drive for propulsion and could be anchored to a fixed position in space via its antigravity system.
            The station was armed with sixty Lunar Dynamics LD-PC-600 dual 300-megawatt PHELAC turrets. These weapons provided both anti-mecha and anti-capital ship defense of the station. The primary anti-capital ship weapons were one-hundred and twenty Republic Arms RA-STL-02A1 space torpedo tubes. These torpedo launchers fired the MST-01M 1000-pound computer-guided, medium-range space torpedoes.
            The defense systems of the MSS-01 were six Nippon Military Industries NMI-12K 12,000-megawatt deflector field generators. These deflectors were adequate during the 1st Interplanetary War.
            Numerous MSS-01/Nowhere class spacestations were built around Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and much of the space in between. These spacestations acted as “islands” for interplanetary craft (both civilian and military) to travel throughout the outer sphere of the Sol System during the last few decades of the 22nd century and the first few decades of the 23rd before faster-than-light drives become commonplace.
            The MSS-01 remained in service up until 2188 AD when the MSS-02 was introduced after the Outer Sphere War. All existing MSS-01s were converted to MSS-02s by 2189 AD.