The Blazing Umbra Station is a Space Dock Class Space Station operated by Solas Tempus facility orbiting Shatten III in the Schatten Star System. The facility's location is kept largely secret from the general public, though it is not in an of itself classified. The star system it resides it makes it an excellent research and development facility, though recently the Action Arm of Solas Tempus due to the effects of subspace anomalies within the system with some surprising and largely unexplained effects.
Operations
The stations operations center is located at the top of the stations main structure just below the primary matter-antimatter reactors and subspace antennae. Operations is located at the center of that deck directly below the subspace antennae array above the docking region and central transport core. Operations is in charge of managing all the stations current operations. While there is an administration building for offices and the like in the simulated Earth-like area, those offices do not deal directly with the actual moment-to-moment operations for the station. There is always a duty officer in operations to respond to requests and otherwise manage the current status of the station, the duty officer is in command of station operations while on shift.
Flight Control
Flight and traffic controlling is performed in the flight control suite, officers there handle all incoming / outgoing traffic from the station and manage all docking operations. For security purposes this is kept separate from main operations and is secured from entry. In the event of an emergency flight control can act as an auxiliary command center.
Crew
Characters marked with a * are NPC's
Command Crew
- Commanding Officer
- Captain Neo Akazuli
- Executing Officer
- Commander Kitara Yasei
- Operations Officer
- Lt. Commander D'muk*
- Chief of Engineering
- Lt. Commander Angela Benton*
- Chief of Security
- Lt. Commander Mike-037
- Chief Tactical Officer
- Lt. Commander Argasun Qorchi
- Chief Medical Officer
- Doctor Aytise Alshat
- Lead Intelligence Officer
- Captain Lee Armstrong Finnegan
Engineering Crew
- Crewman 2nd Class Randy Baker*
Computer Specialists
- NCO Damien Smith
- NCO Mick Rodger
Medical Staff
- NCO Flint Stone
- NCO Alyssa Aspen
Station Policy
This is not a comprehensive list of policies aboard the station, they are the most notable policies.
- Civility must be maintained, assaults, threats of violence, murder, and the like are prohibited.
- There shall be no violations of private property or privacy unless such has been authorized by the stations command personnel.
- Theft shall not be tolerated aboard the station and the stations command may press charges even if the victim does not wish to.
- Civilian weapons should be kept secure while not in use, either on ones person or within ones quarters / the station armory.
- Personnel using the station armory for weapons storage, will have access to the armory granted.
- The stations armory is not to be treated as a general use weapons locker, unless otherwise authorized no person may remove weapons or other gear from the armory unless it belongs specifically to them.
- At the discretion of the stations command, occupants of the station may be asked to relinquish their weapons.
- New occupants to the station whose background cannot be checked will be asked to temporarily relinquish their weapons.
- Weapons relinquished will be placed in the station armory, but not for public use but for storage and study.
- After weapons have been analyzed for capabilities and potential threats, they can be returned to their original owner.
- Orders of the enlisted personnel should be followed by the civilian population, complaints about such orders and directives should be directed either toward the department head of the station personnel involved or toward one of the command crew starting with the Operations Officer.
Origins
The station's origin is largely unknown. Explorations by the USS Genesis found the station, completely intact, in the uninhabited star system. The systems anomalies make extremely difficult to travel too and from, so the station's existence was paradoxical. Further more, the station was already configured with an inactive, but completely functional, HAL 9000 hub. The power systems on the station were also completely depleted. Once restored the station's markings were of a Solas Tempus facility with the name of Blazing Umbra Station. The origin of this has long puzzled Solas Tempus officials and has been classified top secret by the Admiralty.
The final puzzle, however, is perhaps the largest. The HAL 9000 hub lists its installation date as over 1 billion years ago, which is quite frankly absurd. This was, however, confirmed by quantum signature dating of the station itself showing the station was in a temporal containment field for around that same amount of time which could very well be what drained the stations power systems as a field of that magnitude would be difficult to sustain for that long. Since the temporal containment field was in use during the time, more traditional means of data (carbon dating, potassium dating, or radiological analysis) are not available to use. These dating methods show that the station was released from its temporal field just a matter of days prior to the USS Genesis first discovering the station. Which would seem to indicate that power failed around that time.
Cover
The cover story that the station was purchased in pieces and assembled over the course of 2 years before being brought online remains accepted and intact. Research into the stations past is restricted.