Cellan Three
Celestial Lance Three, commonly called Cellan Three and originally Jalansiya, is a space station in the Hemelein Prime system. It is a Big Smart Object (as opposed to a Big Dumb Object).
Etymology
The official name of the station is Celestial Lance Three (after the Chinese name 梗河三 (Gěng Hé Sān, meaning "Third Star of the Celestial Lance"). It is mostly called Cellan Three because it's easier to say.
The original name of the station (in standard Rennya) was Jalansiya (zhah-LAHN-SEE-yah, with both the second and third syllables being emphasized), meaning "foothold".
Specifications
The station is located in a fixed polar station approximately 350,000 kilometers above the northern pole of Hemelein Prime 6. It has the following specifications:
- Radius: 850 km
- Diameter: 1700 km
- Circumference: 5340.7 km
- Surface area: 2.89 million km²
- Volume: 4.913 billion km³
A visual representation of the station layers if it was cut in half on the north-south axis is shown to the right.
History
The station was built about 500,000 years (and was abandoned about 23,000 years) prior to the events of Hemelein Discovery. AI maintained it the entire time as it waited for its creators (the Renn) to return.
Station levels
The wormhole is contained within a 500 kilometer diameter sphere at the center of the station. Surrounding the central wormhole sphere are 1650 horizontal meta-levels, each one kilometer in height (the extra 30 kilometers is taken up in structure between meta-levels). The levels are oriented perpendicular to the north-south axis of the station. Each meta-level is divided into 165 levels, each about 6 meters in height (the extra 1.65 kilometers is taken up in structure between levels). Each level has multiple concentric ring hallways with perpendicular connecting hallways between rings every 250 meters. The areas enclosed by the central three rings on each level next to the wormhole sphere are restricted areas. There are numerous docking bay elevators all over the surface that can bring ships down into the station, allowing better security and easier access for business and locations deep within the station.
Wormhole specifications
Hemelein Prime 6wb wormhole is 3.6 kilometers in diameter, and the spherical space enclosing it is 250 kilometers in diameter. Volume of the interior space is just under 65,449,847 cubic kilometers. The surface area of the inside walls of the enclosing sphere is about 785,398 square kilometers. There is plenty of room to fly around in fairly large ships, or even several fairly large ships.
Original cluster of surface buildings
Three sets of eight hangars. Each hanger building is rectangular, 500 meters tall by 4000 meters wide by 6000 meters deep. There are four openings on the two 4000 meter sides, each 950 meters wide and 300 meters tall. The openings are protected by large doors that retract downward into the metallic substrate.
Station AI
The station AI is named Jalansiya, after the station itself. Adele nicknames it "Lance", which the AI likes. After maintaining the station alone for around 23,000 years, it decided the Renn were not likely to come back. It then decided to try to find a new owner to serve, but it didn't have a lot of luck. At least 150 different times prior to the events of Hemelein Discovery, it captured ships and sentients who discovered it, but it was never able to find anyone it thought it could trust. Those who failed to impress it were shuffled off to the side of the station opposite the surface hangars in use at the beginning of Hemelein Discovery. There they spent the rest of their lives in a posh "prison" of sorts.
History
The station was discovered from the outside by Adele Watanabe and Imiloa during the events of Hemelein Discovery.
Features
- Artificial gravity
- Powered by the element Hemeleinium (named by the discoverers of the station after one of the names of the star, Hemelein Prima), atomic number 150, atomic weight , very dense and heavy, metalloid, brittle in natural form but forms incredibly dense and hard alloys used in building the station. Researchers don't know where to find hemeleinium ore yet. Related to that, have element 137 be named Feynmanium (for Richard Feynman), 155 named Khazanium (for Albert Khazan), and 128 named Enslium (for John Ensley).
- Weapon system? Come up with energy weapons, etc.
- Defensive systems (shields, etc. )
- Shuttles and maintenance ships
- Defensive ships
- Bulk intrasystem transport ships
- No aliens found on the station, at least in the parts that have been explored. There's a large part that no one has figured out to get into.
- The atmosphere was similar to Earth makeup, so required little change. Figure out exact details.
- The doors and equipment were designed for beings around 8 ft tall and with a slightly longer reach than humans.
- Everything appeared abandoned, possibly in a hurry, for an unknown length of time. None of the aliens Earth has contact with know of these aliens, though some may have legends.
- All the systems seem to be working as the air was not stale. Equipment is very durable and doesn't seem to break down, including the electronics.
- Everything was in an unknown language. The systems were smart, though, and figured out Standard (English, with some modifications) and started presenting the information in that and stopped using the original language. This happened about 2 years after discovery (discovery was in 4056). Current year is 4216. The humans have not been able to get the system to teach them the original language yet.
- Alternately, have the humans figure out the language.
- The waste systems are very efficient at recycling water and solid wastes, destroying any pathogens. Solid wastes are converted to a fertilizer used in the agricultural areas. Researchers are still trying to figure out how that system works.
Wormhole node
The Hemelein Prime 6wb wormhole is located at the center of the station, in a restricted access area. It connects to the Procyon A 4wb wormhole node.
Sensors within the wormhole cavity keep the station centered on the center of the wormhole. Holographic projection built into the walls of the enclosure can make it appear the wormhole is simply floating in space as usual. Humans and Halfen who previously visited it couldn't figure out how to get out, so never figured out where they were. The hemeleinium content in the alloy used to make up most of the station structure and walls causes most human and Halfen sensors to give glitchy or invalid results.
Maintenance bots
Squat oval bots, about 15cm long by 7cm wide by 7cm tall (at the center), tapering to about 2cm tall at each end. Dark green, shiny surface, very thin silver trim in places. Lights can sometimes be seen moving around beneath the shiny surface, but the cover is thick and doesn't let a lot of light through. They move using artificial cilia that allow them to easily move on vertical and horizontal surfaces. The cilia can elongate to about 3cm to allow them to move from a horizontal to a vertical surface more easily.
Facilities
The following is an incomplete list of facilities on the station:
- Commercial dock facilities and management (including traffic control and system patrol)
- Commercial offices for companies, dock facility managers, etc.
- Maintenance
- Warehouse facilities
- Customs (?, depends on a number of things)
- Military dock facilities (including traffic control, system patrols, etc.)
- Military barracks, training, offices, etc.
- Local police facilities (including system patrol)
- Government facilities (including embassy facilities as well as permits, and other normal government offices)
- Retail facilities (food, clothing, electronics, pretty much everything)
- Residential districts (for various levels of income)
- Hydroponics, food animal facilities (?), and other agricultural facilities
- Gardens and parks
- Scientific facilities (labs, offices, etc.)
- Educational facilities (k-12 (or whatever they are called), university, trade schools, etc.)
- Entertainment facilities
- Art and cultural facilities
- Translation services, cultural assistance services
- Non-oxygen breather facilities (including any of the above)