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BASTARD STATION

In the early days of the UGH the Frontier was several sectors closer to the Core Planets. A Frontier Charter was granted by the Chamber of Colonization to Bartoli-Stellar-Development Company to place and maintain a deep-space exploration and survey station in the Thrandor Sector. Bartoli managed to make a thin profit on the station, but when the sector was incorporated as part of the Union much of its profits evaporated.

However, one of the partners in the company noticed that there was a clause in the charter that stated that the station could only be inspected or boarded with an order signed by the Colonial Manager of the Thrandor Frontier Zone. But, there were no more Colonial Managers of the Thrandor Frontier Zone, since Thrandor was now a full sector of the UGH outside of Colonial Frontier management. The Chamber of Justice and the Chamber of Colonization argued about it for some decades, but decided that rules were rules and so, no one could legally search or inspect the station.

The owning partners of the station (the old shareholders of Bartoli) decided to use the legal loophole to make some non-legal profits. For a century or two the station has gradually run down, making a narrow living for the owners. Recently, the current partners were killed in a suspicious shuttle explosion, and the “company” solicitor has tracked down their heirs (our heroes, the Space Bastards) and informed them that they are the new owners.

Recent History

In the current era, a group of scoundrels come into possession of the station because a relative or friend was one of the previous owners and named each of them in their wills as the new owners of this sad station. They all died in a mysterious shuttle explosion and their lawyer Slick Tyrone contacted them to travel and receive their inheritance.

Station NPCs

Station Crew a certain number of losers were employed by the previous Bastard Board who form a rickety support crew for the station.

Station Visitors there are some travelers who make visits to the station.

Station Bums there is a mob of fugitive vagrants who scratch out a meager existence in the run down abandoned secrions of the station.

Station Decks

Bastard Station was once very well-appointed and functional, but over the past few decades its style and promise has crumbled to ruin. It is made up of three main sections, each connected by a zero-gravity well.

The first section is the one that still sees a little upkeep, and has seen the most wear. It includes the following elements:

The first and second section are connected by a zero-gravity well at the center of the station known colloquially as the “Bum Hole” because of the types of individuals who usually use it.

The second section, once the military center of the installation, has fallen into desperate disrepair. Many of the features it once boasted are now open to space and/or radioactive death traps. However, at its peak this section had the following elements that could potentially be restored:

The third and final section was once the home of all heavy industry of the station, and is often referred to as “Down Below.” It can be reached from the second section through another zero gravity well similar to the Bum Hole but much larger. It is believed that at least a few of the following elements were once found down here, but since the entire section was taken over by the mutant plant life that resists vacuum and lives off the star's light and the power core's radiation, none have descended and lived to tell the tale.

Possible Station Upgrades