One of the things that interest me are the stations, and how they're like on the inside. We got some tidbits in the Burning Life, but the thing that interests me the most are the Gallentean stations, as they're the ones that look to emulate planetside the most. Whereas the Minmatar wouldn't honestly care and the Amarr would have large open halls in their stations, the Gallenteans are into their luxury and indulgences. The most common Gallentean station is the factory one...
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London is 45km across, this station here is 59km across. That biodome canton is going to be considerable in that regard. I argue that, though it appears translucent in space, that on the inside, it would likely emulate a normal planetary sky. It would literally be an arcology, with cars, buildings, and so on. The richest of the rich on station would likely live here. In the "middle" wealth strata of the station, it's likely what the old Gallente interior looked like before CCP fucked it up.
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Here, there's skyscrapers and highways (and a
blimp). The chronicle "Her Painted Selves" by Abraxas mentions the skyscraper the story is set on being one of the "tallest buildings on station" (another Abraxas chron talked about a couple shopping in a station street, and how the season was currently at winter, so everyone had coats and hats). TBL mentioned "townhouses and apartments" just like on planet, on a Gallentean station. The "lower" strata of station would likely be your more generic affair large corridors and habitation modules, etc. Maybe.
I would argue that, on the Gallente 5 station, the closed canton is concerned with all the ship traffic, docking bays, hangars etc. The open canton would be residential, with the areas I described present, and the remaining area being where the actual industry takes place. I'd say a big "maybe" on all of that, because it seems a bit disproportionate in terms of real estate assignment (knowing the Gallenteans, they wouldn't exactly be efficient in this regard probably)
Gallente 4 stations are the rarest unfortunately, but they give away a lot.
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Here, actual Google earth planned cities can be seen, and this is likely to be your sci-fi affair of "cities in space". These are only operated by Combined Harvest, but there's likely to be countless other stations like these that aren't available to capsuleers (pleasure hubs tend to use this model).
It goes onto the idea of how a station is a "self-contained" entity. They appear as just nothing to us player-capsuleers, because we can travel between them in the space of just three clicks, but each one would have all the facilities present for a child to be born, grow up, get a job with either the station's owning corporation or the many (possibly hundreds) of smaller businesses that fill in auxiliary roles and so on.
It would be nice for CCP to consolidate info on this, it's all over the place. A little focus on the topic though, and it becomes pretty obvious what they're like.
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Topic: Gallentean "naturalist" stations (And probably stations in general) (Read 3293 times)