Loki Station

Similar to the Shang Ra'la in concept if not scale, Loki Station is the Jade Empire’s top-secret location of choice. Analysts and Intelligence officers walk the halls with Patriots and astrophysicists in a facility devoted to the study and acquisition of the obscure and even weird.

Design
Built into the rock of four (largely hollow) asteroids, the station includes living quarters, offices, laboratories, storage facilities, and massive computer capability and data storage.

The station orbits a completely useless star, one of hundreds in the Jade Empire alone. There is no sign or record that it has ever been visited.

Defensive Capabilities
Of course, the station’s greatest defense is secrecy: even its existence is a closely guarded secret. Nevertheless, the station boasts a powerful shield generator, 10 quad lasers and 2 turbolaser turrets. Aside from these emplacements’ crews, fifteen Shau'ghunate Guard Patriots are on hand as necessary - ‘as necessary’ meaning whenever some hypothetical person discovers the installation and decides to go up against Patriots. Which is never.

History
The station was originally constructed in 6 ABY as an adjunct to the Five Rings research facility that was later destroyed by the Uul'ba-Rai. It survived the Jihad and replaced Five Rings; later it would also replace portions of the high-level physics research facilities on the gutted Kinetic Energy Tapping Station. It was here that the path into the Extragalactic Star Cluster was discovered; here, too, were analyzed the pieces of unknown technology brought back from the Dyson sphere within that cluster.

In 17 ABY, JEAF Commander (ret.) Brembla Kol-Rekali took up residence as a consultant and a Patriot trainer.

Functions

 * Emergency Command Center
 * Data Storage and Analysis
 * Patriot Training (Level Four)
 * Intelligence Officer Specialized Training and Education
 * Rare Technology Analysis
 * Rare Phenomenon Analysis
 * Theoretical and Applied Physics (Particle, Astrophysics, Quantum Mechanics, Hyperspatial, etc.)
 * Xenobiological and Xenopsychological Study