Quinnsat-1

Located 36,000 kilometers above Colonial Bay, Quinnstar-1 exists at the very boundary between middle and high Earth orbit. While its position would normally place it in a geosynchronous orbit, powerful station-keeping engines cause the station to emulate a geostationary orbit despite the northern latitude. The station is built as a large ring roughly 60 meters across, 7.5 meters wide and about 5 meters thick. The majority of the station is arranged in a long continuous floor over 180 meters in length that loops back up and over to itself. A 2m corridor runs along one of the outer walls of the station, occasionally switching to the opposite side now and again creating rooms about 5m wide and with varying lengths. Set about the station in about 60 meter intervals, three ladders lead up to the ceiling, each entering a 4 meter wide tube that leads to the center hub. Once inside the spoke artificial gravity shifts by 90 degrees, allowing it to be used as a walkway toward the 12 meter sphere that occupies the center of the station. The hub itself is split into three separate levels. The middle level of the sphere houses shield generators and the Q-Drive that powers the entire station, energies swirling within the beach ball sized object in patterns that become difficult to watch for prolonged periods of time. The outer skin of the other two levels is clear but incredibly tough acrylic, the artificial gravity reversing on the lower level (as determined by the gravity of the other two levels and the spokes) so that both levels create a dome overhead.