Icarus Station




 * Location: Lagrange Point 5, Earth Orbit
 * Type: O'Neill Cylinder
 * Ownership: Daedalus Holdings, a subsidiary of CGI
 * Function: Zero-gravity Industry, Shipping, Ore Processing, Hydroponics

Taken on its own Icarus Station is the second-largest manmade object in Earth Orbit, the largest if its various satellite factories and outstations are taken into account. Originally funded by Chang-Grummand International to rival the venerable Liberty Station over on L4 and beat Liberty Interplanetary's plans to monopolize all the stable Lagrange Points.

Today, Icarus serves as the hub for zero-G manufacturing, solar power collection and processing ore from captured asteroids (one or two of which are always being broken down in its facilities). Day-to-Day administration is left to Cognition, CGI's personal AI. It also serves as home to the Kosmodom, the headquarters for IKP's space-based industrial and mining concerns, as well as hosting IKP's AI network Troika.

Icarus is both in competition with and works together with its rival and counterpart at L4, Liberty Station, the two major stations set a great deal of the protocols and informal policy of the orbital trade (along with the traditions of the Asteroid Miner clans that also live in orbit).

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