Liberty Station




 * Location: Lagrange Point 4, Earth Orbit
 * Type: Stanford Torus
 * Ownership: Managed solely by Liberty Interplanetary LLC
 * Function: Space shipping, Habitation, Communications, Tourism

The largest and oldest space habitat still in operation today, Liberty Station was founded as a tax haven in the latter days of the old US of A by a consortium of industrialists that would later become known as the Drysdale Family. Even today it serves as the family home, with a certain percentage of the family residing there at any given time. The current Chief Administrator, like most of his predecessors, is a cousin of the Drysdales, although most of the day to day decision-making is done by Liberty's onsite AI, Talos.

Today, Liberty Station serves as the primary hub between the Beanstalks and the great orbital factories and the processing centers of the Asteroid Mining consortiums, sending both cheaply-made goods and raw materials rare on Earth back to the mother planet. It is also a freeport, where business can be done outside the grip of international business law as well as a tourist destination for the wealthy and jaded. Liberty is the home of the Swarga Loka Complex, headquarters for the Saraswati corporation's orbital interests, a hub for satellite communications and home to Saraswati's own Vāc AI, as well as the headquarters of IDEX, and the AI MasterComm which oversees it.

Liberty is both in competition and works together with its rival and counterpart at L5, CGI's Icarus 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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