Location: Titania Shipyards
Overview
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | Orbital Shipyard & Space Elevator Terminal |
| Region | Titania Geostationary Orbit |
| Affiliation | Titania Republic / Unified Planets of Sol |
| Population | 45,000 (Transients and Spire Workers) |
| Primary Function | Shipbuilding |
Description
Operated by Price Waterhouse Cooper Shipyards, a company that uniquely only owns the Titania Shipyard, though most of its board members are heavily involved with the Titania Bank. It sits in high orbit above Titania, acting as the primary anchor for the Arclight Transit Spire—a massive space elevator tethering the station to the frozen surface below. It is a critical logistical hub for the UPN forces patrolling the Albion sector, keeping the heavy capital ships out of the planet’s gravity well.
Key Areas
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Pattern 1-7 | Docks made to house large capital vessels, such as UPN Navy Vessels and Large Freighters. Heavily guarded. |
| Rowntree’s | A dimly lit, retro-noir weed dispensary popular among off-shift spire workers. |
| Titania Bank | Prominent Albion-based bank. Handles 80% of transactions made in the sector. |
| The Array | The heavily shielded lower decks where forge heat is converted into a downward energy beam. |
Important Figures
| Name | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Lindskold | Commercial Customer Care | The sharply dressed, exhausted entry point for players needing to use the shipyard’s services. |
| Paola Calvetti | Union Worker | A grizzled veteran of the transit spire maintenance crews; secretly organizing strikes against PWC. |
| Phillip P. Peterson | Head of Operations | A strict, numbers-obsessed manager who absolutely despises aerated chocolate. |
| Mike Brooks | PWC CEO | Charismatic and wealthy; secretly a member of a shadow Kabal manipulating Albion’s economy. |
| Norman Ohler | Shipyard Worker | A hull-welder suffering from severe sleep deprivation, claiming to have visions of the Erebus Object calling to him. |
Culture and Social Structure
| Culture Traits | Description |
|---|---|
| Spire-Bound | Life here revolves entirely around the shifts of the transit elevator cars moving up and down the tether. |
| Corporate Noir | The local aesthetic mimics Earth’s 80s Noir retro-phase; neon reflecting off steel bulkheads, heavy synthetic coats, and chain-smoking in airlocks. |
| Social Hierarchy | Strictly Corporate/Hierarchical. Bank board members and PWC Execs at the top; Union mechanics and zero-G welders at the bottom. |
| Languages | Standard, Spire-Slang (a heavily abbreviated technical jargon). |
Local Economy and Trade
| Sector | Description |
|---|---|
| Primary Industries | Heavy Manufacturing, Starship Refitting, Financial Services. |
| Exports | UPN Frigates, Refitted cargo haulers, Corporate Financial Bonds. |
| Imports | Raw Titanium (from the Rift), Ionized Gas Propellant (from Erebus), Food (from Arclight’s hydro-farms). |
| Currency | Cillings |
Law and Order
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Governing Body | The PWC Board of Directors & Titania Bank Oversight Committee. |
| Primary Laws | Strict labor regulations, anti-unionization statutes, and mandatory UPN military priority for Docks 1-7. |
| Enforcement | PWC Corporate Security (often clashing over jurisdiction with UPN Military Police). |
Factions
| Faction | Goals | Influence (1 - 5) |
|---|---|---|
| Spire Workers Union | Better wages, safer conditions during external tether walks, and pushing back against PWC’s corporate overreach. | 3 |
| The Kabal | Control the financial flow of the entire Albion sector; quietly secure Erebus pretech artifacts. | 4 |
Recent Events
- The Thermal Dip: A sudden 4% drop in the heat-beam output threatened Arclight’s localized ocean temperature last month. PWC blamed “routine emitter maintenance,” but rumors say it was sabotage by the Spire Workers Union.
- Incident on Pattern 4: Norman Ohler’s “visions” of the Erebus Object caused a scene on Pattern Dock 4, leading him to accidentally weld shut a UPN Frigate’s airlock. He is currently under PWC psychiatric hold.
Adventure Hooks
- The Beam Corridor: John Grisham approaches the crew to smuggle Union agitators off the station. The only way past PWC Security is to fly an unshielded shuttle down the exterior of the transit spire, dangerously close to the lethal thermal microwave beam.
- The Kabal’s Ledger: A standard cargo inspection in Pattern Dock 2 reveals a shipment of pretech artifacts from Erebus, quietly funded by the Titania Bank. Mike Brooks will do whatever it takes to ensure the crew doesn’t report this to the UPoS.
- Ohler’s Echo: The crew needs vital ship repairs, but the only person who knows the specific schematics is Norman Ohler. They must extract him from the PWC psychiatric wing, but his “visions” might actually be a dangerous pretech frequency affecting the crew’s own ship systems.
Additional Details
Because the shipyard is tethered to the surface above the inverted subglacial city of Arclight, a massive thermal-exchange system handles the shipyard’s industrial waste heat. Rather than pumping physical heat down a 35,000-kilometer pipe, the excess forge heat is converted into a continuous, high-intensity microwave beam. This beam is fired straight down, parallel to the transit spire, into a surface receiver matrix that pumps the energy into the ocean below. This makes the shipyard a critical, fragile component of the planet’s localized survival infrastructure.