Sandbox-Scarcity:Odin

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The SCC-CC Odin, floating in space.

The SCC-CC Odin, or Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Central Command, is the primary headquarters for the Chainlink in Tau Ceti, and the primary focal point of the Corporation in the Spur. The station is is geosynchronous orbit above the NanoTrasen Headquarters in Mendell City.

Sections of the Odin

The Odin consists of three distinct sections: the residential section, the intelligence section, the command section, and the commercial section (also sometimes called shipping and receiving).

Residential Section

The residential section contains housing, shopping, and leisure facilities with accommodation ranging from simple hab sleeper booths to luxury apartments. It is the second largest section, and can easily be described as a city in space - inhabited almost entirely by corporate employees

The richest district of the residential block is known as "Archway" for its faux stone facades and was home to many corporate executives and senior members of NanoTrasen - now they are mostly employees of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate. It is the second smallest of the four sections.

Intelligence Section

The intelligence block is the largest of the four sections by far, and houses the massive infrastructure that makes up the most powerful Artificial Intelligence's currently known to exist, Huginn. The intelligence section is split into three main areas: Huginn's Core Complex, Huginn's Main Interface, and power generation for it all. The Section is located at the center of the Odin, a thickly plated plasteel cocoon suspended in space by thick pillars surrounded perpetually by high-powered shields. Security is incredibly tight throughout the section, and access is heavily restricted, limited to fewer than a thousand employees, with a vast majority being security personnel.

The Core Complex makes up most of the section, consisting of sixty independent decks and sixteen “strata levels." It is a winding maze packed with cables, processing units, data storage frames, network nodes, and gargantuan server racks that all come together to chew through the billions of exabytes (an exabyte is millions of terabytes) every millisecond. This area rarely sees human activity - when it does, it is almost always in the form of security patrols or annual checks - instead being entirely populated by cyborgs and other artificial forms of life controlled directly by Huginn, who was given responsibility to oversee maintenance of the area. There have been many concerns raised about allowing an intelligence - especially one as powerful as Huginn - to maintain and change itself, but the Lance alongside the SCC consistently assures the public that there is no need for alarm.

Huginn's Main Interface - what one would traditionally call an AI Core in a smaller AI - is arguably one of the most heavily defended locations in the Spur. It is only accessible through a special mag-rail in the Command Section - there are no other passageways, even to the rest of the Intelligence Section, and the entrance to the mag-rail is heavily guarded by members of the Lance. Security only increases at the first and only stop by the main interface, with even more guards of the Lance, but reinforced by an ever-present Heavy Asset Protection Team (HAPT) - Team "Freyja" - who keep a 24/7 watch over the main interface. Unfiltered access here is limited to just two people, NanoTrasen's Chief Research Director, and Miranda Trasen herself; the two are also the only ones who can grant others temporary access to the main interface, though any guests must be constantly shadowed by armed guards. What exactly the main interface for Huginn looks like is unknown, as not including the builders, fewer than a hundred people have ever been granted access.

Lastly is the power generation area, located a fixed distance away from any part of the station. It is accessible by Huginn's proxies from the Core Complex, and by shuttle for regular employees (though in case of emergency, there is also a mag-rail connection from the Command Section. The reason the area is set a fixed distance away from any part of the station is due to its nature - Huginn requires a tremendous amount of power - power that is output 24/7 by never less than two dozen Supermatter Crystals operating at as close to peak efficiency as possible. For redundancy, the total number of crystals located in this area is three dozen. Should a catastrophic failure occur there are backup generators and SMES for power, and the fixed distance was calculated to ensure that no other parts of the station would be damaged.

Commercial Section

The commercial section is a catch-all section and contains a wide array of facilities for all types of commercial activities. Whether that be the massive shuttle docks from which the Odin ships and receives all its goods, to the offices of Stellar Corporate Conglomerate associates. It furthermore contains the local Extranet servers, alongside being the section in which Station Security (Civil Protection) is headquartered.

Command Section

At the head of the command spire is located Tau Ceti's NanoTrasen Emergency Response Team (ERT) Command and facilities; this includes private docks for ERT vessels, armories and living quarters. At the base of the command spire are the station's docking facilities, with the lower berths serving the numerous heavy freight and mining vessels that traverse Tau Ceti and the upper serving as private dockland that services various ships ranging from luxury cruisers to system transports and junk barges. It is not unknown for some of the station's citizens to live within their personal spacecraft to avoid paying rental fees for station accommodation and only having to pay dock rental fees instead.

The station defenses are split into three systems: The first defense system is two private military frigates permanently stationed at the Odin - NTV Diewana and NTV Ogun, the crew of which is drawn from staff on rotation from the Odin. When in Sol Alliance space they are both licensed under Private Military Vessel Licenses (PMV). Both are capable of Atmospheric Operations. As a second defense system, the station itself is ringed by state-of-the-art point defense laser systems and an array of artillery canons. Whilst serving as one of the station's defensive measures, the weapons array can also allow the station to function as a Battle Cluster Defense Station for Biesel if it were required to do so. The third defense system is the paramilitary ERT teams supplemented by equipment enhanced Civil Protection units which can be deployed to repel borders or maintain the peace on the station in times of extreme civil disobedience.

The "outdoor" residential and commercial zones have a standard temperature of 25 degrees celsius with a light breeze. The Industrial districts and interiors have a variable temperature depending on the activities within.