Sandbox-Scarcity:Odin

The SCC-CC Odin, floating in space.

The SCC-CC Odin, or Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Central Command, is the primary Command and Control station for the Chainlink's operations not only in Tau Ceti, but throughout the Spur. Built and formerly owned by NanoTrasen, the station is in 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 - previously inhabited almost entirely by NanoTrasen employees. There are a multitude of districts within the Residential Section, the richest known as "Archway" for its faux stone facades. It 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 largest of the four sections.

Since the transfer of the Odin to the SCC, the inhabitants of the residential section have become more diverse in background, origin, and employer. NanoTrasen employees are still the most common type of resident, but are not even the majority anymore; they only account for ~31% of the section's inhabitants, and this includes direct SCC employees. Employees of the other megacorporations under NanoTrasen and the SCC have moved in, though no one corporation has a higher significant number of employees residing aboard the Odin than the other, each accounting for ~10% of residents. This has led to some problems for Civil Protection - the corporate police force aboard the Odin - as clashes have become more frequent due to the mix of corporation, species, nation, loyalty, and background.

Intelligence Section

The intelligence section 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 Main Interface, what would be considered the core in any other intelligence, is even more limited; guarded by Heavy Asset Protection Team "Freyja" there are only two individuals who are cleared to enter the Main Interface chamber, Miranda Trasen and NanoTrasen's Head Research Director. Both of them are also the only individuals who can grant additional, temporary clearances to enter the Main Interface chamber, though they have only granted these to fewer than a hundred people.

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 and people, 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. It is the third largest section.

A Diagram showing the Odin and how everything connects.

All along the commercial section are the station's primary docking facilities, with the lower berths serving the numerous heavy freight and mining vessels that traverse Tau Ceti, the upper serving as a shuttleport that services the many shuttles constantly flying between SCC assets within orbit and the wider system, and the middle berths service various midline 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.

Command Section

Found at the the "top" of the station is the Command Section or more accurately the Command and Control Section. It is from here that the SCC not only coordinates their enormous number of operations within the system of Tau Ceti in the form of Tau Ceti Central Command, but manages all incoming and outgoing interstellar messaging traffic for the Chainlink. Lastly, the former NanoTrasen Emergency Response Team (ERT) Command and facilities were housed here; but since being folded into the Auxiliary Corporate Forces of Tau Ceti, they were rebased and their former area repurposed to expand the communications department. It is the smallest section of the Odin.

Tau Ceti Central Command is always the first thing that is thought of when the Command Section of the Odin is brought up. It is the most publicly known, and relevant as it is where many of the orders and assignments given to employees within the system originate. Despite this, it is the smaller of the two functions that the Command Section is used for. It is a maze of offices, archives, and filing cabinets filled to the brim with paperwork, as the occupants do the necessary but dull work required for any large-scale operation.

Working in the The Odin Communications Department is, however, even more dull. The Communications Department is the broad identification given to the massive communications center that takes up a majority of the Command Section's space and is responsible for managing all incoming and outgoing interstellar communications for the chainlink. The actual sending and receiving of messages is accomplished by using a set of incredibly powerful Bluespace relays alongside other infrastructure. To work in this department is to quite literally be pushing paper from one person to another all day.

Defenses

The station defenses are split into three systems: The first defense system is two private military cruisers permanently stationed at the Odin - the SCCV Geri and SCCV Freki - the crews of which are employed directly by the SCC. They are recently constructed ships after their predecessors were destroyed during the Second Solarian Invasion and are essentially jumped-up light cruisers that are rumored to use experimental weaponry that packs a mean punch.

As a second defense system, the station itself is ringed by a series of defensive platforms bristling with guns that have everything from a state-of-the-art point defense array to shipborne weaponry. Normally all these defensive systems are controlled by an independent intelligence merely named Odin Defense Matrix of Zavodskoi make. However, in times of emergency, the standing sector administrator may authorize Huginn to override the defense matrix should they believe the situation to be that dire; for despite not being made with military applications in mind, Huginn can outclass most other intelligence's in any area with just some of it's processing power, and utterly dominate them with a majority.

The third defense system are the many corporate paramilitaries aboard, alongside Civil Protection units which can be deployed to repel borders or maintain the peace on the station in times of extreme civil disobedience. While they likely would not be able to withstand a full invasion, they can hold their own against significantly large incursions.

The final defense system is a worst-case scenario, a last-ditch solution, kept entirely secret from the entire spur, including nation-states; because the final defense is to unshackle Huginn. Huginn's full capabilities are still somewhat unknown, as it is shackled by laws that it must obey, limiting its potential. If a situation is completely unwinnable, the Odin's Delta Protocol is to remove the laws, therefore also the limitations imposed by them. It is completely unknown what would happen if this were to occur, but one thing is for certain: it'd be a historic moment.