General
This station is designed to be a space-based base or outpost, designed primarily as an intermediate destination (hence "waypoint") and cargo relay station between various routes and ship types.In particular, it is equipped with massive storage and ore processing capability, allowing it to excel as the dropoff point for space-based miners, with the refined material (or produced components) able to be collected by other ships. It also has a large grinder array on one end, granting it the ability to rapidly salvage even large ships and then provide the resultant components for collection.
The station has tens of MW of solar capacity and an extensive battery array, and is scripted to never allow the reactors to be drawn upon unless the total demanded power outstrips the capabilities of the renewable sources.
There are also many other scripts of mine running on it, including the O2 Controller, Cargo Manager, Power Manager, Airlock Controller, and Gas Compressor Manager.
This station is another case of my redesigning a workshop blueprint; the outer hull based on the "Void Station" design, but like in every other case it has been completely gutted and redesigned. This time significant external changes were also made, including the conversion of all landing pads into ore processing wings, the extensive solar array, and a new light kit. Overall, however, I kept the same basic layout and the same aesthetic design.
This blueprint uses pure heavy armor since it is designed to be left unattended for extended periods, and given that it lacks any sort of shielding, benefits from that durability in case of pirate attack. Given that it is space-based, the mass difference is irrelevant, but if cost is an issue, you can convert it to light armor with SEToolbox or similar.
I preserved and expanded the original blueprint's very clever way of using gravity generators to create a multiplanar structure, ie one where the "down" reference point varies with location and where you can run around in three dimensions. Be aware that that can be...disorienting.
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Underside.
Central Shaft Exterior.
Upper Hub.
Central Shaft.
Lower Hub.
Storage Wing.
Refinery Wing.
Platinum Wing.
Blast Furnace Wing.
Stone Wing.
Uranium Wing.
Observation Deck Level 1.
Observation Deck Level 2.
Reactor Pod.
Mods
A few mods were used in the making of this station, but aside from my own mods, none of them are required for core functionality, though removing them will leave a few holes that you will want to fix.- Expanded Ore Processing - this provides all the specialized ore processing blocks, without which the station will not be able to process anything but magnesium, gold, and silver (unless sorters are programmed, losing efficiency and/or speed for the remaining ores)
- Gas Compressors - this provides the bulk of the gas storage capacity; the station can be used without this, but it will have less than a fifth its usual capacity for H2 and O2.
- Nanite Control Facility - entirely optional
- PassageIntersections - without this, some of the entrance areas in the ore processing wings will be an empty hole
- Twin Grinders - replace with vanilla grinders (for a speed/AoE penalty) if desired
Blueprint Info
Grid Size
LargeBlock Count
14864Estimated Volume
113x38x113Block Groups
- Beacon Lights
- Blue Ring Lights
- Cargo Sorters
- Command Ring Lights
- Green Ring Lights
- Indoor Lights
- Landing Lights C
- Landing Lights D
- Landing Pad Flashing Lights
- Modules
- Outer Lights
- Pad A Group
- Pad A Landing Lights
- Pad B Group
- Pad B Landing Lights
- Pad C Group
- Pad D Group
- Pad E Flashing Lights
- Pad E Group
- Pad F Group
- Player Sensors
- Purple Ring Lights
- Red Ring Lights
- Ring Lights
- Runway Lights
- Signage
- Station Air Vents
- Station Airlock Lights
- Station Assemblers
- Station Batteries
- Station Blast Furnaces
- Station Cargo Ports
- Station Centrifuges
- Station Chairs
- Station Computers
- Station Connectors
- Station Cryo
- Station Displays
- Station Gatlings
- Station Grav Gens
- Station Grinders
- Station H2 Compressors
- Station H2 Tanks
- Station Interior Turrets
- Station Main Cargo
- Station Medbays
- Station Missiles
- Station Nanites
- Station O2 Compressors
- Station O2 Farms
- Station O2 Gens
- Station O2 Tanks
- Station Platinum Extractors
- Station Refineries
- Station Solars
- Station Stone Crushers
- Yellow Ring Lights
Subgrid Count
4Estimated Block Breakdown
| Block Type | Count |
|---|---|
| AirVent | 26 |
| Arc Furnace | 16 |
| Armor Sloped Corner | 8 |
| Armor Sloped Corner Base | 4 |
| Armor Sloped Corner Tip | 4 |
| Assembler | 5 |
| Battery Block | 54 |
| Beacon | 1 |
| Button Panel | 4 |
| Cockpit Open | 2 |
| Connector | 18 |
| Container | 14 |
| Conveyor | 180 |
| Conveyor Sorter | 8 |
| Conveyor Tube | 384 |
| Conveyor Tube Curved | 133 |
| Corner LCD 1 | 23 |
| Corner LCD 2 | 1 |
| Cryo Chamber | 4 |
| Enclosed Passage | 6 |
| Energy Module | 182 |
| Generator | 1 |
| Gravity Generator | 15 |
| Half Passage | 2 |
| Half Passage Cargo Access Enc | 2 |
| Half Passage Corner | 2 |
| Half Passage Corner Enc | 4 |
| Half Passage Enc | 16 |
| Half Passage L | 4 |
| Heavy Armor Block | 2684 |
| Heavy Armor Corner | 46 |
| Heavy Armor Corner 2 Base | 136 |
| Heavy Armor Corner 2 Tip | 222 |
| Heavy Armor Corner Inv | 57 |
| Heavy Armor Half Slope Inverted | 41 |
| Heavy Armor Inv Corner 2 Base | 122 |
| Heavy Armor Inv Corner 2 Tip | 80 |
| Heavy Armor Round Slope | 8 |
| Heavy Armor Slope | 534 |
| Heavy Armor Slope 2 Base | 2157 |
| Heavy Armor Slope 2 Tip | 1980 |
| Heavy Armor Sloped Corner | 4 |
| Heavy Armor Sloped Corner Base | 2 |
| Heavy Armor Sloped Corner Tip | 2 |
| Heavy Half Armor Block | 1239 |
| Heavy Half Slope Armor Block | 268 |
| Hex Stone Crusher | 16 |
| Hex Uranium Centrifuge | 30 |
| Hydrogen Reika Compressor | 2 |
| Hydrogen Tank | 10 |
| Interior Pillar | 3 |
| Interior Turret | 25 |
| Interior Wall | 1389 |
| LCD Panel Wide | 20 |
| LargeGatlingTurret | 12 |
| LargeMissileTurret | 4 |
| Light 1corner | 308 |
| Light 2corner | 12 |
| Medical Room | 4 |
| Nanite Cleanup Upgrade | 2 |
| Nanite Construct Upgrade | 2 |
| Nanite Control Facility | 1 |
| Nanite Speed Upgrade | 2 |
| Oxygen Farm | 4 |
| Oxygen Reika Compressor | 4 |
| OxygenGenerator | 6 |
| OxygenTank | 18 |
| Passage Air Vent Enc | 4 |
| Passage Glass Side | 2 |
| Passage L Intersection Enc | 10 |
| Passage Stairs | 16 |
| Passage T Intersection Enc | 1 |
| Passage Top | 2 |
| Passage Top Enc | 12 |
| Passage Top L Enc | 4 |
| Passenger Seat | 12 |
| Piston Base | 4 |
| Piston Top | 4 |
| Platinum Extractor | 4 |
| Programmable Block | 10 |
| Projector | 1 |
| Radio Antenna | 2 |
| Ramp | 24 |
| Refinery | 36 |
| Sensor | 10 |
| Slide Door | 50 |
| Small Container | 49 |
| Small Light | 221 |
| Solar Panel | 656 |
| Stairs | 5 |
| Steel Catwalk | 160 |
| Steel Catwalk 2 Sides | 153 |
| Steel Catwalk Corner | 1 |
| Steel Catwalk Plate | 149 |
| Twin Grinder | 49 |
| Window 1x1 Flat | 31 |
| Window 1x1 Flat Inv | 52 |
| Window 1x1 Inv | 8 |
| Window 1x1 Side | 12 |
| Window 1x1 Slope | 128 |
| Window 1x2 Face | 4 |
| Window 1x2 Flat | 11 |
| Window 1x2 Flat Inv | 2 |
| Window 1x2 Side Left | 4 |
| Window 1x2 Side Right | 4 |
| Window 1x2 Slope | 220 |
| Window 2x3 Flat | 45 |
| Window 2x3 Flat Inv | 62 |
| Window 3x3 Flat Inv | 1 |
| Window Edge | 19 |
| Window Square | 31 |