Valkoria Station

The Valkoria Station is a large private orbital facility that serves as the headquarters of the powerful Valkoria Consortium. It is also a multiple mining colony.

Location
Valkoria Station orbits around the resource-rich planet of Ganida III, which was a paradise-like class-M planet. Ganida III is in a star system ten (10) light years from Station Frontier.

Features
Valkoria Station contained a large and famous luxury resort district on its upper levels, complete with hotels and casinos. The city's economy was centered on Deuterium, Dilithium and Tritanium mining, which was crucial for the production of warp cores and starship frames.

Valkoria Station consisted of 312 levels, in addition to a top-side surface-level concourse. The level-arrangements were as follows:


 * Section 1 - Luxury hotels and casinos which made the city famous throughout the Alpha Quadrant.
 * Section 2 - Upscale housing areas.
 * Section 3 - Administrative offices.
 * Section 4 - Privately owned industrial areas with an infamous reputation, known as Port Town.
 * Section 5 - General housing of the facility's workers.
 * Section 6 - Factories.
 * Section 7 - Refineries and miners' quarters.
 * Section 8 - Contained the engines and tractor beam generators that kept the station orbiting and in position.

The main saucer-shaped structure of the station was 5 kilometers in diameter, and 2.5 kilometers tall, including the docking areas and communications arrays. Some of the nearby floating settlements and industrial platforms attached to the station through umbilicals were also considered part of the station.

Space docks
Also attached to the station through umbilicals were three space docks, each 1,500 meters long designed for ships over 700 meters in length. It featured numerous freighter and space shuttle hangars, and living quarters for its dock personnel. It provided repair bays for capital ships up to 700 meters in length, with bays for other smaller vessels.

Valkoria Station was controlled in all aspects by the Station Administrator, and was ably assisted by the bureaucracy and the city's business leaders. Furthermore, the Parliament of Guilds was a distinct faction which, by ancient custom, controlled the juries in all the city's courts.

The last official census placed Valkoria Station’s population at 50,080.