Research Station

mperial Research Stations (P-Class) are listed in the classification system of Imperial worlds, but are not worlds themselves. Some are based in orbit on void stations around planets or on asteroids, or on the surface of a planet, such as certain Dead Worlds or Death Worlds.
Types of research stations include actual scientific laboratories, as well as surveillance posts for defensive purposes.
The Imperium and the Adeptus Mechanicus have many research stations scattered across the stars to collect data in an often vain attempt to better control Mankind's surroundings.
The aims of such stations vary, with researchers studying planetary storm patterns, dissecting captured xenos corpses, charting the stability of Warp entry locations like Mandeville Points, or probing the remains of ancient civilisations.
Research stations provide a stable base of operations to Tech-priests, scribes, Adepts, servitors, and the small Imperial armies sometimes necessary to support them in these often remote locations.
Most researchers never live to see any conclusive results. Once committed to a station, few ever leave, and their tasks are passed on through generations without end.
Useful results might never occur, or be lost in the impossible depths of Imperial bureaucracies, but sometimes glimmers do emerge and catch the eye of those looking for aids in defending Mankind.

"Send the last tonnages of recordings from batch four to adept Gaffiner for transcription, reconsecrate and re-anoint the scanners, and then begin recording batch five immediately." — Subaltern Heironymous Molg, Datascribe

Characteristics:
Intelligence +

Perception +

Fellowship -
Base Fate: 3
Emporer´s blessing: 8+
Base Wounds: 8
Aptitude: Knowledge
Pursuit of Data: Whenever a research station character reaches Rank 2 (Trained) in a Scholastic Lore skill, he also gains Rank 1 (Known) in one related or identical Forbidden Lore skill specialisation of their choice. The GM is the final arbiter of whether the two specialisations are related.