Starstone Reactor
Deep in the heart of the Spike lies the Starstone Reactor, which powers the entire Absalom Station. Given the incalculable value of the Starstone within, Absalom Station's elite Starstone Defenders keep the chambers surrounding the reactor under intense guard at all times, and only engineers with the highest security clearance are allowed access to the systems that transfer the artefact's energy to the rest of the station. These safeguards hide another fact: no one can actually reach the Starstone directly.
The Starstone itself is housed in a small chamber floating in the center of a large, mostly empty space called the Core, connected only by power conduits and four narrow bridges to the outer chambers where the engineering staff work. While heavy blast doors lead out onto these bridges, the codes locking them were apparently lost during the Gap, and attempts to tamper with them or gain access to the Core from another direction activate overwhelmingly deadly magical defences and cause a station-wide brownout. Still, foolhardy people occasionally try, as legend holds that those who manage to touch the Starstone and are found worthy can ascend to godhood, as Iomedae once did. This only compounds the need for the Starstone Defenders, though engineers peering through the observation windows report strange phantoms - some of them humanoid and dressed in modern station clothing styles - flickering in and out of existence inside the Core, leading some to wonder whether the Starstone has guardians of its own.
The Starstone itself is housed in a small chamber floating in the center of a large, mostly empty space called the Core, connected only by power conduits and four narrow bridges to the outer chambers where the engineering staff work. While heavy blast doors lead out onto these bridges, the codes locking them were apparently lost during the Gap, and attempts to tamper with them or gain access to the Core from another direction activate overwhelmingly deadly magical defences and cause a station-wide brownout. Still, foolhardy people occasionally try, as legend holds that those who manage to touch the Starstone and are found worthy can ascend to godhood, as Iomedae once did. This only compounds the need for the Starstone Defenders, though engineers peering through the observation windows report strange phantoms - some of them humanoid and dressed in modern station clothing styles - flickering in and out of existence inside the Core, leading some to wonder whether the Starstone has guardians of its own.
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Gleefully pillaged from Starfinder!