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Grand Archive

The Hyperion Federation is extremely good at gathering information because of their immense use of technology. Several races of the Federation are highly curious by nature. Additionally, due to the very old age of the Federation itself, it has had even more opportunity to collect information. For example, data on deceased civilizations.   The combination of the above 2 factors gives the Federation a ludicrous amount of data to work with, so much in fact that storing it becomes a problem. For example, techprints can store all the locations of individual atoms of an item, and there are quadrillions of techprints. To this end, they have built the Grand Archive, which does not have a physical location. It is a huge network of data units across Federation space, all of which can store information in spacetime crystals.   While anyone can access most of it, some sections containing more sensitive data are locked away from those without authorization.   The HSA owns and operates vast quantities of data centers, massive buildings designed to house very large quantities of servers. As the technology posessed by the HSA is very advanced, even one of these servers could potentially store more information than entire data centers of other factions.   HF data centers can be directly controlled by a Sentient Robot in a similar way as one can take control of a ship and become a Freelancer Starship. While the facility is under control by sentient beings, though, Phelke are required to go through extra security even though the security of the building is already very strict. This is to prevent any possibility at all that the phelke will STP with the data center.   As quantum computers can be disrupted easily even by single external quantum particles, the facility is extremely well shielded with several metre-thick layers of dense material that absorb almost all solar radiation other than neutrinos. Additionally, alarms are installed that will trigger if even a very small quantity of dust is detected. As such, the facilities are constantly cleaned and monitored to make sure the alarm does not trip under normal circumstances. This alarm will automatically close any nearby doors, intended to contain any fires. The doors are rated to withstand immense temperatures of up to 2000C, which is hotter than the surface of a G class star. They can also completely seal an atmosphere and resist pressure differences of over 500 atm.

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