Upsilon Pranatais Xenobiology Station
The large space station that studies how people react to the strange makeup of the Upsilon Pranatais System, provding the Hyperion Federation with a surprisingly practical insight into the inner workings of organic and even mechanical brains. The station also studies other things, such as structural integrity in these often extreme conditions but is primarily for xenobiology.
The lab itself is also constructed in a strange way. It is extremely long and has several floating parts that are physically disconnected from the 'main shaft'. This provides the station with a lot of room to expand and the possibility of using centrifugal gravity. The Hyperion Federation prefers to add gravity using modified physical laws however. It can also be a dangerous place to visit as it has a lot of turrets that will fire at almost all nearby targets (they study people's reaction to getting shot too), but death in a Virtual Universe such as this is never fatal. Few visit it but there are groups that have managed to reach the innermost console and obtain a lot of valuable data about the system, station and what the HF has learned about it all. Most that attempt to land on the station are either killed by the turrets or retreat. The turrets have caused a lot of controversy, due to the extreme emotions one is likely to feel when being shot at. They have been placed despite this, partly in order to better inform their mandatory military training efforts. Some groups have even managed to destroy or disable some of the turrets.
There are many types of turrets on the exterior. These include large chaingun-like weapons, photon cannons, missiles, railguns and more. It often takes a lot of effort to destroy all turrets. The interior turrets are mostly chainguns and photon cannons however, allowing boarding teams to better counter them.
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