Tilon Quill
Intergalactic
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A station as a waypoint for exploration, first discovered during the Sar'andor expedition to Companion Cresh in the 870s. Located at the edge of Companion Cresh closest to the main galaxy.
- Image Source: Thargoid ship from Elite: Dangerous
- Canon Link: Koros-Strohna
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Ancient Yuuzhan Vong
- Affiliation: None
- Market Status: Open Market; can be visited/referenced freely.
- Model: Partial Koros-Strohna
- Production: Unique
- Material: Dead biotechnology
- Classification: Space Habitat (Derelict)
- Length: 4000 m
- Width: 4000 m
- Height: 600 m
- Armament: None
- Defenses: Low (tough inert hull)
- Hangar Space: A wide variety of hangar spaces, mostly damaged, some retrofitted.
- Maneuverability Rating: None
- Speed Rating: None
- Hyperdrive: None
- Standard life support in certain areas, totalling around 20% of internal volume.
- None.
- A great deal of accessible space.
- A few surviving Yuuzhan Vong biots are present in some diversity.
- Portions have been pressurized and retrofitted to allow the dead worldship to function as a basic space station.
- The best known jump-off/access point to the small galaxy called Companion Cresh.
- Very remote and safe from most threats.
- No sensors.
- No weapons.
- No shields.
- No ability to move.
- 80% hard vacuum inside. Pack a space suit.
In the mid-870s,
Cotan Sar'andor
led the first known expedition to Companion Cresh. The expedition's convoy discovered a dead Yuuzhan Vong worldship core drifting in a star cluster at the edge of Cresh. They explored the dead worldship and interacted with the last vestiges of life there. Suitable apertures were retrofitted with airlocks, allowing around five percent of the huge derelict to be pressurized with a human-standard atmosphere. Some expedition members, including
Jend-Ro Quill
, lingered in the dead worldship after the main expedition moved on. Several sought to help it find rest in various ways. In the ensuing decades, the derelict became known as Gadma, Yuuzhan Vong for 'welcome.' Explorers and far traders made use of it as a waypoint and trading post. It acquired a relatively persistent population of a few dozen individuals at any given time, scattered across diverse portions of the structure. The vast internal spaces offered opportunities to install prefabricated shelters and fuel depots in privacy.
As of 900 ABY, around 20% of the internal volume is pressurized, and any number of independent interests have a small temporary or permanent presence on Gadma Station. Anyone who visits Companion Cresh from the main galaxy has probably fuelled up there, bought maps, tried some amphistaff gumbo (a local delicacy), and taken on experienced and/or desperate crew.
