The only remaining station owned by the MacMillian Mining and Extraction Corporation from their once mighty fleet of operations.
Overview
The only remaining station owned by the MacMillian Mining and Extraction Corporation from their once mighty fleet of operations. It’s located in the Thides system, and continues to operate along with their operations in the system. The station has seen better times, but it still general operational. The station contains:
- Landing hangers for smaller ships
- Docking hookups for large ships
- Services for ships (repair and fueling)
- Entertainment district
- Processing/Shipping factory for mining operations in the system
- Re-supply options for subcontractor and wildcatters working in this system
- Residences for station staff and visitors
- Security offices for the company
- Fed marshal office
As the crew observed on arrival, the station is laid out in four levels — the public entertainment and hotel district up top, station personnel below it, the cargo and warehouse level beneath that, and the processing units at the bottom, of which only units 3 and 4 still run. Security was running at roughly half strength: 52 personnel against a required 106.
Points of Interest
Appearances
- Session 1 (Session 01 - The Ragged Edge of Space) — The crew — Rock Lavey, Shackleton Magellan, Six, and the late-arriving Ronin Sanchez — reported here to take up MacMillian security posts. Rock and Shack thawed from cryostasis in the Docking Ring passenger terminal; Six smuggled himself in as cargo on the corporate cargo level. Induction ran through Solveig Kaufer’s formal orientation and Chief Holger Graeme’s blunter next-morning briefing, and the crew pulled their first shift screening arrivals at Security Gate 1.
- Session 4 (Session 04 - The Case of the Missing Courtesan) — The whole session played out aboard. The crew returned from Thides III to a quarantined ship, 24 hours of R&R, and a missing-persons case that walked them from the Entertainment District into the Royale Hotel, the Thides Cast Studio, and the Marshal’s Office — and finally into an armed ambush on the cargo level (Shipping and Receiving Sector). Three things about the station are now established in play: Kinetic Logistics can put armed teams and comms jamming aboard it; its reporting chain routes everything through the station manager rather than the Marshal Service; and the station manager himself, Wilton Agramunt, is missing.
Session 2 — The MacMillian Anomaly
Weeks of TAC-team patrol duty here culminated in the Processing II anomaly and what the crew themselves read as a possible first-contact cover-up. See Session 02 - The MacMillian Anomaly.
- Session 5 (Session 05 - Hostile Takeover) — The station changed hands. The session opens in the maintenance corridors with the ambush aftermath and moves through the security offices, two days of Entertainment District patrol, The Silk Abbey, the Marshal’s Office and Docking Bay 8. It returns to a coup already complete: Wilton Agramunt dead in his private residence, Solveig Kaufer announcing over station-wide comms that MacMillian had been acquired by Pratrock Dynamics, and Kinetic Logistics drop ships attaching to the hull — the station registering physical tremors as they locked on. By session’s end the station is under total lockdown: Holger Graeme and his security team locked inside their own office (cut free by Six), the jump gate controlled by the invaders, all ships grounded, armoured troops holding the corridors, and two transports plus eight-plus fighters in orbit. The crew left through Docking Bay 36 under fire, severing the umbilical, and out of the system entirely via a vortex torn open by the alien cube.
Relationships
- Located at Thides IV — The system's hub sits in this neighborhood.
Places Within
Agramunt's Private Residence
A posh, high-level residence aboard MacMillian Station IV with large windows overlooking the jump gate — the station still keeping up appearances at the top, the way the Royale Hotel does.
Docking Bay 36
A large hangar aboard MacMillian Station IV where the crew's stripped-down Type 113A transport was docked and loaded — by autonomous robots — with maintenance equipment for the Thides III run.
Docking Bay 8
A restricted, non-public docking bay used for station supply ships, reached through deserted badge-locked corridors.
Entertainment District
The top-ring public strip of MacMillian Station IV — neon and noise crammed into a single corridor of gambling dens, bars, and service establishments, smelling of spilled drink and opportunity.
MacMillian Station Security Office
The headquarters of MacMillian station security aboard MacMillian Station IV and the crew's workplace.
Marshal's Office
The Federal Republic of Worlds' official presence aboard MacMillian Station IV, directly across the corridor from the MacMillian Station Security Office.
Processing II
The second of MacMillian Station IV's four processing plants, mothballed and sealed off entirely — every sensor and camera in the sector reads offline, and access requires a maintenance chief to physically cut the blast door open.
Royale Hotel
A high-end hotel on the top level of MacMillian Station IV, where the station still keeps up appearances.
Shipping and Receiving Sector
The industrial cargo level of MacMillian Station IV — long, poorly lit corridors threaded with conveyor belts and automated handling machinery, the kind of patrol beat handed out as routine.
Thides Cast Studio
A cramped residential unit in a poorly maintained corridor of MacMillian Station IV, barely ten feet across, serving as both the home of Pia Kadyrov and the entire physical plant of Thides Cast.
Church of Saint Barbara
A chapel located on the MacMillian Station IV, it is a small space built out of a former residence.
Docking Ring
The outermost ring of the station, the docking ring is where most of the ships arrive at the station.
Processing I
First of the four processing plants located in the lower section of the station.
Stamp Supply
Owned and operated by Khasan Stamp, it is the major source of supplies for those conducting operations in the system.
The Main Line
The one time main path of the processing facility, it has become a sort of main street to the slums of MacMillian Station IV.
What Happened Here
The Pratrock Takeover
MacMillian is acquired by Pratrock Dynamics and MacMillian Station IV is taken by armed force in the same hours. The station manager is dead, the system's Federal Marshal is murdered, station security is locked in its own office, and the crew escape the system through a gate opened by the alien navigation device.