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A billion tons of spinning metal...
A city in space, the Funky Horror
sits in Lagrange Point 4 in high orbit, balanced between the Earth and
the Moon. Up here was one place the Board and their Goddess were certain
of not being disturbed. Attempting to quantify it as "just" a
space station is missing the point - it is a home away from home for
almost the entire Board, their innate weirdness warping it beyond mere
metal and plastic into a very strange place indeed.
Built in secret, first at foundries across the world in
thousands of separate modules, and then blasted into orbit from the
huge launch base in Mexico to be mated with sections constructed in
zero-gravity, the Funky Horror was built as the ultimate
self-contained headquarters. Internal hydroponics, construction and
refinery equipment make the massive station self-sufficient almost
indefinitely, although regular supply runs ensure the Board's constant
drive to experiment and create is stoked with exotic materials
unavailable in space. Massive ECM facilities and cloaking modules keep
the station hidden from prying eyes, and a sleeper network in media
outlets and astrophysics laboratories ensures humanity remains quietly
unaware of the deity that walks among them. A globe-spanning network of
spy satellites and finely-tuned passive sensor arrays ensure the
blackout is most certainly not two-way.
Home away from home for the Boardies aboard her, the Funky
Horror's crew is commensurate with her size, with over 100,000
engineers, operations staff, and technicians needed to keep the base
running. No less than seven fusion plants provide energy to the
power-hungry Boardies, their fuel drawn from lunar ice, and a bizarre
zero-point powerplant operates the infamous Reality Control Array, a
warped piece of quasi-metaphysical "technology" donated by the Goddess
to enable Boardies to coexist with an Einsteinian universe. Gigantic
docking facilities that take up almost 30% of the immense station's
volume allow for "dry dock" construction and repair of even FLEET's
behemoths, alongside thousands of small-craft bays. A full wing of
fighters is kept on standby at all times, as well as dropships and
marine brigades ready for immediate deployment under all circumstances.
As the heart of Board and FLEET operations, the Funky
Horror is packed with command, control, and communications
facilities, each constantly co-ordinating operations and activity
around the world. Speculation and their AIs constantly monitor the
Earth's communications chatter for anything that may need to be acted
upon. Even when all is quiet, the station never sleeps, and the peoples
of the world may be very sure that whatever they get up to, someone is
watching. And taking notes.
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