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The basic structure of the station is a sphere the size of a average moon, with a kilometer-wide trench with a length of 503 kilometers, containing the majority of the station's training centers, docking bays, supply posts, storage bays, drive thrusters, sensor arrays, and tractor beam systems along the equator. Halfway between the equator and north pole are two supplementary trenches, which hold emergency docking bays, secondary storage posts, and some emergency tractor beam systems.
The station is roughly 160 km (99 miles) in diameter. It was originally intended to be 120 km (75 miles) in diameter, but this was modified before the first stages of construction began.
The Orange Star is divided into two hemispheres, each subdivided into 12 bridge-controlled zones. Each zone is led by a zone captain. To further organize the station's immense activity, sectors for certain activities have been designated within each zone. The sectors are Command, Military and Security, Technical and Ship Service, and Civilian Service. Each sector is led by a local officer, who answers to his respectful zone captain. The northern hemisphere holds the main armament of the station, which serves as both a offensive and defensive weapon, a fearsome superlaser. This weapon has the external appearance of a bowl several kilometers wide. When activated, eight separate beams are each intiated by a crystal through the Particle accelerator tubes, amplified through rings, and conjoined to form one of eight separate beams that will focus outside the dish, focusing into a point to form a single incredibly powerful superlaser beam. The superlaser has adjustable power settings, with different levels allowing the destruction and creation of all types of moons, planets, and suns, and the destruction of all types of ships and other spacecraft. Blasts with the power to destroy all types of ships and smaller spacecraft and destroy/create all types of moons require a recharge rate of 5 minutes, 30 minutes of recharge time to destroy and create all types of planets, and 1 hour of recharge time to destroy and create all types of suns.
The Orange Star comprises eighty-four separate internal levels, stacked south to north. A level is led by a level captain. Each level is divided into 257 sub-levels, each led by a local captain. A nominal number of levels are then stacked around the surface of the sphere, encompassing the inner stacked levels and sub-levels. Levels closest to the surface are oriented towards the Orange Star core, with inner levels oriented towards the South Pole.
Facilities include parks, spas, shops, holodecks, barracks, restaurants and liquor bars, and other amenities for the Human/Alien crew, as well as numerous maintenance necessities such as trash compactors, like Garbage Compactor 3263827, or air conditioning vents, such as Vent 18728. The entire hull of the planetoid is covered in quadanium steel, painted with nearly impenetrable dark orange. This steel alone is strong enough to resist phasers, quantum torpedoes, photon torpedoes, and proton torpedoes.
The station also bears two sub-light engines in the core, which allow regular space travel, as well a formidable hyper-drive system. Driven by 986 gigantic individual generators tied to one navigational matrix, the Class 0 hyper-drive is more then fast enough to allow the Orange Star to travel from Earth to Coruscant (a distance of over 100 dimensions, each dimension at least 130,000 light years wide) in only twenty minutes. It can cross whole galaxies in only two minutes. The incredible power harnessed by the station, as well it's great size, grants the Orange Star a series of magnetic and artificial gravitational fields similar to those of Jupiter's. All engineers working near the highly radioactive engines are forced to wear radiation suits in order to keep harmful exposure to a minimum.
Near the northern pole, a hundred meter tower was constructed and is shielded to near impenetrability for the Emperor to use as personal quarters while on board. Operational command of the space station takes place from the over-bridge, which includes the conference room.
At any given time, around 1.4 billion personnel and passengers (excluding visitors, androids, and children) are on the station.