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Achenaar Antilles-Class 16,000,000-Ton Drop Jump Station

A Mongoose 2e design. The incredibly expensive Achenaar Antilles Drop Jump Station is designed and built in the Core sector to support the network of J6 hubs the company has put in place to get a stranglehold trade there. In the bustling hubs where they operate, the traffic is usually heavy enough to warrant more than one of them to support the company's traffic.

The station services the specially design Hercules-Class 1,000,000 J6 merchant tenders. The vessels have no on board jump fuel storage and are fed by the vast UNREP system on the station that can pump the required 3,270,000 tons of fuel aboard the ship in six minutes. The replaceable final segment of the piping is jettisoned and lost during jump initiation, but it is quickly replaced, and the station is ready to go again in 24 hours. The ship jumps from 120 station diameters, so no misjump danger to the ship.

It is serviced by a vast fleet of 10,000-ton fuel shuttles that are making continuous runs to the local gas giant (these stations are only in systems with gas giants because of their deep thirst for fuel) and 10,000 cargo shuttles to get the cargo off the pods and to the local economy when the cargo isn't merely being transshipped. It uses tens of thousands of cargo handling droids to move the cargo most efficiently.

As the round trip to the gas giant might take up to three weeks (depending on orbits and relative positions) there are a lot of these in use at any one time. While all of these elements are expensive, they mean Achenaar Antilles can move far more cargo than their competitors and take it further. They are the undisputed giant in shipping in the Core sector.