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Maw-Class 700,000-Ton Refining-Smelting Station

A Mongoose 2e design. This large station is often seen in very busy asteroid belts where the owners purchase raw materials gathered by belters and refine and then smelt it. Even with 90,000 tons of cargo capacity for refined and smelted materials, it requires an in-system hauler to pick up its product about every five days. That ship also brings out supplies for the belters that the company sells at a markup. The belters complain about being ripped off on both the prices they get for the materials and how expensive the supplies are, but its still more cost effected to do business here than take the ore deeper into the system themselves.

The station has 50,000 tons of fuel tankage to service all its customers and it is refilled by a fleet of six 10,000-ton fuel shuttles that deliver 9,000 tons of refined fuel each. There is residential space for 3,000 people but that is allocated as daily hotel space for the visiting belters. Rest assured that the rooms are inspected before the guest's ship is allowed to leave.