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Ported to OBJ from the game stock model created by Mad Dog Software for the Star Trek Armada (STA, STA1+STA2) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Trading stations are exactly what the name says. They're space stations - usually civilian owned and operated but not always so - where space traders meet to set up shop and sell their wares to both each other and to any customers who might be visiting at the station. They also usually offer a variety of services to all of their visitors - rental shop space, short or long term lodging, rental hangar space for small craft and sometimes the smallest of proper starship types (rental docking ports for larger ones), restaurants and bars and such, various merchant services, various forms of paid entertainment and recreational pleasures (including sexual services when permitted), and so on. In other words they're a combination of shopping mall and permanent rotating trade show, with most also having their own equivalent of a small "red light district" (a-hem). This is usually the best place to either go or to start looking outside of a nearby major populated planet for any and all kinds of items, special or unique services, and so on in their part of space. Specialized starship parts and system components, foodstuffs, various merchant goods, rare merchandise, and in their seedier sections illicit and sometimes outright illegal wares and services are among the many things you can find at your nearest space trading station. They also usually make for good ports of call for mission-weary starship crews looking for a halfway decent place to take a little shore leave (wink). You will always find one of these in every major sector of a given interstellar power's domain and more often than not in minor sectors too, as well as at key planetary systems and other important interstellar "landmarks." That's useful information to know whenever you're out and cruising about for whatever reason.

This is a typical Klingon trading station in the TNG/DS9/VOY era. The design is an old one going all the way back to the TOS/TAS era and is basically a somewhat updated form of one even older than that. Some of the oldest Klingon trading stations that are still operational also date all the way back to the TOS/TAS era, albeit rebuilt and modified to varying degrees and with the same basic design copied and updated for later eras largely out of convenience. This is the most common form, although as already noted this also exists in variant and modified forms even though the same general design is still followed. Please consult additional sources for more information.

This is semi-canon, given its creation for a Franchise licensed video game series.

'IwlIj jachjaj!

NOTE - Most space trading stations are too small to have extensive repair facilities if that's what you need for your starship, unless it's a fairly small one. It's one of their drawbacks. For that kind of work you need other and more specialized space-based facilities.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the game stock model created by Mad Dog Software for the Star Trek Armada (STA, STA1+STA2) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Trading stations are exactly what the name says. They're space stations - usually civilian owned and operated but not always so - where space traders meet to set up shop and sell their wares to both each other and to any customers who might be visiting at the station. They also usually offer a variety of services to all of their visitors - rental shop space, short or long term lodging, rental hangar space for small craft and sometimes the smallest of proper starship types (rental docking ports for larger ones), restaurants and bars and such, various merchant services, various forms of paid entertainment and recreational pleasures (including sexual services when permitted), and so on. In other words they're a combination of shopping mall and permanent rotating trade show, with most also having their own equivalent of a small "red light district" (a-hem). This is usually the best place to either go or to start looking outside of a nearby major populated planet for any and all kinds of items, special or unique services, and so on in their part of space. Specialized starship parts and system components, foodstuffs, various merchant goods, rare merchandise, and in their seedier sections illicit and sometimes outright illegal wares and services are among the many things you can find at your nearest space trading station. They also usually make for good ports of call for mission-weary starship crews looking for a halfway decent place to take a little shore leave (wink). You will always find one of these in every major sector of a given interstellar power's domain and more often than not in minor sectors too, as well as at key planetary systems and other important interstellar "landmarks." That's useful information to know whenever you're out and cruising about for whatever reason.

This is a typical Klingon trading station in the TNG/DS9/VOY era. The design is an old one going all the way back to the TOS/TAS era and is basically a somewhat updated form of one even older than that. Some of the oldest Klingon trading stations that are still operational also date all the way back to the TOS/TAS era, albeit rebuilt and modified to varying degrees and with the same basic design copied and updated for later eras largely out of convenience. This is the most common form, although as already noted this also exists in variant and modified forms even though the same general design is still followed. Please consult additional sources for more information.

This is semi-canon, given its creation for a Franchise licensed video game series.

'IwlIj jachjaj!

NOTE - Most space trading stations are too small to have extensive repair facilities if that's what you need for your starship, unless it's a fairly small one. It's one of their drawbacks. For that kind of work you need other and more specialized space-based facilities.