PEn-NAM
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PEn-NAM | |
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| Corporation Profile | |
| Affiliation | Lyran Commonwealth |
| Headquarters | Viborg |
| Leadership | CEO |
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The Periphery Engineering and Northstar Asteroid Mining Consortium, or PEn-NAM for short, was a company involved in asteroid mining and zero-gravity manufacturing.
Overview[edit]
The Periphery Engineering and Northstar Asteroid Mining Consortium mining habitat, called PEn-NAM by the company but colloquially called "Penance" by its inhabitants, was a large space station combining habitat, refinery, and factory functions.[1] It was situated in the Viborg system, where an asteroid field spreading across only 40° of its orbit had taken the place of the fourth planet. This asteroid field was thought to be relatively young, around 20,000 years old, and to have been formed when an interloper planetoid overtook the fourth planet from behind and tore it apart. The rocks were dense enough for one centralized mining operation to monopolize the whole system. PEn-NAM was situated in or near the Viborg belt, "above" its plane.
The station was described as cylindrical, studded with radio towers, sensors, and structures and measuring well over a kilometer (implicitly much more). At least two structures thought by the observer to be small factories radiated from the (assumed) stern on slender pylons; one was a refinery. The other rounded end of the giant cylinder was a glass dome, apparently a hydroponics facility. Immediately behind the dome were two very large grav decks several stories high and rotating in opposite directions, and beyond these were at least six (twelve, if the layout is symmetrical) hangar doors large enough for DropShips and then several docking collars. There were also large automated warehouses, at least some of them unpressurized. PEn-NAM also featured a meteor defense system including several turreted laser batteries.[2]
Manufacturing[edit]
PEn-NAM has manufacturing centers on the following planets:
Viborg[edit]
| Components produced on Viborg:[3] | |
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| Component | Used In |
| Geometrically Perfect Crystals[3] | Laser weapons[3] |
| High-Density Ceramic Fiber[3] | Ferro-Fibrous armor[3] |