You've stumbled upon the Cheeto-stained archives of information for the various Goonstation editions of Space Station 13. Wikistation 13 is designed to be a hub for Goonstation players' reference needs – be it experienced players in need of a quick reference guide or new players in need of a helping hand through the traumatic first few games. Additionally, due to the Human-centric nature of the corporation running Space Station 13, Nanotrasen, only Humans are allowed to perform as Command staff. However, in times of need and understaffing, non-Humans may be promoted into these roles by the Head of Personnel or Captain. How the space race began. The opening salvo of the space race was the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on Oct. Government had already been planning to launch its own. Space Bird: Wear hats. Be the cool critter on the block with a headset slot. Screech over the radio. Peck the Wizard's (or the person who forcefed you feather fluid) eye out. Space goose: Honk to your heart's content. Migrate to another station when the Clown slips you out for taking his job. Space Timberdoodle: Scream.
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The Alpha Quadrant is one of four quadrants in the Milky Way. It is home to the Cardassian Union, the Ferengi Alliance and the United Federation of Planets.
Points of Interest[edit | edit source]
The Bajoran wormhole by Deep Space Nine is a strategic location in the quadrant
The Alpha Quadrant has significant influence from the powers in the Beta Quadrant to the extent the Klingons and Romulans have been referred to as Alpha Quadrant powers. The interest in the sector is largely around the presence of the Bajoran wormhole and the station by it, Deep Space Nine.
The quadrant is also known to contain examples of shocking interstellar beauty and scientific wonder such as the Argolis Cluster, the Arachnid Nebula, and the Badlands.
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| Bajor | Bajor Sector | Alternate player hub at Hathon |
| Bajoran wormhole | Bajor Sector | Travel to the Gamma Quadrant |
| Badlands | Cardassia Sector | Badlands Battlezone |
| Betreka Nebula | Betazed Sector | Duty Officer Node |
| Deep Space Nine | Bajor Sector | Primary player hub for the quadrant |
| Defera | Defera Sector | Deferi Battlezone |
| Fleet Colony World | Antos Sector | Fleet holding |
| Fleet Dilithium Mine | Bajor Sector | Fleet holding |
| Fleet Station K-13 | Draconis Sector | Fleet holding |
| Rolor Nebula | Defera Sector | Duty Officer Node |
| Gon'Cra Nebula | Gon'Cra Sector | Tzenkethi Battlezone |
| Vlugta Asteroid Field | Bajor Sector | Dilithium Mining |
| Zenas Expanse | Arawath Sector | Duty Officer Node |
Playable Area[edit | edit source]
The old Alpha Quadrant, before it was expanded in Season 12
- See also Sector space
The Alpha Quadrant is one of the two largest playable quadrants in Star Trek Online, but it still covers only a fraction of the overall quadrant. As of Season 12, it covers 35 sectors including much of the Federation's Alpha Quadrant members along with most of Cardassian and Ferengi space, as well as sections of Breen space.
Before the release of Season 10, Alpha Quadrant was divided into four sector blocks: Zeta Andromedae, Beta Ursae, Alpha Trianguli and Orellius. With Season 10, all sector blocks were merged into a single unit and expanded. With Season 12, more sectors were added further towards the galactic core, and few of the previously existing sectors and planets were moved into the expanded area.
List of Sectors[edit | edit source]
- For details, see List of Sectors and Systems.
Factions and Homeworlds[edit | edit source]
Space Station 13 Races Near Me
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| Atosee Prime | Atosees |
| Bajor | Bajorans | United Federation of Planets |
| Betazed | Betazoids | United Federation of Planets |
| Breen (planet) | Breen | Breen Confederacy |
| Cait | Caitians | United Federation of Planets |
| Capella IV | Capellans | United Federation of Planets |
| Cardassia Prime | Cardassians | Cardassian Union/True Way |
| Defera | Deferi | Deferi |
| Delta IV | Deltans | United Federation of Planets |
| Denobula | Denobulans | United Federation of Planets |
| 20 Draconis b | Draconian |
| Eohki homeworld | Eohki |
| Ferasa | Ferasans | Klingon Empire |
| Ferenginar | Ferengi | Ferengi Alliance |
| Fesarius | First Federation |
| New Kentar | Kentari | Kentari Union |
| Lukar | Lukari | Lukari Concordium |
| Luria | Lurian | n/a |
| Na'kuhl | Na'kuhl | Na'kuhl |
| Pakled | Pakled | United Federation of Planets |
| Povin | Povini | n/a |
| Sauria | Saurians | United Federation of Planets |
| Tellar Prime | Tellarites | United Federation of Planets |
| Trill (planet) | Trill | United Federation of Planets |
| Tzenketh | Tzenkethi | Tzenkethi Coalition |
Space Station 13 Races 2017
External links[edit | edit source]
- Alpha Quadrant at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki.
- Alpha Quadrant at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek Wiki.
- Alpha Quadrant at Starbase UGC, the user-generated-content Wiki for STO.
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Buran M-42 Russian intercontinental cruise missile. Cancelled 1957. Several variants of the Myasishchev Buran trisonic intercontinental ... Australia Australia France France Barre French rocket pioneer and space visionary, who developed the EA-1941 rocket in France before work was interrupted ... Soyuz 7K-S Russian manned spacecraft. The Soyuz 7K-S had its genesis in military Soyuz designs of the 1960's. Launched 1974 ... R-9 ICBM developed by Korolev OKB using liquid oxygen/kerosene propellants. The Soviet military favored storable propellants ... R-36M The super-heavy Ukrainian R-36M ICBM replaced the R-36 in 288 existing silos and was additionally installed in ... Trident American submarine-launched ballistic missile. US Navy submarine-launched ballistic missiles, which superseded ... Temp-2S Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. World's first operational mobile ICBM. Deployed in great secrecy in ... DS The DS ('Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik') small satellite bus was developed by Yangel's OKB-586 / KB Yuzhnoye in the Ukraine ... Tiangong Chinese man-tended space laboratory. A series of three of these laboratories were to visited by a series of Shenzhou ... Rombus American SSTO VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Bono original design for ballistic single-stage-to-orbit (not quite ... NASA's Lost Boilerplate - The Story of BP-1227 In 2002 the Encyclopedia Astronautica uncovered the forgotten story of the recovery of an Apollo capsule by ... Trident D-5 American intercontinental range, submarine-launched ballistic missile. Deployed March 1990 aboard the new Ohio-class ... Cost, Price, and the Whole Darn Thing Why the cost of a space launch vehicle has little if any relation to the launch price. Spacehab American manned space station module. Spacehab, Inc was founded by Bob Citron in 1982 in Houston. It was the only ... Space Station Freedom American manned space station. Design as of 1988. NASA's first detailed cost assessment for the US space station ... Winged Gemini American manned spaceplane. Study 1966. Winged Gemini was the most radical modification of the basic Gemini reentry ... A7L ILC Dover spacesuit used for the Apollo and Skylab programs, operational 1968. Hamilton Standard had overall development ... THAAD American anti-ballistic missile. Theatre High-Altitude Air Defense. SDIO/BMDO project. Single stage vehicle. Redstone Redstone was the first large liquid rocket developed in the US using German V-2 technology. Originally designated ... Saturn IB American orbital launch vehicle. Improved Saturn I, with uprated first stage and Saturn IVB second stage (common ... RS-XXX Rocketdyne LOx/LH2 rocket engine. Design concept -2004. New high-thrust cryogenic engine concept for Next Generation ... HL-20 American manned spaceplane. The HL-20 was a 1988 NASA Langley design for a manned spaceplane as a backup to the ... RL-10B-2 Pratt and Whitney LOx/LH2 rocket engine. In production. Used on Delta 3 , Delta IV launch vehicles. First flight ... Jules Verne Moon Gun French gun-launched orbital launch vehicle. Jules Verne's moon gun, as described in his 1865 novel From the ... Gemini 3 First spacecraft to maneuver in orbit. First manned flight of Gemini spacecraft. First American to fly twice into ... Molniya-1 Russian military communications satellite. This was the first Soviet communications satellite. Communication satellite ... Star-raker American winged orbital launch vehicle. Rockwell International's Star-raker was an enormous 1979 heavy-lift ramjet/rocket ... Atlas V American orbital launch vehicle. The Atlas V launch vehicle system was a completely new design that succeeded ... ISS International Space Station. Development from 1994. Assembled in orbit over 13 years, 1998-2011. To be operated ... F-1 Rocketdyne LOx/Kerosene rocket engine. Largest liquid rocket engine ever developed and flown. Severe combustion ... Olivas American engineer mission specialist astronaut 1998-2010. AJ-260-2 Aerojet solid rocket engine. 260 inch solid rocket booster half length. The version tested and also proposed for ... Von Braun Lunar Lander American manned lunar lander. Study 1952. Von Braun's first lunar lander design was an immense spacecraft, larger ... Babylon Gun From March of 1988 until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: ... Gemini 8 First docking of two spacecraft. After docking with Agena target, a stuck thruster aboard Gemini resulted in the ... Suborbital Cabin Russian manned spacecraft. In 1956 Korolev laid out an outline plan 'Fast Solutions for the Conquest of Space'. ... Axster German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter. Bio-Suit American space suit, study of 2001. Novel approach that used biomedical breakthroughs in skin replacement and ... Vanguard American orbital launch vehicle. Vanguard was the 'civilian' vehicle developed by the US Navy to launch America's ... Gemini 9 Third rendezvous mission of Gemini program. Agena target blew up on way to orbit; substitute target's shroud hung ... Mercury Space Suit American space suit, operational 1960. The Mercury spacesuit was a custom-fitted, modified version of the Goodrich ... Apollo 9 First manned test of the Lunar Module. First test of the Apollo space suits. First manned flight of a spacecraft ... Paris Gun German gun-launched missile. The Paris Gun of World War I could hurl a 120 kg shell with 7 kg of explosive to ... Apollo Martin 410 American manned lunar lander. Study 1961. The Model 410 was Martin's preferred design for the Apollo spacecraft. RD-170 Glushko LOx/Kerosene rocket engine. Energia strap-on. Developed 1973-1985. First flight 1987. Used one-plane gimballing ... Kliper Russian manned spaceplane. Study 2004. The Kliper manned spacecraft replacement for Soyuz was first announced ... Baikonur Russia's largest cosmodrome, the only one used for manned launches and with facilities for the larger Proton, ... von Braun concept vehicle In 1948, with the US Army's V-2 test project winding down, Wernher Von Braun was ensconced in isolated Fort Bliss. ... New Shepard American manned spacecraft. Flight tests begun 2006. Vertical takeoff/vertical landing suborbital tourist spacecraft ... Apollo 8 First manned flight to lunar orbit. Speed (10,807 m/s) and altitude (378,504 km) records. Mission resulted from ... A-4b German intermediate range boost-glide missile. Winged version of the V-2 missile with over double the range. Two ... Gemini 7 Record flight duration (14 days) to that date. Incredibly boring mission, made more uncomfortable by the extensive ... Shepard American test pilot astronaut 1959-1974. First American in space. Grounded on medical grounds during Gemini, but ... The Nedelin Catastrophe James Oberg's classic account of the greatest disaster in space history. J-2 Rocketdyne LOx/LH2 rocket engine. Used in the Saturn IVB stage in Saturn IB and Saturn V, and the Saturn II stage ... X-33 American winged rocketplane. NASA-sponsored suborbital unmanned prototype for a single-stage-to-orbit rocketplane. ... X-15A-2 American manned spaceplane. The crash-damaged X-15 number 2 was rebuilt to attain even higher speeds. The body ... Megaroc In December 1946 R A Smith proposed launch of a British pilot into space atop a heavily modified V-2. The proposal ... A9/A10/A11/A12 German orbital launch vehicle. The A12 has been named as the designation for a true orbital launch vehicle, as ... Orion CEV The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) was NASA's manned spacecraft for the 21st Century, a throwback to the ... Cape Canaveral America's largest launch center, used for all manned launches. Today only six of the 40 launch complexes built ... Atlas V Heavy American orbital launch vehicle. Heavy-lift version of the Atlas V launch vehicle system with three parallel 3.8-m-diameter ... Mercury American single-crew manned spacecraft. Mercury was America's first man-in-space project, but ran second in the ... Escafandra Estratonautica Spanish pressure suit. Spanish Colonel Don Emilio Herrera Linares designed and built a full pressure suit in 1935, ... orbital launch vehicle Category of launch vehicles. SASSTO American SSTO VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Bono proposal for first step toward VTOVL SSTO vehicle - heavily modified ... UR-900 Russian heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. In 1962 Vladimir Chelomei proposed a family of modular launch vehicles. ... Apollo 16 Second Apollo mission with lunar rover. CSM main engine failure detected in lunar orbit. Landing almost aborted. Salyut 1 Russian manned space station. Salyut 1 was the first DOS long duration orbital station, an Almaz spaceframe modified ... Navstar The Navstar GPS (Global Positioning System) program was a joint service effort directed by the United States Department ... X-15B American manned spacecraft. Study 1958. North American's proposal for the Air Force initial manned space project ... Blackstar American manned spaceplane. 2006 reports claimed it was flown covertly in the 1990s. If so, it may have derived ... Saturn C-8 American orbital launch vehicle. The largest member of the Saturn family ever contemplated. Designed for direct ... Atlas D American intercontinental ballistic missile. Rocket used both as a space launcher and ICBM. Gemini 12 First completely successful space walk. Final Gemini flight. Docked and redocked with Agena, demonstrating various ... Sea Horse American sea-launched test vehicle. The second phase of Sea Launch was to demonstrate the concept on a larger ... Saturn V-4X(U) American orbital launch vehicle. Boeing study, 1968. Four core vehicles from Saturn V-25(S) study lashed together ... Minuteman 3 American four-stage solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile. In the 21st Century, the sole remaining ... Newton's Orbital Cannon British gun-launched orbital launch vehicle. Isaac Newton discussed the use of a cannon to attain orbit in 1687 ... Soyuz TMA Russian three-crew manned spacecraft. Designed for use as a lifeboat for the International Space Station. After ... DC-X The Space Defense Initiative Office's Single Stage Rocket Technology program of 1990-1995 demonstrated technology ... R-4D Marquardt N2O4/MMH rocket engine. Developed as attitude control thruster for the Apollo Service and Lunar Modules ... MON/MMH MON/MMH propellant. No rocket engines went into production using this propellant combination. UR-700M Russian heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. In 1969 the Soviet Union began project Aelita, studying the best method ... Almaz OPS Russian manned space station. Vladimir Chelomei's Almaz OPS was the only manned military space station ever actually ... MOOSE American manned rescue spacecraft. Study 1963. MOOSE was perhaps the most celebrated bail-out from orbit system ... Vandenberg Vandenberg Air Force Base is located on the Central Coast of California about 240 km northwest of Los Angeles. ... Tikhonravov Suborbital Soviet space pioneer Tikhonravov proposed a V-2-launched manned capsule to Stalin in June 1946. Had his plan been ... Jupiter IRBM American intermediate range ballistic missile. The Jupiter IRBM was developed for the US Army. By the time development ... Gemini 6 First rendezvous of two spacecraft. Originally was to dock with an Agena target, but this blew up on way to orbit. ... Atlas LV-3B / Mercury American orbital launch vehicle. Atlas D modified for use in Project Mercury. Von Braun 1952 German winged orbital launch vehicle. Von Braun's 1952 design for a reusable space launcher used the same mass ... RL-10 Pratt and Whitney LOx/LH2 rocket engine family. First flight 1961. Originally planned for use in Centaur upper ... Black Brant The Black Brant originated in a 1957 Canadian government requirement for a sounding rocket to characterize the ... Apollo 10 Final dress rehearsal in lunar orbit for landing on moon. LM separated and descended to 10 km from surface of ... Mir-2 Russian manned space station. Study 1989. The Mir-2 space station was originally authorized in the February 1976 ... F-1A Rocketdyne LOx/Kerosene rocket engine design of 1968. Improved version of the F-1, which would have been used ... Rockoon American air-launched sounding rocket. The Rockoon (balloon-launched rocket) consisted of a small high-performance ... IMIS 1968 American manned Mars expedition. Study 1968. In January 1968 Boeing issued a report that was the result of a 14 ... MiG 105-11 Russian manned spaceplane. 8 launches, 1976.10.11 to 1978.09.15 . Atmospheric flight test version of the Spiral ... Gemini 5 First American flight to seize duration record from Soviet Union. Mission plan curtailed due to fuel cell problems; ... M-1 Aerojet LOx/LH2 rocket engine. Study 1961. Engine developed 1962-1966 for Uprated Saturn and Nova million-pound ... Saturn C-5N American nuclear orbital launch vehicle. Version of Saturn C-5 considered with small nuclear thermal stage in ... Project Orion: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth 20,000 tonne Mars Expeditions Using Atom Bomb Propulsion - We could have sent whole cities there by 1970 - the ... Saenger II Proposed two stage to orbit vehicle. Air-breathing hypersonic first stage and delta wing second stage. The German ... Apollo 14 Third manned lunar landing. Only Mercury astronaut to reach moon. Five attempts to dock the command module with ... Sprint ABM Nuclear-armed point defense anti-ballistic missile, an incredible high-acceleration weapon that would intercept ... Aerobee American sounding rocket. In late 1945 James Van Allen was assigned by John Hopkins University to survey sounding ... Titan I American intercontinental ballistic missile. ICBM, built as back-up to Atlas, using two stages instead of one ... Komarov Russian pilot cosmonaut 1960-1967. First person to die during spaceflight when the parachute lines of Soyuz 1 ... Titan IIIE American orbital launch vehicle. Titan 3D with Centaur D-1T upper stage. Used by NASA for deep space missions ... Hyperion SSTO American sled-launched SSTO VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Study 1966. Yet another of Philip Bono's single-stage-to-orbit ... Voskhod 2 First space walk. Speed and altitude records. A disaster: astronaut unable to reenter airlock due to spacesuit ... Resnik American engineer mission specialist astronaut 1978-1986. Engineer. Died in Challenger accident. RS-68 Rocketdyne LOx/LH2 rocket engine. In production. First new large liquid-fueled rocket engine developed in America ... LFV North American American manned lunar flyer. Cancelled 1969. The North American design for a Lunar Flying Vehicle would have taken ... von Braun German-American chief designer, leader of the 'Rocket Team'; developed the V-2, Redstone, Jupiter, and the Saturn ... TMK-1 Russian manned Mars flyby. Study 1959. In 1959 a group of enthusiasts in OKB-1 Section 3 under the management ... XLR99 Reaction Motors Lox/Ammonia rocket engine. Out of production. The first large, man-rated, throttleable, restartable ... Draeger Suit German pressure suit, developed 1935-1945. Draeger-Werke developed a hard shell full pressure suit for the Nazi ... Gemini 4 First American space walk. First American long-duration spaceflight. Astronaut could barely get back into capsule ... Gemini Technical Description Gemini System Details Apollo (ASTP) First international joint manned space mission; first docking between two spacecraft launched from different countries. ... Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Spacecraft American manned lunar lander. Study 1966. This version of Gemini would allow a direct manned lunar landing mission ... Seabee American sea-launched test vehicle. Seabee was a brief proof of principle program to validate the sea-launch concept ... Falcon 9 American low cost orbital launch vehicle. In September 2006 SpaceX was named as one of two winners of the NASA ... Gagarin Russian pilot cosmonaut 1960-1968. First person in space. Due to his fame, the Soviet leadership did not want ... BIS Lunar Lander British manned lunar lander. Study 1939. Design of the British Interplanetary Society's BIS Spaceship began in ... Black Arrow British orbital launch vehicle. Britain's only indigenous launch vehicle. Following cancellation of the project ... Ilyushin Russian test pilot. Most tangible phantom cosmonaut, purported first man in orbit according to French press report ... Delta 4H American orbital launch vehicle. Heavy lift all-cryogenic launch vehicle using two Delta-4 core vehicles as first ... J-2S Rocketdyne LOx/LH2 rocket engine. Developed 1965-1969. J-2 version proposed for Saturn follow-on vehicles, using ... Vostok 6 Joint flight with Vostok 5. First woman in space. Tereshkova did not reply during several communications sessions. ... Hughes-Fulford American biologist payload specialist astronaut 1984-1991. Biochemist. US Army Nexus American SSTO VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Early 1960's recoverable launch vehicle proposed by Krafft Ehricke ... X-38 American manned spaceplane. Lifting body reentry vehicle designed as emergency return spacecraft for International ... Plesetsk Plesetsk was the Soviet Union's northern cosmodrome, used for polar orbit launches of mainly military satellites, ... MK-700 Russian manned Mars flyby. Study 1972. Chelomei was the only Chief Designer to complete an Aelita draft project ... Kvant Russian manned space station module. Kvant 1). The Kvant spacecraft represented the first use of a new kind of ... German Rocketplanes German manned rocketplane family. Taming the Fire The story of the making of the 1972 Soviet film that took viewers inside the life of Sergei Korolev and the Baikonur ... R-14 Ukrainian intermediate range ballistic missile. The R-14, with a range of 3600 km, was the only missile of that ... V-1000 Russian anti-ballistic missile. First Soviet anti-ballistic missile system. Development began in 1956 and the ... Cuxhaven As the only site in Germany with an unrestricted over-water firing sector over the North Sea, Cuxhaven was once ... Ariane First successful European commercial launch vehicle, developed from the L3S, an Europa launch vehicle replacement ... Mars 5NM Russian Mars lander. Cancelled 1974. The 5NM was the first attempt by the Lavochkin bureau to design and fly a ... Soviets Recovered an Apollo Capsule! - 2008 version In 2002 this web site broke the story that the Soviet Union had recovered an Apollo capsule in 1969 and returned ... R-3 Korolev 3000 km range intermediate range ballistic missile. Developed April 1947 to 1949 before cancellation. White Sands White Sands Missile Range occupies an area 160 x 65 km in the Tularosa Basin of southern New Mexico, across the ...