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A poster depicting the crew station, the Core and the first two asteroids the coilgun accelerator is attached to. There are hundreds of such asteroids, though.
Ablation thrusters of the emergency evasion system, RCS blocks and the four massive compensator nozzles can all be seen here.
The personnel station, 4km in diameter, Core's red radiator in the background. Roughly 1500 people can live here permanently and in relative comfort.
Ditto, from below.
Indeed, one can view the Epiphany project as a tool of deterrence.
Neat fact: the total mass of the installation, counting the anchor asteroids, would be on the order of 10¹⁵ kg - comparable to all infrastructure ever built on Earth by humans.
The scale of even the personnel station can be hard to grasp. Well, here are its windows, and each is about a meter tall.
Somewhere here the RKV shells are assembled, stored and launched. Scattered around are the ablation thrusters and defense nodes. The funky dome houses the main antimatter reactor.
The Core station isn't glued to the accelerator and can detach from it. It's possible to have multiple accelerators facing different stars around one Core.
RCS and ablation evasion thrusters up close.
Evasion thruster sitting next to a defense node.
RKKV itself. 27 meters long, 100 tons, mainly synthetic diamond, tungsten and carbon. Possesses limited course correction capabilities.
Launch Facility's ingame parameters. The cost is in trillions.
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