STARLAB is a city in the sky: a ring of glass and light where no nation's law runs and every hand is equal.
Its telescopes read the deep sky. Its weather eyes read the Earth, and warn the coasts days before a storm turns toward them.
A station is built by the people who build it, and it keeps their habits long after the ribbon is cut.
Requires SPACE FLIGHT.
Trade rises in every city you hold, and your science with it.
Its forecasts blunt the worst storms empire-wide: a CATASTROPHIC hurricane lands as a MAJOR one.
What is built depends on who builds it. A free, peaceful people breathing clean air raise the station they intended. A polluted despotism at war raises a free port instead: casinos, smugglers, and CORRUPTION in every city it holds.