Pallas Station

Pallas

A Free Navy-held asteroid port whose defenses Pa destroys rather than its docks, leaving it under the threat of an improvised humanitarian blockade.

Story so far

Pallas Station is a populated asteroid station and port under Free Navy control, important enough to be targeted when the coalition's system-wide attack pulls Marco's mobile defenses away. Its surface carries PDCs, torpedoes, sensors, and deep-set jammers, while tens of thousands of civilians live behind the military installations.

Michio Pa's breakaway fleet attacks from four directions, initially intending to ram the empty Solano into the docks if the garrison will not surrender. The Free Navy jams her evacuation warning. Pa reverses the sacrifice plan, spends hours reducing every weapon and much of the station's sight, and leaves Solano stationed at the port with a warmed Epstein drive that can seal it off. Pallas is not liberated, but its governor Rosenfeld is forced to reckon with a blockade that gives him a chance to withdraw from Marco's wider war.

Appearance

A glittering inhabited asteroid station with dock levels, shipyards, hardened surface weapons, buried jammers, and industrial corridors embedded deep in rock.

Role

Pallas becomes Pa's test of whether an anti-Marco victory can avoid repeating the Free Navy's contempt for civilians.

Relationships

[[Michio Pa]] — Her decision to preserve the docks and civilians changes the assault into a riskier but more humane blockade.

[[Solano]] — The sacrificed ship becomes a stationary drive threat guarding its port instead of a ram that would destroy it.

[[Rosenfeld]] — As Free Navy governor within the station, he receives Pa's warning and political invitation to protect its people.

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Chapter 42

A Free Navy-held asteroid port whose defenses Pa destroys rather than its docks, leaving it under the threat of an improvised humanitarian blockade.