Jeju Station - 0001

From a distance, Jeju Station looks like the head of a flower. The petals though are a vast array of solar collectors whose most important function is to create an electromagnetic field to help protect the inhabitants from solar and cosmic radiation within the space station proper. Conceived, funded and built by a consortium of chaebol and western corporations it was established to mine and process minerals found in the belt. The surface of the central mass was the byproduct of this process. The slag from the separations was deposited and fused to the surface, in part as the secondary defence from radiation but also to absorb the impact of micrometeoroids - the supersonic space dust that is an ever-present risk.

The station itself is found in the interior of the central mass, 3 conjoined massive cylinders of over 4 kilometres in diameter. Each of the cylinders rotated around a central hub but the central larger cylinder carried a rotation opposite to the distal cylinders. The counter-rotations and masses that served to eliminate instabilities of rotation around the axis. The outermost areas closest to the periphery of the cylinders were compartments filled with water. In addition to the role of buffering against radiation, the water is pumped to load balance the structures within the station.

The station rotates at 1.13 rpm making the liveable levels ranging from 250 to 750 meters from the center with the optimal habitable zone at 700 meters. With a total length of the station being 1000 meters, the liveable area of the station is roughly 145 square kilometres (55 square miles).