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In a new golden age of exploration, led by powerful, long-reaching Constitution class cruisers, the Federation’s frontier has grown faster than new Starbases could be put in place to support it. The Changmor-Skeck Depots are an affordable and fast solution to the problem and have begun dotting Federation’s perimeter.

Designed around the standardized cargo pods of the Ptolemy class, two tandem Ptolemy’s can port the components to a location and assemble them in under a week. The three habitat modules plug into a central comm/sensor hub with much of the systems integration being automated. As the frontier expands, these deep space installations should be able to be disassembled and relocated further out.

The C-S Depots serve as logistic support, supply resource, science station, communications relay, and of course reconnaissance. In addition to serving whatever craft are temporarily assigned duty to the sector, they usually have one or two dedicated small scouts which are assigned to them.

Pictured is Depot 37 – a typical C-S Depot. In addition to having a number of small craft at its docking arms, an Odin class light cruiser (the Taranis) hangs in space nearby as it’s executive staff beams aboard the depot for a consult/debrief meeting with the depot’s science staff.


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I’d been playing with this concept for a while and only now got this kitbash (the depot) in a form I thought was usable. The components going into this are almost too many to name, but it includes bits from talented modelers Greywolf-Starkiller, Stonemason, Coflek-Gnorg, Pgmeri01, and Valandar. The small scout and Odin class are by Kenny Mitchell, The Archer class scout mesh created by Mark Azevedo - www.3dmaz.com. Ship design by Masao Okazaki. Poser/DS conversion and enhancement by Ptrope w/ texture support by moi.

Background by Frostbo, DAZ Studio render.
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Have you seen this one yet? NewDivide1701 had a similar idea, and created "Mercy Point 7", seen here:

Mercy Point 7

I could see there being a ton of stations like this and Depot 37 scattered throughout the Federation's frontier areas, particularly where Starfleet needed a more permanent presence while a starbase was being built. Both would certainly do the job!