Original Upload Date - Thursday, September 19, 2024

The weather conditioning satellite that is both the workplace and the home-away-from-home of my ocs.

The WCS has a live-in crew that usually is around 100 strong, even if my story only focuses on a small handful of the crew members.

For a simple breakdown:

• The five outermost spheres house the satellite's radars and heat rays
• The middle ring is mainly living and recreational space for the staff
• The central star is where most of the actual work gets done. (It's the largest by area, containing machinery rooms, offices, the cafeteria, the medbay, and the main spaceship hangar for transport to and from the WCS.)

The WCS orbits Keron in a polar orbit, meaning that its flight path crosses over both the South and North poles in one cycle. As the planet underneath rotates on its axis, the satellite is able to pass over new regions of land each time, without ever having to deviate from its path.

Aside from the orbiting satellite, there is also a network of weather monitoring stations on the planet's surface that record local atmospheric data to send to the satellite. The WCS crew use this data to plan out their movements, and in turn they send their plans to the stations below. These monitoring stations can range in size from a large, multi-floor research building, all the way down to a one-room shed staffed by volunteers.