Vir Interstellar Spaceport

Name: Vir Interstellar Spaceport (V.I.S.) Class: Orbital Spaceport Owner: Vir Governmental Authority Parent Body: Vir - Sif Purpose: Refuelling - Planetary logistics - Refitting/Repairs - Trading - Passenger terminal

The Vir Interstellar Spaceport is a large facility in orbit of the planet Sif which handles the loading and unloading, refuelling, and general maintenance of large spacecraft. The position of the spaceport allows it to function not only as a key node for transport inside the Vir system, especially to and from the planet Sif, but also as a key stopping point interstellar craft travelling via Vir which need refuelling. The station itself is mostly designed around its logistical and commercial needs, and although other strategically-placed nearby facilities owned by a mixture of corporations and entities may possess habitation space, the port itself is not designed to be a living habitat - its proximity to the surface of Sif makes transport of people and materials to and from the facility and the planet via shuttle extremely cost-efficient.

The main structure is owned by the Vir Governmental Authority, but individual offices, docking/loading bays, and warehouses are often leased to individuals or organisations.

Nanotrasen's Holdings

Like many other large transtellar corporations (as well as some of the comparatively smaller intra-stellar major players in Vir) NanoTrasen owns a small administrative office aboard the spaceport, as well as a number of docking bays, and uses it as a vital hub of communications and logistics to direct their in-system assets. During transfer and/or evacuation of the Northern Star, standard procedure states that the shuttles make a series of bluespace hops from the station's location in Kara's asteroid belt to the spaceport. Due to the distance of Kara from Sif, this generally takes several minutes.