Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Grand Anchor (section)

====The Assemblers====

Seventeen smaller deep voids orbit the cube.  They are roughly spherical and approximately half a kilometer in width, each.  Some are slightly larger, and partially hollow.  Each has its own life support system, its own power supply, and a copy of the datacore that keeps track of each of the hundreds of millions of components, wrecks, and parts that fill the Grand Anchor Scrapyards.  Clients who pass the background check may stay on these stations in remarkable comfort for as long as they wish, while the Grand Anchor crew labor to assemble or locate obscure parts and machines.  The stations serve as assembly points for clientele, and each can work independently of the others, or they can pool their resources.  Each station holds an array of long-range communication antennae, capable of broad- and precision-casting electronic signals across the whole Scrapyard.  From here, the Grand Anchor crews command the thousands of drones and servitors that search the stockpiles for parts, and command the labor-serfs that work in the larger spheres to assemble custom orders.  Each station has some defenses, but these are not battle stations, they are commerce platforms.