Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Maxient (section)

===The Core===

The heart of the station’s mechanisms.  This series of central decks are all that remains of the original Xerxes III core machinery besides the Astropathic Temple Spire.  It sits at the middle of the six numbered bays added during primary construction.  Here, a gigantic thermo-plasmic reactor chugs, feeding power into the ever-expanding station.  It has been replaced again and again with more potent reactors over time as the draw has grown.  Eventually, a secondary reactor was added specifically for weapon systems, as there was simply no more way to grow the primary reactor without it being too large to maintain safely.

Elsewhere in the Core, the station’s chronically overtaxed life support systems cling to functionality.  While there is no immediate risk of their failure, the patchwork, hasty approach of the station’s growth has rendered the ventilation and sewage collection equipment grossly under-capacity for the task.  People in the poorer parts of the civilian-operated reaches of the stations have grown used to being unable to flush the toilets or drink clear water for days at a time while frantic Techpriests scramble to make repairs.  There is serious discussion among the less prestige-obsessed members of the Adeptus Mechanicus and Imperial Navy officer corps of sending requests for emergency aid to a non-Cloudburst authority for intervention before Magos Alexia and Admiral Caravel accidentally choke the station dead.