Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Maxient (section)

===Command Post Maxient===

Something of a misnomer, since whatever compartment the presiding officer of the station is in is the command post, this huge control zone still serves as the principal dispatch and coordination hub of the entire station.  At one point, the highest deck had an armored bubble that allowed exterior views, but it has long since been swallowed up by the growing station.  Now, it is deep inside its armored bulk.  Here, there are many dozens of control terminals, each manned by Navy officers, which report the status of the many expansions and blocks of the Port.  In times of war, defense command protocols take over, and the Admiral commands all Naval weapons and counter-boarders from there.  In the case of the imminent loss of the station, the presiding officer can, theoretically, assume command of Mechanicus assets too, although no Admiral, technical leader of the station or not, has yet had the nerve.

Lower compartments of the huge deck contain the Defense Monitor coordination hub, which collects targeting telemetry from the ships that protect the station and relays it to targeting systems elsewhere on the station and in the fleet.  In other places, the semi-automated homing mines and torpedo target computers track objects not cleared by the patrol ships.  On lower decks yet, the flight bosses coordinate the launch and retrievals of fighters and bombers.  Firefighting and damage control efforts belong to the Adeptus Mechanicus, who rarely allow the Navy any insight into their protocols.