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** It came back briefly in the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'', when someone tried to use it to fire at Vong worldships but missed and hit some allies. And then they refused to use it again.
** A considerable part of ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' is about the Corellians, trying to secede from the Galactic Federation of Free Worlds, commanding Centerpoint Station, which was destroyed eventually.
*** ...which [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|might have been a mistake]], since in ''[[Fateofthe Jedi]]'' it appears to have caged an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. Making Centerpoint a combination of superweapon, [[Sealed Evil in A Can|can of evil]], and place for a few thousand people to live and grow food.
* The 1950's sci-fi juvenile ''Islands in the Sky'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]] is about a teenager who wins a trip to the Inner Station, a manned satellite in low-earth orbit used for repairing and refueling spacecraft. Clarke was famous for predicting the use of artifical satellites for telecommunication (though his were manned).
* Several space stations are featured in ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]''. The one that gets focused upon most often is HMSS ''Hephaestus'', a massive space station that is also the primary dockyard for the Royal Manticoran Navy.
** Most of the third book, ''The Short Victorious War'', centers around Hancock Station, and the defense of it during the opening hours of the First Haven-Manticore War.
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*** Plus Spacestation K-7, which had a problem with Tribbles...
* [[MST3K|The Satellite of Love]]
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* ''Destination Space'' (1959). Pilot for a TV series that was never taken up. Involved a space station damaged by a meteorite and efforts to send a rescue mission.
* ''Earth II'' (1971). Another pilot for a never-filmed TV series about life on a large space station. The cast was led by Gary Lockwood of ''2001'' fame. The plot involved efforts to stop a nuclear weapon launched by the Chinese from reaching the station.
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** The first [[Expansion Pack]] adds starbases, which can be built anywhere, not just in orbit of your planets. The Vasari starbases can even move around the area but lack [[Faster Than Light Travel|phase drives]]. The starbases can be customized through modules, which can turn them into fortresses, trade hubs, or hangars for huge waves of fighters.
* The first two acts of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II: The Sith Lords'' take place on two different space stations. Peragus was an asteroid facility, so it may or may not count. The Star Forge from the first game, however, definitely does.
* The orbiting space station in ''[[Cortex Command]]'', called a "Trade Star", plays a central part in the action. From this [[
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' features two Space Stations as important plot locations. The Citadel is the seat of the Galactic government and generally has an [[Ascetic Aesthetic]], Star Trek look (until you get to the Wards) while Omega is a [[Wretched Hive]] with Cyberpunk [[Used Future]] themes. A number of less important stations crop up in sidequests.
** Omega is an asteroid base, though, so it may not count.
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** The fleets of the Systems Alliance (human government) are headquartered on the Arcturus space station. Unfortunately, it's one of the first targets of the Reapers in ''Mass Effect 3''. All you find is the debris field.
* Comet Observatory from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]''.
* The GDSS ''Philadelphia'' from the [[Command and Conquer Tiberium]] series is [[The Federation|GDI]]'s heavily defended orbiting command center, from which they run all of their operations of Earth. Until [[Big Bad|Kane]] [[Nuke
* The game ''[[Startopia]]'' is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|revolved]] around restoring abandoned spinning wheel-shaped stations. Strangely enough, all space stations in the galaxy appear to have the exact same design. The stations have 3 decks: engineering, pleasure, and bio. Biodeck is the innermost one and uses "nanosoil" to recreate any planetary environment to the point where you can actually grow plants in it. The pleasure deck is all for the entertainment of tourists and employees. The engineering deck (outermost) includes power stations, factories, docks, security stations, communicators, sick bays, sleeping pods, bathrooms, etc.
* ''[[Star Trek Elite Force|Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]'' has several space stations, including the Forge and one made up of various ships trapped there welded together. One of the ships making up the latter is a ''Constitution''-class starship from the [[Mirror Universe]]. Fans of TOS get a nostalgia fix walking through the halls of the ship, albeit with the [[The Empire|Terran Empire]] logo on all doors.
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