Station

Stations are built in space to provide living space for humans, and are specialized to produce certain goods. Ships can dock at them, allowing access to the station services. Station services include accepting missions, buying new ships or outfitting for ships, clearing and collecting bounty, paying fines, refuelling, repairs, trading (legally and illegally). They are also equipped with their own defence systems in place to deal with criminals and smugglers. Station defences are very powerful and can destroy a medium size ship (Hauler, Cobra) in a matter of seconds.

These structures rotate to provide centrifugal force simulating the pull of gravity. The exterior appearance of a station is an accurate depiction of its specialized economic output, although there are several variants of each model. For example, towns and farms are clearly visible in agricultural hubs, or Orbis models.

Not all stations may offer all services.

Docking

Main article: Docking

To dock with a station, pilots must first request docking permissions by accessing the navigational terminal's "Contacts" tab. Pilots farther than 7,500m from a station will be automatically denied access and asked to approach to said distance first. In heavily populated or lagging instances, all ports may be occupied and a permit will be denied. Once granted, the pilot will be assigned a landing pad number to approach and land on. If the pilot does not land within the allotted time slot [usually 10 minutes], the pilot will have to exit the station and request additional permissions. Attempting to dock without permissions will trigger a lethal response within 60 seconds. This includes docking with the incorrect landing platform.

If docking control responds with a generic "docking request denied" message, then it's likely all landing pads are occupied. One can circumvent this by logging out of the open play and into solo play will usually fix this. Once docked, you can switch back to open play.

Upon undocking from your landing platform, you will have 5 minutes to exit the station before you are considered a loiterer and a 60-second hostility timer begins.

To either side of the docking port are lights coloured green and red. Pilots should approach on the side with the green lights to reduce the chance of a collision.

Ship Storage

Players can purchase and store additional ships at each station and switch freely between them when docked. These can be accessed from the shipyard section of the starport services screen.

No Fire Zone

All stations have an area surrounding them designated a no fire zone. You are notified each time your ship enters and exits this area. You will also receive a message when your ship enters this zone to retract your weapons, should they be deployed at the time. Station defences will activate and open fire on your ship if you should fire any of your weapons within the no fire zone or you will be fined. Using any scanner within the no fire zone is perfectly legitimate and legal.

Dumping any cargo within the no fire zone will get you fined.

Travelling faster than 100 m/s in a no fire zone will give you a reckless flying fine if you are in a collision with another ship, however this does not apply for speeds under 100 m/s. If a collision, no matter the speed, results in a ship being destroyed you will be charged for murder and have the station open fire on you.

Types

Coriolis File:CoriolisStation 001.jpg	Landing Pads	Small	15
		Medium	18
		Large	9
	Rotation Time		90 sec. (89.714 exactly)
	Gravity (G)		0.1
	Dimensions (KM)		2 km in Diameter
Orbis File:OrbisStation 001.jpg	Landing Pads	Small	15
		Medium	18
		Large	9
	Rotation Time		90 sec.
	Gravity (G)		Docks : 0.1 Middle Ring : 0.5 Outer Ring : 1.0
	Dimensions (KM)		Big Torus is 4 km in Diameter Small Torus is 2 km in Diameter
Ocellus File:OcellusStation 001.jpg	Landing Pads	Small
		Medium
		Large
	Rotation Time		90 sec.
	Gravity (G)		Docks : 0.1
	Dimensions (KM)
Outpost File:Outpost 001.jpg	Landing Pads	Small	2(civil) / 4 (industrial)
		Medium	1
		Large	0
	Rotation Time		N/A
	Gravity (G)
	Dimensions (KM)
Asteroid File:Asteroid station.jpg	Landing Pads	Small
		Medium
		Large
	Rotation Time
	Gravity (G)
	Dimensions (KM)
	This station type is not yet present in Elite:Dangerous.

See Also

• Category:Stations - automatically populating list of documented stations
• Influence - Information about faction ownership of stations