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[[File:HFB - SpaceStations.png|240px|thumb|A number of space station types.]]

A '''space station''' is a platform or facility built for use such as habitation, research or defense in a [[planet|planetary orbit]] or deep space. The term can also be applied to mobile facilities.

==Overview==
[[Human]] space stations were constructed across [[Sol system|Sol]] with the advent of [[Human colonies|interplanetary colonization]] in the late 21st century, followed by [[Human colonies|other star systems]] in humanity's subsequent interstellar era. By the 26th century, space stations had come to fill a broad range of roles as starship construction and docking facilities, heavily-armed defensive outposts, [[UNSC fleet|fleet]] support, even as colony habitats, in addition to their original primary role as science facilities.

==Types==
===Human===
During the [[Human-Covenant War]], [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III]] [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] fought on the "colony platforms" of the colony world [[Far-gone]]. It is unclear what the colony platforms consist of, but they may be space habitats.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HGOOC8|GOO|Chapter=8}}
*'''[[Munera Platform]]s''' - Orbital combat training and stations of the UNSC.
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File:TheArena.png|Concept art of Munera Platform A7
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*'''[[Orbital defense platform]]''' - A series of [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] planetary defense stations.
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File:H2A CairoStation Loadscreen.png|''[[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station]]'', a {{Class|Moncton|orbital weapon platform}}.
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*'''[[Refit station]]''' - [[UNSC starship|UNSC ship]] repair dock.
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File:Anchor 9.jpg|''[[Anchor 9]]'', a [[refit station]].
File:Cradle1.png|The ''[[UNSC Cradle]]'', a mobile refit station of alternative design. 
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*'''[[Remote scanning outpost]]''' - UNSC space stations designed to monitor in- and outbound slipspace traffic.
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File:Fermion.jpg|The RSO ''[[Fermion]]''.
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*'''Construction platforms and shipyards''' - The UNSC had construction platforms and shipyards in orbit of planets. Two examples are: the [[Reyes-McLees Shipyards]], a major UNSC ship construction facility over [[Mars]] and the [[Naval Yard AS-9]] over [[Reach]]. [[Station Delphi]], an abandoned construction platform over an icy [[Natural satellite|moon]].
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File:Construction platforms.jpg|[[UNSC construction platform|Modular starship construction and repair facilities]] utilized by the UNSC.
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*'''[[Asteroid]] bases''' - Human factions sometimes attach metal structures or hollow out asteroids to create stations.
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File:TFoR AS - Eridanus Secundus.jpg|[[Eridanus Secundus]], a hollowed-out asteroid converted into an [[Insurrectionist]] habitat.
File:H2A Terminals TheRubble.png|[[The Rubble]], an elaborate, independently-governed habitat in the [[23 Librae]] system constructed from a network of connected asteroids.
File:H4-IvanoffStation-ScanScreen.jpg|''[[Ivanoff Station]]'', an asteroid-based research facility near [[Installation 03]].
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*'''[[Space elevator]] terminus''' - Orbital elevators terminate in orbit with space stations. Some examples across human space are: [[Station Wayward Rest]], the terminal station of the [[Centennial Orbital Elevator]] and [[Tiara]], the terminal facility in orbit around [[Harvest]]
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File:H3 MP Orbital ENV-01.jpg|The [[Quito Terminus]], the termini of the [[Quito Space Tether]] in orbit over [[Earth]].
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*'''Unidentified station types''' - 
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File:Anvil blueprint.jpg|Blueprints to [[Anvil Station]], a training station for [[SPARTAN-IV]] supersoldiers and [[Swords of Sanghelios]] [[Sangheili]] in orbit over an unknown planet.
File:Anil Station.png|''Anvil Station''.
File:H2A Terminals - IoStation.jpg|''[[Io Station]]'', an outpost in the Sol System.
File:Torque-Station8.png|''[[Auriga Station]]''.
File:TFoR AS - Endurance.jpg|''[[Medical Facility Endurance]]'', an [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] medical station in Reach's orbit.
File:HI Lockhart station.jpg|''[[Lockhart medical station]]'', a UNSC medical facility.
File:Chiron TL-34.JPG|[[Chiron]], a UNSC platform over [[Mars]], housing a prominent extreme-conditions training facility.
File:Gamma Station.jpg|''[[Gamma Station]]'', a space dock in orbit around Reach.
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===Covenant===
The [[Covenant]] operated numerous space stations, most notably their [[city|capital city]] ''[[High Charity]]'', a mobile station almost constantly on the move. Additionally, an extensive network of resupply stations, spaceports and other facilities existed across Covenant territory to serve their ships and [[Covenant fleet|fleets]].<ref>''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]'', p. 221</ref>

*'''''[[High Charity]]''''' - the Covenant's mobile capitol and holy city.
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File:H2A - High Charity.jpg|The Covenant mobile station ''[[High Charity]]''.
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*'''''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''''' - a Covenant mobile fleet command center.
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File:H2A Terminals - Unyielding 2.jpg|A holographic representation of the Covenant mobile space station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''.
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*'''[[Station of Constant Sustenance]]''' - a resupply facility in the fringes of the Covenant's empire.
*'''[[Ap'ot|Ap'ot Port]]''' - a [[Kig-Yar]] spaceport in the [[Y'Deio system]].
*'''[[Ranarum Orbital Platform]]''' - a [[Sangheili]] space station and docking facility orbiting their homeworld [[Sanghelios]]. It houses the [[Aanrar Shipyard]].
*'''[[Oth Lodon station]]''' - a station operated by the [[New Colonial Alliance]] and Covenant remnants.
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File:HE Covenant station.jpg|[[Oth Lodon station|A Covenant station]] near [[Oth Lodon]].
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===Forerunner===
The [[Forerunner]]s constructed their most notable space installations on a planetary scale, and many of them are more aptly described as [[astroengineering|megastructures]] than space stations. The [[Halo Array|Halo rings]], the [[Ark]]s, the [[shield world]]s and the [[Capital]] are examples of such installations. Nonetheless, there are some which fall within the more conventional definition of a space station.

*'''[[Deep-Space Anomaly 0198]]''' - a small station in orbit around [[Threshold]] in the [[Soell]] system.
*'''[[Threshold gas mine]]''' 
*'''[[Seclusion Spiral]]'''
*'''[[Maethrillian]]'''

==Gallery==
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File:The Hopeful.png|''[[UNSC Hopeful]]'', a mobile hospital platform constructed from two repurposed refit stations. 
File:TFoR AS - Eridanus space docks.jpg|The [[Eridanus II space docks|space docks]] of [[Eridanus II]]. 
File:Halo ring and thing.jpg|A post-war human station near an unknown Halo installation.
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==Sources==
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