Starbase Horizon is the Federation’s newest outpost, perched on the L4 point between the star and singularity in the Sigma Ancylon system. In addition to actively stabilizing the local terminus of the wormhole, the station also serves as a regional trade hub and strategic command post, as well as a rest, repair, and resupply facility for Starfleet vessels.

Mission

Horizon's primary mission in the region is to act as an anchor station to keep the wormhole stable enough to open a brief, monthly transit window – allowing ships from home to arrive, and for others to depart.

Design

The station is a modified Spacedock-type facility, built around the gutted spaceframe of an aging station nearing the end of its service life. The majority of the “mushroom stem” was converted to house the massive equipment necessary to anchor the wormhole, leaving only the “mushroom cap” as habitable volume.

A large annular warp ring was also fitted around the rim of the station, allowing it some small degree of autonomous movement.

Technical Details

The station continuously siphons off gravitons and Hawking radiation antiparticles emitted by the black hole, storing them in large capacitor banks. When full, the stored antiparticles can be discharged to create a region of polarized subspace around the station, attracting the terminus of the wormhole like a magnet.

Once the terminus appears, the station then emits a concentrated graviton stream to act as a “lasso,” holding the wormhole in place until the capacitors are drained. This process then repeats, taking roughly a month to recharge back to operational capacity.