The Beacon

The Beacon is a Galactic Armada-owned relay station that orbits just outside the "core" of the Milky Way galaxy. Its primary function is to facilitate faster-than-light communications from different parts of the galaxy. While most such communication relies on the Wormhole Travel Network, and the Beacon does serve as a backup coordinating center for that network, the primary purpose for the Beacon is covert communication within the GA. The station is heavily armored and uses gravity well manipulation to "fall" faster and less predictably than were it in a plain orbit. These same gravity manipulators are used to maintain the smaller wormholes used for instantaneous communication with other, smaller stations carried with and stationed near other major ships and installments.