The Tower and The Ring (Patreon)

The Tower's official name is 'The SkySpear' space elevator, and the orbital shipyard and station around Katric is the 'Blue Star Equatorial Low Orbit Platform'.

But it's way easier for everyone involved, including you, dear reader, to just call it the Tower and the Ring. I wrote out a very rough draft for the first act of my story, and The Tower is a recurring location for Vikna, ARA and others, so I needed to get a better grasp on what it might fully look like, including the terminus.

Unnecessary lore drop:

I described it before as being a print-head...it lets the rotation of Katric send molten material up and keeps it liquid until it reaches the print head. The endcap is a massive counterweight, with only very few passages through it, and mostly solid mass and print tubes. These tubes extend outwards toward the Ring on the North face, which is kept very flat except for some inputs for these tubes. The distance between the two structures is generally about 200m or so. The tubes are disconnected at intervals and can be moved up and down the Tower print head if a different crew in a different location needs it for another ship build.

The Ring rotates at a -slightly- slower speed, so that over the course of about 90 days, the Tower makes one full transit. Along the Ring, those said inputs are used to direct to internal factories where metal is cast and used directly in shipyards. Originally the metal was used to build much of the Ring itself, being the galaxy's largest 3D printer. Now, it serves both as shipyard and the primary spaceport for Katric, one of the largest in the galaxy by area.