The station is annular in design, featuring eight separate modules:

• Operations
• Dormitory (includes Lavatory facilities and a fully-furnished Player Suite)
• Recreation Deck (with a commissary where you can buy food & drink)
• Infirmary (with an AutoDoc)
• D.R.O.P. Bay
• Armory (with a suit of custom power armor that you can repair either with skill or with gathered junk)
• Cargo Bay
• Docking Bay (with a shuttle to the surface)
• Observation Ring (with a panoramic view of the Earth)
  

These modules are connected by a "transit system" that lets you go straight to any module from any other. One thing I disliked about other space station mods I found was that you typically had to walk through each cell in order to reach the one you want, which often made it frustrating and confusing to navigate. I hope you'll agree that I came up with a good compromise without taking away from the realism.

The station also features a holographic onboard assistant to talk to, who you can ask about almost any item or location on the station. She also acts as a vendor, and is the only source of a new chem I added called an Interlink Booster, which allows you to equip and use power armor, even if you don't have training, for one hour (real time, I think?). After the chem wears off, if you're still wearing power armor, you suffer a debuff that halves your movement speed and doubles the Action Point cost of all your weapons until you take the armor off. This simulates the weight of the armor becoming a burden without the proper training. If you already have power armor training, though, don't worry, the chem isn't useless to you! In your case, it will boost your Agility for an hour while in power armor, simulating an enhanced connection with your suit, allowing it to respond better to your movements.

As far as access goes, there are three ways onto and off of the station - a conventional shuttle which takes six hours of game time, a teleporter that is instantaneous but only works to bring you onto the station from any exterior cell, and what I consider to be the crown jewel of the mod, the Dynamic Re-entry of Orbital Personnel (D.R.O.P.) pods.

Starship Troopers is my all-time favourite novel, so this was a no-brainer, especially considering how we already have power armor. Basically, this option simulates being dropped from orbit in a pod to land at any point on Earth, just like in Starship Troopers (or like the ODSTs from the Halo franchise, if you're under the age of 25). Currently, you can choose between eight locations to deploy to: Camp McCarran, The Fort or The Strip in the Mojave, or The Citadel, Rivet City, Megaton, Paradise Falls or Evergreen Mills in the Capital Wasteland. A D.R.O.P. insertion takes ninety in-game minutes.

If you have any suggestions for additional insertion points, please leave a comment. I chose these particular locations to start with because I thought it would be the ultimate power move to be able to drop from orbit straight into your enemy's base and just lay waste to everyone. Oh, I also want to eventually make it so that you can drop into DLC areas like the Sierra Madre, Zion National Park, The Pitt, etc. but I'm not sure how to do it in a way that doesn't break the game. I'm thinking of maybe adding a condition where you can only drop there once you've completed the DLC, but at that point, I'm not sure how much value there would be in returning. If you have any input, please leave a comment.

As of v2.0, a Research Track has been added to allow you to research upgrades for the station. The following upgrades are available:

• Intramural Targeting Scanners - Allows you to teleport down to the surface from the station
• Digital Quantum Storage - Adds extra storage to the player suite
• High-Def Holographic Projectors - Populates the station with holographic crew members
• Expanded Cargo Manifest - Expands HOLLI's vendor inventory, as well as the types of food and drink available in the commissary. Also populates the Armory racks with cosmetic power armor and weapons

The two main methods to gain access to the station were designed to be as immersive, lore-friendly and realistic as possible (within the limitations of the engine and base-game assets), to appeal to the roleplayers. There is a shuttle at Nellis AFB, and another one at Adams AFB.

Nellis AFB
Adams AFB
Aside from the shuttles, there are two Retrieval Beacons to be found in non-DLC areas in both the Capital and Mojave Wastelands. These are intended to be a lot more convenient for casual players, while still remaining lore friendly enough as to not completely destroy suspension of disbelief. Teleportation is firmly established as a possibility in the Fallout universe, after all.

Capital Wasteland
Mojave Wasteland
Note: If you can't find the beacon, it may have clipped through the floor. The FormID is ##AE0001 (##01AAE2 in v1.0) if you need to spawn another one via the console. Replace ## with the Mod Index of the mod in your load order.