Harbinger/34

Nostalgia
It was already a month since the return of the - much larger - Harbinger Fleet. Three large, hemispherical mining complexes had been fully built, greatly facilitating resource gathering compared to mining by teams of SCV's. Large residential towers had been built, holding far more than just the standard supply depot components, providing each person with considerable free space - much more than could be provided on the formerly cramped Dropships. No barracks had been built, and the first one had been dismantled; in its place were several factories that were turning out Thors and Vikings by the hour. By far the most space-occupying structures were the starports, mostly "parking lots" where the numerous starships could land for refueling and maintenance but also with starship factories of their own, constantly assembling additional Hyperion-class battlecruisers. Prominently in the center was a needle-shaped control tower, almost a kilometer tall, filled with thousands upon thousands of military personnel, issuing commands to fleet ships in orbit above so that fewer people would have to put their lives at risk aboard those vessels. What had once been a field of construction sites had by now become a nearly complete military town, black and white with Neosteel and metal. Many resource packages had been sent to the battlecruisers every day to fuel their own production facilities, with the result that the fleet was shining new and more numerous, more robust than ever before.