[Spaceships] Alcubierre-class forward jump station

[Michael Thayne]

I've been reading up on scientifically-plausible superscience, including the "Orion's Arm" setting, but it's interesting to think about where things could go. And eventually got inspired to make this. The exophase lightspeed drive is intended to represent the Alcubierre Drive variant that drops into a pocket universe to travel at near-light speeds—what Orion's Arm calls a Void Ship. Feedback on the concept would be very much appreciated.

Alcubierre-class Forward Jump Station (TL 11^)

This starship is intended to act as the mobile counterpart to a Labyrinth-class jump station (see Spaceships 5, p. 27). It has a control room with short-term life support, but is usually controlled by AIs. Once it reaches the target system, it uses the magsail to "brake", cancelling most of the differences in velocity between the home system and the target system. Colonists may then immediately come through the gate and begin converting it into a Labyrinth-class station. It uses an SM +14 (1,000,000 ton) unstreamlined hull.

Front Hull
[1] Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor
[2] Science Array.
[3!] Magsail.
[4-6!] Jump Gate
[core] Control Room

Central Hull
[1] Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor
[2!] Medium Battery (3 turrets with 10 GJ rapid fire X-ray lasers).
[3-6!] Jump Gate
[core] Super Fusion Reactors (four Power Points each).

Rear Hull
[1] Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor
[2!] Lightspeed Drive
[3-5!] Jump Gate
[6] Super Fusion Reactor (four Power Points).

It has artificial gravity and a setting-standard exophase drive field (no additional cost).