Battletech - Peterson class Naval Base

One of the SLDF's larger orbital facilities the Peterson class is named after the only Naval Officer to serve as Commanding General of the SLDF, Admiral David Peterson.  Designed to act as a repair facility, command post and defensive installation, the Peterson was a city in space.  With a crew of thousands and docking facilities, including a dry dock, for ships up to battleship scale the Peterson could service an entire squadron whilst giving crew time to relax in its huge rotating section. 
Capable of docking up to 54 DropShips as well as hundreds of fighters the base was armed with a mixture of lasers, particle cannons, missiles and gauss rifles, as well as having a multi-layered anti-fighter battery.  To challenge a Peterson usually required a fleet.

The Peterson class was actually not a single station but a trio of stations docked together around the central core.  With its armament inspired by a McKenna class battleship each section armed with dozens of heavy particle cannons, naval lasers and AR-10 missile launchers with point defences being provided by a layered AMS to counter the only real threat to a station of this size, massed nuclear missile bombardment.

The station was linked together by a series of high-speed trains that could move personnel and cargo along each axis, allowing for easy deployment of cargo to where it was needed.

The facility has a lot of command and control facilities along with facilities for R&R, as was only expected of a major military hub to commanding, preparing for, and recovering from military operations. It has an ATAC capable of controlling a massive amount of SDS robots, and it has an SDS Jammer in case the enemy brings them. It uses small craft bays since they can house either small craft or fighters, and they come with a larger technical crew.

Officer and crew have standard quarters for their rankings. Bay personnel have additional facilities built up around their work areas, combined with the facilities in the bays themselves these tech crews have enough room to be comfortable, or take on many more additional techs as needed. There is a massive 28 deck rotating grav ring around the top of the station, near the majority of the docking. Able to house nearly three thousand passengers, from crew embarking or disembarking from and to missions. This station is able to act as a hub for armies. The housing facilities in these rings are somewhat modular, and can be replaced with more compact facilities up to doubling their capacity.  As a final defence the station also houses thousands of marines onboard, with their own barracks and training areas for defence against boarding actions.

Capable of repairing the largest vessels in service one end houses internal facilities that can rebuild anything up to a McKenna battleship, in a pressurized environment. It can also house up to 12 smaller dropships internally (dropshuttle bays are being used here, since the station can't jump anyway, the restriction on what can dock in them is irrelevant to their purpose). Peterson X also includes four energy battery recharging stations, able to help ships quickly travel onward.

At the other end of Peterson X are facilities designed for the Station Complex's crew to enjoy, since this is a long term assignment, it was determined that these facilities were important. They also serve to house massive hydroponics facilities.
Continuing the redundant systems for command and control, and further increasing the number of SDS robots capable of being controlled bringing the total in the complex up to almost a thousand SDS units, the Peterson Z axis is geared more towards the technical aspects of this kind of hub. It has 6 unpressurized bays, two of which can accommodate battleships, and the other four able to handle JumpShips and DropShips. It also has another six internal bays able to house smaller dropships. A further 10 energy recharging stations round out the main differences in station Z.

The rules for this 7.5 million ton behemoth can be found here - bg.battletech.com/forums/index…

This is a non-canon design and was drawn by the AMAZING mattplog.deviantart.com/