Some more bits:
* Nobody's entirely sure where the name Over The Rainbow came from. It just showed up painted on the outer hull one day and it stuck.
* The station is divided up into various communities of squatters, each of whom have control of one or more critical systems.
* To say there's a command of the station is kind of a joke; the balance of power is maintained by the community leaders, who range from democratic to autocratic and everything in between. But as long as each community can fuck over everyone (by shutting down life support, or killing the greenhouses, or putting the station into a collision course with Luna and so on) nobody will mess with that balance.
* Demographics-wise Over The Rainbow's population comes from the poorer parts of Earth, people who just managed to scrape together enough handwavium to build a short-range ship and not much else. Also there's a largeish population of transient refugees fleeing one damn thing or another. Refugees tend to filter through OTR on their way to Luna or Mars (mostly Mars).
* As the years roll on each community aboard OTR has added on to their part of the station, using random debris plus whatever new arrivals bring with them from Earth. The original industrial platform is slowly disappearing under a crust of junk.
* Over The Rainbow is considered a free port (in the Golden Age of Piracy sense, not the more modern 'duty-free shopping' sense) and is the only visible free port in the cislunar volume.
* Like the free ports of yore, smuggling is the major business in OTR. Most of it is narcotics going Earthward, some of it is high-value manufactured goods going spaceward. OTR's bazaar has the best bootlegs. People get transshiped through (see refugees above) but most of that business is closer to legit than anything else moving through OTR.
* Boskone has a presence here - of course they do - but the station isn't under their control. Too many factions aboard for them to subvert effectively, and force of arms would bring the Convention down on them like a ton of bricks.
* Great Justice (and by extension the Convention) watch the movement of good through OTR like hawks, and run more than one sting operation through there. "Cleaning up" the station OTOH is a low-priority operation: the onboard factions keep the peace between themselves just as well as the 'cleaner' stations, and honestly 99% of the people living on OTR aren't doing anything that would demand their arrest and/or removal from the facility.
* There is an undercurrent among the Lagrange unificationists to find OTR a new legal owner and get them to remove the squatters, however. This will likely not end well...
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
* Nobody's entirely sure where the name Over The Rainbow came from. It just showed up painted on the outer hull one day and it stuck.
* The station is divided up into various communities of squatters, each of whom have control of one or more critical systems.
* To say there's a command of the station is kind of a joke; the balance of power is maintained by the community leaders, who range from democratic to autocratic and everything in between. But as long as each community can fuck over everyone (by shutting down life support, or killing the greenhouses, or putting the station into a collision course with Luna and so on) nobody will mess with that balance.
* Demographics-wise Over The Rainbow's population comes from the poorer parts of Earth, people who just managed to scrape together enough handwavium to build a short-range ship and not much else. Also there's a largeish population of transient refugees fleeing one damn thing or another. Refugees tend to filter through OTR on their way to Luna or Mars (mostly Mars).
* As the years roll on each community aboard OTR has added on to their part of the station, using random debris plus whatever new arrivals bring with them from Earth. The original industrial platform is slowly disappearing under a crust of junk.
* Over The Rainbow is considered a free port (in the Golden Age of Piracy sense, not the more modern 'duty-free shopping' sense) and is the only visible free port in the cislunar volume.
* Like the free ports of yore, smuggling is the major business in OTR. Most of it is narcotics going Earthward, some of it is high-value manufactured goods going spaceward. OTR's bazaar has the best bootlegs. People get transshiped through (see refugees above) but most of that business is closer to legit than anything else moving through OTR.
* Boskone has a presence here - of course they do - but the station isn't under their control. Too many factions aboard for them to subvert effectively, and force of arms would bring the Convention down on them like a ton of bricks.
* Great Justice (and by extension the Convention) watch the movement of good through OTR like hawks, and run more than one sting operation through there. "Cleaning up" the station OTOH is a low-priority operation: the onboard factions keep the peace between themselves just as well as the 'cleaner' stations, and honestly 99% of the people living on OTR aren't doing anything that would demand their arrest and/or removal from the facility.
* There is an undercurrent among the Lagrange unificationists to find OTR a new legal owner and get them to remove the squatters, however. This will likely not end well...
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"