Tour - Operations Center (OPS)
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Summary
An Operations Center (also known as Ops) is the command and control facility of a space station or outpost. (
Additional Information
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Deck 12 (Main), Deck 211 (Tertiary), Deck 1101 (Auxiliary) |
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The Operations Center (also known as Ops) is the command and control facility of a space station or outpost. All major departments typically have stations, and often more than one, in the Ops section, always manned. This allows the command section and senior staff unlimited access to what is going on at all times, both inside and outside the station/outpost. Much like the Bridge of a ship, everything from Environmental Systems to communications and sensors to Flight Control is monitored and controlled from here.
Normal components of an Ops center (beside all the department stations) include a Captain's Ready Room, an Observation Lounge and/or Briefing Room, a Weapons Locker, and dedicated turbolifts. Whatever the case, it has become standard procedure to also have an auxiliary operations center installed---a lesson Starfleet learned from the Dominion War. The Jem'Hadar were especially adept at focusing their attacks on the Ops of any station or outpost they targeted, rendering chaos to the rest of the facility. Click photo to enlarge the Deck 12, Main Operations Center overview. Note: Drawings are not in scale to one another.
The Auxiliary Operations Center is located on Deck 1101 and is, if anything, even larger. It serves the same purpose and is back up for Main Ops, as well as handling about 40% of the ship's operating systems.
The Tertiary Operations Center is located on Deck 211 and is somewhat smaller than the other two. This is mainly a backup, although it handles about 20% of the station's less vital operating systems.
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