ISS Alternia

The ISS Alternia was an International Space Station built in the year 2114. Construction was put on hold during a period of conflict between the Earthern Government and its surrounding civilisations, during the Human Race's acsension into the League. In the meantime, the ISS Alternia plans were improved and the final commissioned station was far superior to what it would have been if it had not been suspended.

Once the period of conflict had passed, the ISS Alternia was finally commissioned as a scientific research station with the purpose of exploring different social setups in a controlled environment. The different experiments (or 'towns') are played out in seperate facilities in the station in order to gather results on all the sociological tests.

There was much debate on whether these tests should be done in space or not. Most governments agreed that the tests should be done on a neautral territory, like an International Space Station. Originally, the idea was for several of the tests to be done in zero gravity, but this was deemed nonsensical so the station's designers developed the station's wheel-shaped design to maintain gravity within the station.

The station's operations as a socialogical testing site had ceased by 2130, and the station was officially sold to Virgin Galactic to be turned into a space hotel. As a Space Hotel, Alternia existed for roughly 400 years before being destroyed (along with many other Earthern space platforms) during the First Battle of Earth in the Human-Covenant War.