Dolha Station

Earth Empire Colonial Station, Quadrant 7, orbiting Dolha III (636116)

(New home of the 130th Earther Marine Regiment, under the famous Lt Colonel TA Killgore)

The deck area of Dolha Station is some 11 square kilometres. Its population is in the region of 10,000, spread over 30 decks.

It is also the focus for a great many other orbital operations, including Naval repair facilities, orbital factories, development centres, as well as being the main port of call for incoming and outgoing trade.

Politics

Local Government: consists of an partially elected civilian Station Council. The representatives break down as follows:

Elected by the citizens of Dolha Station

  • Ms Ffiona Cyder (chair)
  • M Rodbell
  • I Xse
  • A Gilman
  • R Roberts
  • J Chang
  • L Bandar

Appointed by the Colonial Governor:

  • J Cougar,
  • S Tonegawa

Appointed by the Dolha Station Consortium:

  • P Sharp
  • G Domagk

Appointed by the Imperial Navy

  • Lt Cdr H Nixon

At Full Council Meetings there are also usually the following in attendance in a non-voting capacity:

  • · Chief of station police
  • · Chief of emergency services
  • · Head Customs Officer
  • · Chief of Space Traffic Control
  • · Senior Port Manager

Also representatives of the Farming Consortium and the The DS Chamber of Commerce

Police

Chief of Police: Chief Inspector Steve Moore.

  • Deputy Chief: Inspector Charles Bankstone.
  • Chief of Detectives Inspector Joe MacNally
  • Chief of Patrols Inspector Mark Pilkington
  • SWAT Commander Inspector Ian Simmons.

Station Operations

Port Chief Executive: Paul Sievking

  • Chief of Space Traffic Control Operations: Tony Cullen
  • Chief of Emergency Services: Bob Rickard

Station Pacifier Squadron Commander: Lt Commander Christine Wood

Customs & Excise

Chief Excise Officer Charles Fort

  • Deputy Philippa Uwins
  • Head of Orbital Operations Paul Davies
  • Head of Dockside Operations Andrew Crosse

Navy

IENHQ Dolha Station

Naval Commander HQ Dolha Station Commodore Algernon Peregrine Swan

  • Deputy Commander Captain Wilhelm Reich
  • Chief of Staff Commander Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Station Marines:

  • CO 257 EMR - Lt Colonel Victoria Alice Saxe-Coburg (departing on ESS Agamemnon)
  • CO 130 EMR - Lt Colonel Thomas Atkins Killgore (arriving on ESS Agamemnon)

Station Pacifiers

  • Operations Officer: Cdr Rita Williams
  • Squadron Commander: Lt Commander Christine Wood
  • Chief Pacifier Technician: Lt Tonino Cantelmi

Dolha Star Guard - based at Dolha Station

  • Commander Admiral Hunter

Repair Yard

Chief Engineer Naval Repair Yard: Commodore Etienne Gilfillan

  • Head of Heavy engineering Commander Richard Mergler
  • Head of Weapons Captain Kerry Fitzmaurice
  • Head of HSD Systems Captain Karen Wyatt
  • Head of Light Craft Commander Teresa Stow
  • Head of Propulsion Captain Kiran Sharma

Naval Hospital

Surgeon General Naval Hospital: Commodore Jane Watkins

  • Head of Trauma Unit: Commander Dr Khan
  • Head of Space Medicine: Commander Dr Pete Woodhead
  • Head of Research: Captain Dr Hunt Emerson
  • Chief Surgeon: Captain Dr Joanna Brown
  • Head of Genetics Commander Dr Mary Dash

Naval Secretariat

Head of NS: Captain Debbie Bicknell

  • Chief Financial Advisor Jon Large
  • Head of HR Kieth Jackson
  • Head of Postings Commander James Lyon
  • Head of Recruitment & PR Commander Rachel Knaggs

Naval Training Organisation

Head of NTO Captain Zoe Gray

  • Operational Training Organisation Commander Et Heron
  • Leadership Training Organisation Cdr Emmanual Milingo
  • Marine Training Organisation Lt Colonel Mark Opsasnick

Religious & Social

The station has a number of religious groups with their own, privately owned, temples, chapels, churches and the like.

Foremost religious/belief groups (with percentage adherents in the Dolha system as a whole in brackets)
Atheists (36%) The First Church of Earth (16%) The Christianists (10%)
Church of the Latter Day Holy Elvis (8%) Followers of Mahommet (6%) Buddhist (4%)
The New Davidians (3%) Hindu (3%) Zoroastrians (3%)
New Jewish Faith (2%) Satanists (2%) The Way of Enlightened Humanity (1%)
The Searchers after the Shining Way of  Sirius (1%) About 30+ misc other smaller faiths (5%)

Corporations & Consortia

The station was started in 3102 funded by a consortium of major corporations investing in the growing economy of Quadrant 7.

The Dolha Station Consortium is still very influential, even though it has probably reaped its return on the investment several times over by now.

The DSC consists of the following partners, in order of size of stakeholding:

36% The Ministry of Interstellar Development (Earth Empire Government)
25% The Disney Corporation
12% Virgin Spaceways Corporation
10% General Mechanical Industries (Earth) Corporation
9% Wimpey-Fergusson Corporation
8% Wit and Pratney Engineering

MEDIA

Given that the Earth Empire offers considerable freedom of the press, the media are well represented on Dolha Station and in Hernando City.

The DOLHA DAILY COMET is one of the foremost news organs, much respected by politicians and thinking citizens.  In particular its analysis and comment output, the daily 'This Day Programme'.

Recent Issues of  the Daily Comet News Summaries can be informative.   Recent News Items

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