Scuttling the station right now would not be a wise idea. As you well know, we have been able to well utilize the Fort recently. Its improved security capabilities has allowed us to store and sell Iridium Ore, largely to house bound traders while keeping our main facility largely unnoticed and safe. My engineers tell me there is plenty of potential on that base still to bring forth. They have been eager to start projects like expanding the Ore holds and even potentiality some special equipment production facilities in the future. My engineers also tell me that both Fort Scorpius and Delta Mining Corp. are having the same issue.
Omicron Delta is a very unusual system in the sense that it is effected by 4 strong gravitation fields. Three stars and black hole that effects the area, along with the weaker ones found in the planets Narru and Tuvalu. It is near impossible to accurately chart where and when gravitational eddies can occur, or where they don't. But it seems that stations without strong gravity wells close by, like a planet, tend to suffer from what we might perceive as erratic drift. In reality it is the over all mass and gravity balancing out in a very complicated area of space. Delta Mining Corp. for example, we are 100% certain that the moon-let was actually a captured object and not a naturally occurring satellite as its orbit has become erratic recently and seems to now be drifting away from the planet. Freeport 11 seems to be a rare exception to this. My people theorize that it may have drifted into a so called 'Goldilocks' zone that is seldom effected if ever by the effects of the various gravity issues in the region. We would need to preform some extensive research with some very sensitive equipment to really prove that, but for now we need to address the situations we have at hand.
First of all Fort Scorpius. Not far from the Freeport, there is a long deployed Zoner sensor array stationed in sector 4E. From what we can gather from the satellite meta-positioning data, it seems that while not as good of an area as Freeport 11 in the sense of gavametric stability, major shifts in this sector only occur roughly every 10 years, where the need for stabilization will be necessary again. This is assuming we are using a complete data set, but with the complex orbits we are dealing with it is impossible to say for certain. There can be for example, rare orbital 'seasons' of the trinary stars that we have not been able to predict. But it does have the advantages of being a reasonably easy move, still being close enough to provide guard to the Freeport and can greatly benefit from being close to the satellite array giving us a communications and sensor edge we never had before. I also heard a rumor that a christening of the stations name is being considered. For what its worth, Marathon Station sounds nice to me if the names not taken already. But I'll leave that creative stuff up to the Human Relations people.
Seeing as we will already have the heavy lifters our, we might as well stabilize the orbit of Delta Mining Corp. at the same time. Our Hegemons and Ore Haulers have reported that they can no longer find the station easily, and measures need to be taken immediately.
Its a simple plan really. The Planet Tuvalu's rings have some areas of less density then others. The largest of these zones is in the inner rings of the Planet. The plan is to tow the 'asteroid' and place it in the orbital plane of the planet IE: the rings where we expect it to have a very stable orbit for millennia to come. This should also improve the overall navigability to and from the station, as Narru will no longer be a constant obstruction, and our haulers should be able to find its location easier in its more prominent position.
I have sent word to the Heavy Construction fleet at Kadesh to begin preparations to embark to Omicron Delta and commence operations at your orders Christian.