=Thorne (850 AU)= 
**Station Type:** [[Clusters|Cluster]]
**Allegiance:** [[Argonauts|Argonaut]]
**Primary Languages:** Mandarin
**Population:** 570
The Thorne is a high-capacity radio telescope and transmitter, one of the foremost interstellar astronomy labs in the system. Located almost 5 light days from the sun, it is the largest observatory outside of the heliosphere. It supports a nanomesh collector dish with an additional cloud of micromachines, providing a reﬂective area in excess of thirty-ﬁve square kilometers. The Thorne is gradually canvassing the night sky and transmitting the data to public feeds for analysis. The Thorne is the subject of recent media hype due to the new craze of vanitycasting, where people egocast forks of themselves to the stars or into deep space in hopes of being retrieved by distant aliens. While it’s acknowledged that the likelihood of a vanitycast being successful is low, the practice has won the argonauts a lot of positive reputation.

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