The orbital station hung like a jagged crown above Ganymede, its rusted plates and retrofitted cannons painted in the smeared ochre of a thousand battles. Colonists called it Drexmod — short for Drexler Module — a salvage rig turned fortress that had seen more faction flags nailed to its pylons than there were stars visible through Jupiter’s glare. Once a research outpost for terraforming, it had been repurposed into a prize: whoever controlled Drexmod controlled the ice mines, the fusion gel—resources that could tip continental wars into extinction-level victories.
: To preserve the integrity of the aging game, the mod includes a cheat detector that can identify and report "midgeters" (cheaters). empire earth drexmod
The first time Lira saw Drexmod up close, it was a silhouette against a lightning storm rippling the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. Her flagship, the Aurelian, drifted into the module’s shadow, sensors picking up scavenger drones nesting in hollow turrets and old mining rigs hollowed into missile bays. She ordered the boarding. The first battle was savage and almost apologetic in its necessity—blaster fire echoing down service corridors, rusted security doors groaning as bodies jammed them shut. In the end, Drexmod’s lights blinked on beneath Lira’s emblem, and she marked its central beacon with a hand-scarred flag. The orbital station hung like a jagged crown