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To me, the station looked most like six spare Ambassador class saucers bolted together, with the antenna assemblies of the Midas array plus tanks common with the Regula stations added to the assembly.
Who knows, perhaps this IS a Federation method of building space stations - they build more primary than secondary hulls, and use the former as space station elements, simply with different innards. They could even haul them in place using the stardrive sections of the respective ship classes, provided that an Ambassador can operate without the full interiors of her primary hull in place. Conveniently enough, an Ambassador has her impulse engines in the secondary hull, or at least in the neck, leaving the saucer empty of externally evident crucial hardware.
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Looks like a nice place to take a vacation.
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