Arxcis Major

Background
The central part of Scintilla Prime, housing the Administratum since the Angevin Crusade and, following the Marcus Dorn incident, the Ecclesiarchy. The Arxcis Major holds all the primary functions of the station.

Station Control
Perhaps the most significant organ, in terms of day to day routines, is Station Control, who maintains all the basic needs of the facility, life-support, power consumption, flight control etc.
The Station Control Commander is, as decreed by the Sorenson Resolution, the naval officer residing in Scintilla Prime’s Council Quartet. A fact that has been contested on more than one occasion, seeing as this is, without comparison, the most influential office held in the CQ. But so far the representatives of the Adeptus Terra summoned to overturn the resolution, have refused to budge on this point and in recent years, the attempts the overturn the governing resolution have lessened in frequency.

Stellar Reach
The spire of the Arxcis Major is known as the Stellar Reach and is reserved for high-ranking members of the Imperial Branches and influential civilians from the top of the Hives of Scintilla. The Stellar Reach offers several rooms and suites with force field panoramic views of lunar- and sun-rises over Scintilla, making it the one of the most prestigious places in the sector to live or even stay, if only for a day-cycle or two.

The lower part of the Arcxis Major is the arrival zone most civilian orbital shuttles. The flight terminals are packed with a broad variety of people from all over the sector. On any given day the majority of these are most likely to be pilgrims and the local business men and women who see to their demands.

Several of the terminals have designated sleeping areas for the pilgrims, but these afford modest comforts and are often near the actual flight decks, resulting in frequent accidents, seeing as the human body does not react well to the proximity of plasma driven space engines.