<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Navarro Center for Advancement in the Sciences</strong> </span> </div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Currently in Geosynchronous orbit over the Navarro Estates </span> </div><br/><div align="center">(http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2386/startrekspacestation.jpg)</div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">N-CAS station(Pronounced "En-Kaz" by most) is a mobile space station capable of moving to different locations at moderate warpspeeds, although this is never done lightly. N-CAS is quite simply massive, easily larger than several small cities, although the vast sprawl of The First City dwarfs even N-CAS. <br/><br/>The station is known throughout the galaxy as a place where science has few if any limitations. Research that would be illegal almost anywhere else in the galaxy is not only allowed on N-CAS...it is generously funded and encouraged. Scientific advancement is the primary goal on N-CAS. Officially anyway. Of course it's not all "for the science". The cost of such generous funding and minimal oversight for a scientific team that wishes to move their research to N-CAS is that the House of Navarro receives exclusive rights to the new technology for no less than ten years...a relatively small price to pay as far as most scientists eager to be free of restrictions are concerned. <br/><br/>Needless to say it has taken considerable political and legal maneuvering...and alot of bribery...to secure such status for N-CAS. It is almost a sovereign state unto itself, and this makes many nervous. With good reason. Although some truly awe-inspiring acheivements in science have come out of N-CAS...so have several horrendous nightmares. The Station's security team has done it's job quite impressively and have contained every catastrophe with minimal fallout. <br/><br/>So far...<br/><br/>N-CAS has just about everything you could imagine in a city of comparable size. Crime, prostitution, a black market, entertainment, schools and residential sectors. But everything is built around the core theme of creating an environment that allows the most brilliant minds in the galaxy to unleash their creativity and ingenuity...God(Q?) help us all. <br/><br/>You can find scientific representatives of just about every major species in the Galaxy on N-CAS. Even more than a few Federation races wishing to operate without Starfleet's omnipresent multiple redundant saftey and ethical regulations which just keep getting in the way of the science. <br/><br/>Of course this doesn't mean there are NO safety protocols. All scientific research is restricted to the outer platforms, which can be seperated from the core station and destroyed if something truly nightmarish gets loose. There are multiple biohazard checkpoints and decontamination procedures seperating the core station from the research platforms, along with cutting edge firewalls and Security AI programs protecting the computer. Each platform has it's own Main Computer which is also seperate from the core station's main computer to ensure no virus or glitch can compromise the entire station at once. </div>