Scaffold

The Scaffold was a massive orbiting facility located over Kharak. It was used to construct the Mothership. Upon the Mothership's return it would have served to install weapons modules on the Mothership, but it had been destroyed by a Taiidan fleet. It was built for the sole purpose of building and servicing the Mothership and no similar facilities have been built since its destruction.

History
The Scaffold was constructed to fit the needs to build the Mothership itself. After 20-years of building up the planet's infrastructure, the Kushan spent the next 20-years constructing the massive facility in orbit, which was completed in 2126. It became the first (and only) moon in Kharak's sky, measuring 25.6-kilometers long when completed and home to 100,000 officers and their depedents.

The Scaffold would supply the construction of the Mothership for the next 25-years, during that time parts of the Scaffold itself were canabalized to assist construction of the Mothership. At the Mothership's completion the Mothership was launched with little ceremony from the Scaffold's grip in 2151.

After the Mothership's departure, however, the Scaffold became a primary target for the invading Taiidan Imperial Fleet, and was destroyed with several strikes to the Scaffold's structure. The station launched its own security forces to stave off the Taiidani bombers that had attacked the station, but they were hopelessly overwhelmed and nearly exterminated. Only the timely intervention of the returning Mothership and the UES Enterprise managed to destroy the Taiidan fleet.

Using the combination of Hiigaran hyperdrive and a Human warp-field, the Mothership managed to expand its field around the Scaffold and several other surviving Kushan civilian ships and stations, transporting them through the Homeworld War to Hiigara. It became the basis for the Second Hiigaran Empire shipbuilding industry.