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== Docking Permission ==
[[File:Station with Boeing 747 and Courier.jpg|thumb|250px|Station with Boeing 747 and Courier]]
All stations require incoming ships to request and be granted docking permission before they pass through the access corridor. Ships without permission will be charged with trespass as they near it. If they do not then vacate the station area very rapidly, the station will become hostile and open fire. Many ships are not fast enough to reverse course before they are fired upon, so pilots must be attentive at all times and not forget to request permission. 

The interior of stations is kept pressurised with a breathable, if not always pleasant, atmosphere. Translucent blue force fields generated at the access corridor prevent the immediate venting of this atmosphere into space yet allows the passage of spacecraft. Ships with broken [[Ship Canopy|canopies]] which are on emergency [[Life Support]] will no longer be in danger from running out of oxygen once they pass the force fields.