Dubbed "the wooden planet" by space truckers, Arceon is a strange station. Originally an old Class V habitation sphere, the mile-wide Arceon was repurposed as a monastery for a reclusive technophobic monastic order. A metallic areas within and without covered with wood, and all structures within the sphere- an abbey, libraries, communal baths, reservoirs, and even a massive glassworks. Inside, exist open spaces with ceilings as high as 100 meters tall, and the structure itself is layered like an ant's nest. Arceon sports grass fields with crops and livestock being maintained. It is large enough and rotates fast enough to maintain it's own thin atmosphere which is continually replenished by technology located at the core of the world. The upper hemisphere is dominated by a massive lake, full of marine life.
Arceon was founded by a monastic "back to nature" movement in the early 2100s. While initially dismissed as nothing more than a hypocritical cult, the order proved dangerous when it used the enhanced computer virus called New Plague to wipe out an inordinate amount of data on Earth, crippling credit unions and trans-stellar corporations alike. The group even detonated bombs in key metropolitan sectors, utilizing the electromagnetic pulse people to get by without technology. As more and more followers flocked to the order, action was taken. Rounded up and arrested by a joint 3WE and UA task force, the order's final sentencing was suspended when Weyland Corporation bought off the judges.
The monks ultimately got released into the conscripted custody of Weyland-Yutani, who relocated them to Arceon in exchange for the employment of their leader, Saint Tomas- the computer genius behind the New Plague. On Arceon the group is led by an Abbot. Also, an older model android called Brother Anthony resides with them to keep them from rising again. Weyland-Yutani ships stopped running supplies to Arceon after Tomas died decades ago, and the monks have very few actual visitors. Their crops and livestock sustain them as they live the simple life.
