Hosk Station is a major trading port and space station that sprawls across Kalabra's largest moon. The station's colse proximity to several influentical systems allowed it to become a center of commerce and political influence. The droids C-3PO and R2-D2 had several adventures in and around Hosk Station while in the company of Nak Pitareeze, the grandson of a skilled starship designer.
    The station was originally built to be a supply and mintenance facility for the Old Republic. It was an excellent choice due to it's proximity to then-new colonies, while the moons low gravity proved useful for capital starships coming in to dock. The system's asteroid belts provided a convenient source of metals and ores.
    After thousands of years of activity, Hosk Station became a base in search of a mission. The former colonies had become stable worlds, and galactic trouble spots increasingly cropped up in areas close to other supply stations. So the Republic sold the station to civilian interests.
    Transports, liners, and courier ships have come to use Hosk Station as a docking and transfer point. It is typical of many major space station and is so large that it is full community unto itself, with 5 million permanent residents. Artificial gravity and atmosphere generators provide a comfortable climate for humans, while different secotrs of the station have different gravities and atmospheres to accommodate exotice life-forms. A fully computerized map of the station can be accessed from any public data terminal. Hosk Station maintains virtually any business one could want, from small shops and droid dealerships to opulent restaurants and luxurious hotels. The station's interior is filled with starship repair and construction bays. For defense, the station has ten turbolasers and a contingent of eight Hyrotii Zerbra short-range fighters. A dozen tractor-beam projectors are mounted near the main docking bay clusters. Incoming ships are required to slave their computers to the starport controllers and allow the tractor beams to handle docking procedures.