Crashed Space Station

The Valiant-1 was a United States Space Administration space station that once orbited Earth before the Great War. It was left in orbit after the Nuclear Holocaust, however, orbital decay after a lack of thrust maintenance, led the space station to come crashing down and impacting West Virginia.

Charactersistics
The Valiant-1 is a circular space station designed like an orbiting wheel. At the center was the command core (which was later converted into a Raider encampment), where the main base of controlling the station was present. The module is then connected via connection tubes towards the rotating ring. These rings, such as Airlock C7, contained cargo and pressurised doors to allow spacecraft to dock on Valiant-1.

It was unknown whether Valiant-1 had its own artificial gravity. Although given its wheeled design, it is likely some form of artificial gravity was achieved via centrifugal force through a rotating frame like the ones present in Valiant-1.

Appearances
The space station appears in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes

 * The design of the Valiant-1 mirror many contemporary and Cold War references towards the idea of artificial gravity. The usage of centrifugal force to create pseudogravity could only be possible via an even rotating frame to prevent gravitational disturbances and ripping the spacecraft apart.
 * It could also be a reference to Space Station 5 in 2001: A Space Odyssey.