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Mashiva Spaceport

The Mashiva Spaceport is the primary interstellar port facility in the Marian Drift Prefectural Capital of Mashiva, on the world of Maria IV. The massive port facility was established over western "inland" portion of the formerly secret underground Macharri Naval Base in the year 4014. Two parallel main landingways run from north to south, each approximately 4 kilometers long. A 3 kilometer long secondary landingway runs from east to west. All are 150 meters wide, and are sufficiently reinforced to accommodate surface landing – surface maneuverable vessels up to 2 million standard tons in weight.

The Mashiva Spaceport is best known for its massive, art-deco style passenger terminal. This takes up most of the spaceport's northeastern section and can accommodate up to 250,000 passengers per day. Most flights are planetary local, with about 300 per day on average. About 100 per day are shuttles to the passenger focused Mariandi Station in orbit around the diminutive Maria V. The remaining 60 or so are direct interstellar flights, mostly on smaller vessels with a low number of first and second class overnight or multi-day accommodations.

The Mashiva Mariners' University is nestled into the northwestern corner between the main and secondary landingways. It was built into the abandoned former Kavandi-Mashiva Shipyard. North of it are the Chevinta shipyard, Desuri Interstellar Power Systems, and Alyaya Heavy Freight facilities.

Both the southeast and much of the southwest sections of the Mashiva Spaceport are dedicated to freight and Imperial Mail operations, with Nebula Space Transport being the largest single operator. Civil aviation is mixed in, primarily in the southeast. The old Vixanti Facility Three hangar in the southwest section is now the primary freight access to the Gelitech Marian Drift Prefecture Operations Center.

The Mashiva Spaceport has direct connections to the Mashiva City Sky, Emerald and Black bus lines, the Mashiva Prime Intercity Bus Line, the Mashiva Rapid Transit Red, Purple, Blue, Green, Pink, and Yellow subway Lines, and the Intercity Express Sky commuter rail line.