# Has anyone tried to make a troop transfer station? **URL:** \ **Category:** Design Forum\ **Created:** [September 27, 2026, 7:55am UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/has-anyone-tried-to-make-a-troop-transfer-station/1142 "2026-09-27T07:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Samara](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/aurora4x.com/samara/32/2401_2.png) [@Samara](https://aurora4x.com/u/Samara)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 7:55am UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/has-anyone-tried-to-make-a-troop-transfer-station/1142/1 "2026-09-27T07:55:31Z")
Something I’m thinking about for my current campaign is designing a series of deep-space marine bases, places big enough to support a small contingent of boarding ships with enough space to both handle large numbers prisoners for temporary storage as well as a bunch of replacement squadrons of space marines so my assault ships can be fully “reloaded” without having to make the long trip back to Earth. Are deep-space troop transfers even a thing? ---
**Author:** ![S810\_Jr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/aurora4x.com/s810_jr/32/1911_2.png) [@S810\_Jr](https://aurora4x.com/u/S810_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 9:00am UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/has-anyone-tried-to-make-a-troop-transfer-station/1142/2 "2026-09-27T09:00:20Z")
I have done the POW in my last campaign. I was capturing a lot of life pods. I basically just had an old colonist ship of 100,000 cryo space in deep space along with a small ship with 1000 cryo space that would collect the life pods or transfer POW from combat ships that had picked them up. Then transfer them to the 100,000 space ship. And yes you can do deep space troop transfers. Same way you get them back off a captured ship. I made a mistake once as I had ground forces getting built on Luna. Wasn’t a problem as my troop transports had cargo shuttle. Then I tried to load my boarding pods, opps forgot the cargo transfer station or starport on Luna!! Simply loaded a lot of the marines on to a normal 25k troop transport and then transferred them from that to the boarding pods. So you can do both things you want with just your old commercial colonist ships and troop transport ships. Though when you have many billions of km back to Earth for replacement marines I found just having 1 GFCC on a nearby colony saves a lot of hassle. Just mark it for replacements and drop the damaged formations on it. As for the supporting of boarding ships, do you mean their deployment and maintenance clocks? That would depend on the size of your boarding ships and how long they would be stationed there. A long deployment military hangar or short deployment one inside a commercial one could work. ---
**Author:** ![Walter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85e7bf/32.png) [@Walter](https://aurora4x.com/u/Walter)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/has-anyone-tried-to-make-a-troop-transfer-station/1142/3 "2026-09-28T15:36:24Z")
Quite incidentally this is also a nice touch for RP. Formations that are redlined due to excessive losses are rotated back into the rear for some rest and recreation and reinforcement. For sure a little time off to process the death of Corporal Muller and the rest of 6th Squad would do those Grunts good. ---
**Author:** ![Kristover](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/aurora4x.com/kristover/32/436_2.png) [@Kristover](https://aurora4x.com/u/Kristover)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/has-anyone-tried-to-make-a-troop-transfer-station/1142/4 "2026-09-29T19:52:10Z")
One thing I tend to do in most - but not all - my games is once I start expanding 10-15 jumps out from my home system is to create large Starbases which I tow into position. The SBs will have large amount of hangers, MSP production, and fuel (if I can, I’ll park them in a gas giant and have sorium harvesters on them) for logisitcs. I will also base a Marine Brigade (25KT force) with a dedicated transport to do emergency response.