Orchid Crossing

Orchid Crossing is a spacestation operated by the Solstar Order from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Orbiting the planet Xetaxxis, Orchid Crossing is a massive space station owned and operated by the Solstar Order. One of the many outposts and command hubs utilized in the war against the Dire Wraiths, it can hold an impressive amount of spacecraft and is large enough to allow Cybertronians to move about freely.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

After a training cruise at Mining Colony 25-6-41, a group of Space Knights docked at Orchid Crossing. Later on, Rom and Livia explained to Stardrive that the station would play host to a diplomatic meeting between the Order and the Galactic Council to allow the Knights safe passage into Council territory with Stardrive herself acting as proof that the Solstar Order was capable of controlling Cybertronians.

The next morning, a Council delegation arrived and was quick to shed its disguise revealing themselves to be a Dire Wraith/Decepticon alliance. Taking the Knights by surprise, the invaders murdered members of the Solstar Order with impunity as Starscream made his way to Stardrive's energon synthesizer (using Stardrive to break down a wall). Shining Armor #1

Having picked up on Starscream's scheme, Autobots, Ultra Magnus, Bumblebee and Sky Blast tracked the Decepticons to Orchid Crossing. Ordering Sky Blast to remain with the ship, Shining Armor #2 Ultra Magnus and Bumblebee blew a hole in the hull and arrived face to face with Starscream. Rom tried to get them to stand down but none of the Cybertronians so much at glanced at him. Shining Armor #1

He rectified this by shooting Magnus in the arm who simply shot the Knight though a wall. The chaos of the fighting destroyed the station's structural integrity and only its forcefield held it together. When Sky Blast boarded the station, he was assaulted by a Dire Wraith and the two became an ungodly Wraith/Cybertronian hybrid that tore through everything. Finding the battle lost, Ultra Magnus deactivated the station's forcefield causing Orchid Crossing to fall into Xetaxxis's gravity well in an attempt to slay the hybrid. Starscream decided to pick the energon synthesizer from the wreckage of the station but Vekktral observed that the hybrid had survived the station's violent reentry. Shining Armor #2