Millennium Gateway Launch Platform

The Millenium Gateway Launch Platform was the deep space orbital platform that was a multi-national effort for a permanent colonization effort on Mars, the second step following the Lunar Colony Program. It's sister station was named Altair 

It would be the first platform of its kind and would be constructed using components from Mir, and the ISS which had been preserved after being pushed into a higher orbit in 1998, and later 2025 respectively.

The Millenium Gateway was an unusual construction, considering it was built at the height of World War III as a peaceful program between the East and West. It was manned by a crew of 250 with rotations of one year, where they conducted scientific experiments, and later refueling programs for Hermes as part of Ares I-IV as well as Gargarin I-III. It would however, become derelict by 2055 with the remaining crew helpless as they watched the nuclear war unfold. The system would lose all power and the 89 remaining crew were forced to evacuate.