Talk:The Ark/@comment-90.192.241.155-20160217012154

i apologise in advance for this posts length but it has valid research behind it worth the read

ok so i did legit in depth analysis of the ark through its appearances and have come to share my findings on the ark structure. first off with the real world confirmation of the ark having cannibalised satellites and the surprising similarity/symmetry between certain stations the original 12 nation stations were probably heavily cannibalized and redistributed to balance the arks mass as it does seem pretty scientifically sound in regards to that so saying a station has a flag on it so it was once "this" country may not be accurate as the flag could be on a chunk that was transferred elsewhere in construction and the dropship has multiple flags on it but anyway...

station 1 - go sci - most well known self explanatory, left in orbit

station 2 - mecha - heat radiator panelling around edge gives it a gear shape also well known and confirmed by WAGP2 screen, crashes on earth and evacuated.

station 3 - factory - confirmed in WAGP2 on screen as the ISS styled one with the 4 arrays of what appear to be more heat radiator panels, hits a cliff and shatters.

station 4 - arrow - compare WAGP2 screen with the furthest left ark part in the 1st pic of the gallery above. - destroyed (see below)

station 5 - hydro/hydra - hexagonal panelled, the green lit one seen in gallery pic 2 based on WAGP2 pic showing a complete pattern of circles inside the hexagons whereas the other hexagonal station has more scattered patterns. - destroyed (see below)

station 6 - tesla - WAGP2 image matches shape of the station that fires the thrusters to propel the ark out of orbit - (status unknown)

beyond this point stations become hard to isolate with certainty but not impossible. the space view only shows one side, arrow suffers damage which hits hydra hydra is seen blowing up and arrow is far too thin and wiry in appearance to survive entry, from the earth perspective they would be falling behind/above mecha but only rubble is seen and when paused at the right time the shattered corners of hydras hexagon structure can be seen falling - arrow and hydra are both presumably destroyed.

station 7 - a station breaks off in reentry and violently explodes gallery pic 11 top left corner. unnamed so far.

in the first shot of the ark falling from the earth perspective stations can be identified.

mecha falls to the left - above it debris from hydra, arrow and station 7 fall,

to the far right a seemingly disk shaped station falls further right

station 8 - alpha - alpha is clearly ring shaped, smaller in scale than go sci, compare the size of the alpha ring with people walking into it in season 2 with the scale of jaha in WAGP2 zoom out alpha is notably smaller in scale and is likely one of the 2 ring shaped sections at each end of the central axis, as it is stated to take 5 minutes for the guard to get from medical to mecha jaha gets from alpha to go-sci really quickly in WAGP2 to launch the ark so alpha is likely the ring inside the go sci ring between go sci and tesla. - status (arkadia - cool nod to the novels ;D)

station 9 - prison - stated in episodes to be a station damaged by unity day - when the lights go out they do fail one station at a time adding validity to the boundaries between them. seen by the zoom in on clarks cell to at least encompass the rotating blocks on the axis of the station. as the ark falls in the earth view shot a disk with a long pole can be seen pointing towards the ground before exploding in the air, as the stations seperated if we take the far right ring as alpha and the station firing landing rockets to the right of mecha as tesla, flipped in order to throw alpha right and flip the main axis to face earth then prison station spans the central axis of the ark that all other stations join to.

station 10 - to the immediate right of the falling "prison station" is a spiralling rectangular block glowing from reentry, its basic shape best matches an unnamed station seen in gallery image 3 at the top centre of the image it's fate is unknown as prison station exploding covers it from view.

station 11 - between station 10 and alpha in the ark fall can be seen a sizable object tumbling and glowing from reentry, it is either the remnants of factory or the station identical to station 7 that can be seen near mecha in the opening shot of pilot behind prison station. depending on which station this object is the other is likely the cross shaped station glowing from entry seen above prison station which is obscured by prison station exploding leaving its fate unknown.

station 12 - agro/farm - the other hexagonal designed station, seen in gallery pic 4 near the centre of the image in front of go-sci, can be seen below prison station glowing from reentry and breaking up. revealled only survived as it landed in snow. reasons for believing it is farm station are its proximity to the food areas which are based on ark zoom shots located in the rotating blocks on the main axis directly beneath this station, seems valid to keep these 2 locations close.

so station 7, hydra, arrow & prison blew up, go sci is left in space, alpha, mecha, factory and farm are confirmed on the ground. tesla and stations 10 and 11 are currently unknown fates.

station 13 was blasted out of the sky prior to ark formation - could just mean destroyed so it is possible remnants were salvaged to build the ark.