Station

The word station is commonly used to mean:

1) Transit stations

A place where you embark and disembark on a train or other mass-transit system

2) Line stations

A satellite in geostationary orbit, usually connected to the surface by downline cables and elevators, where interplanetary craft can dock without entering a planet's gravity well.

3) Shadownet stations

Where shadownet messages are assembled and encrypted before being upstreamed to a temple ship's ghostnet mirror.