Tangled Web
This is the original novel that I started in the 80's. As you can imagine, I've had to update it considerably. The basic plot is this: the company who built and owns this space station, which provides the only gateway to the Kohr system, is WebbCo. WebbCo is exploiting its citizens, charging exorbitant rental amounts for both business and personal spaces. There is a faction called the United Webb Workers, which is campaigning for workers' rights. A kidnapping catapults the station into civil war, the first ever on a space station.
The main character is Anay, owner of a popular bar in the so-called WebbCore section of the station. WebbCore is the section of the space station that is innermost, where the cables, wiring and pipes originate for the rest of the station. Of course, like the other inhabitants, Anay has no claim to the physical space that her business occupies, and in WebbCore that is doubly true, because none of the building in that area is legal, it's all cobbled together from leftover materials. Those who live there do not pay rent, but they are subject to imminent eviction. WebbCo Security comes through and, on a whim, can and do roust interlopers, destroying the homes and businesses they have created.
Anay is actually the daughter of a man who rose through the ranks of WebbCo management. Originally Rede Tewel was the primary supervisor of the construction crew who built the station. He is now an executive in the organization and is put in the embarrassing position of defending her when she makes statements against WebbCo's policies and publicly supports the UWW.
