The station was constructed after recent breakthroughts in temporal mechanics which convinced Starfleet to devote entire facilities to better understand the universe. One noted development from these structures was the ability to create temporal stasis fields within a confined region of space. It was also learnt that modifications to a ships quantum signature prevented allied ships from being affected by the field. However, those enemy ships which do not have the modifications are frozen in stasis until the field eventually destabilizes which allows time to be restored in that region of space.