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Moravia Orbital Colony, Ulysses | 237d/3008AD | Von Hapsburg System
Megacity Time: 4:59'Coming in hot, looks like the station's slightly off course. Increase thrust to compensate...'The VIP passenger sections of the ship, suspended in a shock-absorbing net, hardly moves. The same cannot be said for the six Guild-aligned infiltrators, along with the rest of the cargo team. They are stuck in the work bay, which jinks around with every bit of acceleration.
The
Endurance is a torch-ship, equipped with a monster of a drive capable of constant acceleration for extended periods of time. A constant stream of nuclear explosions violently pushes the ship along at a steady acceleration of 9.82 meters per second squared. The ship's fusion reactor is miniscule in comparison, located in the midsection of the ship and generating paltry in comparison to the raging inferno that is the main engine.
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Megacity Time: 5:17Endurance coasts into orbit. By now, the torch drives have been cut, and maneuvering thursters are active. In a few minutes, the ship will approach the station and the docking clamps will engage.
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Megacity Time: 5:23The hull shudders as massive beams of steel, reinforced with precious carbon nanocomposite, embrace the ship. Maintainence drones begin downloading schematics data and start performing inspections in case something went wrong during the voyage. A large curtain is drawn around the torch-drive, wrapping it in a giant bag of dense hydrocarbons designed to soak any harmful radiation the engine is still emitting. Finally, the boarding tunnels are fixed into place over the airlocks.
Passengers begin to board the station, starting with the VIP's.
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Moravia Docking Pier A
Bustling Traffic (Lose all of your Diplomacy and convert it to a 1:1 Initiative bonus)
Megacity Time: 5:32The time comes for the undercover Guild operatives to pass customs. The inspection takes place in a large hallway with four stations. For added secrecy, the guild operatives have spread themselves out across all four lines. A holographic screen 'above' paints a vista of the gas giant Ulysses as a backdrop to the twisted web of starships, docks, habitat sections, and containers that makes up the interior of the otherwise ring-shaped megacity. Right in the center of the grav-ring is the corporate headquarters, buried within meters of nanocomposite and and visited only by shuttle. This is your target.
[No suspicious items]
McMarlo is welcomed aboard the station. The customs agent tips his hat at the celebrity as he passes through the gate.
[1/5]
Ziggo trips the contaminant sensors as he walks through. After being subjected to a search, his vest of hidden poisons is discovered and confiscated on the grounds that poisons are potential terror weapons, although he is allowed to keep the antidotes. [3] He is able to convince the customs agents that he is not a terrorist, and that he is just simply mentally insane. The guards give him a slip that tells him to be present at the nearest psychiatric ward before local time 6:30.
[No suspicious items]
Nerin and
Valrak pass through without complications, although the inspector scoffs at them at first site. KX9's aren't highly regarded by most humans.
[3]
Deuce manages to slip his incendiary grenade through, claiming it to be a cooking spray.
[4]
Atlos brought a forged license supplied to him by the guild in order to get his fishtank through. As an accessibility device, it is allowed and Atlos is able to proceed through. However...
[3]
WARDEN was informed that sapient robotics are not allowed on the station. However, personal assistant units are, and so he follows closely behind Atlos, licensed as a personal assistant and housekeeping robot. In order to avoid suspicions, however, you'll have to act non-sentient.
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Megacity Time: 5:45The six agents reunite at the end of customs inspection. Their team is located inside a lobby area, subdivided into waiting areas by benches and potted plants. Small food and novelty stores with overpriced goods line the sides, while just up ahead is a hallway leading to a grand five-story lobby, consisting of five ring-shaped levels around a single massive, teal-colored tree that extends past the top level and into a maintenance floor where water supplies and life support is managed. There is a group of human children lined up at the guard rails trying to grab needles off the colossal tree, while their parents converse with each other several meters away. One of them seems to be climbing halfway up the forbidden glass panel, reaching hopelessly as his tiny arm isn't even half as long as it needs to be.
The current level (Level 3) of the lobby is otherwise populated with working-class citizens of various backgrounds, some alien, most human. The occasional security guard does a few laps as part of a patrol, but for the most part the lobby is watched by security cameras at all times.
Panhandlers are present, as ever, but here in the modern age they play not instruments, but video games. Some bring consoles and projectors, challenging people to defeat them in a popular fighting game (
Protectors of the Multiverse). This seems to be a custom, as there are three sections of wall appropriated for this task.
One particular three-armed man sits next to a briefcase filled with coins as he singlehandedly controls all three party members on three different controllers in the post-apocalyptic RPG
Rise of a Fallen Age. A legendary run, it seems.
A trio of business-suit clad gentlemen pass by. It seems they are discussing the recent insolvency of a bank on Britannia, one of the Republic of Georgia's largest moons.
A pair of women wearing lab coats rushes from one of the many the exits to the lobby. They seem to be scanning the crowd for somebody in particular.
A large group of activists (15) protesting working conditions on Ulysses and "spreading awareness" is promptly arrested and taken to the southwest entrance.
An electric cart carrying "hot dogs", a traditional human dish, stops along the lobby's rim, its operators preparing to sell their product. The cart came from the northwest entrance, labelled with the following:
AllMart Office Complex
Factory Complex A
Cargo Services
Will's, Bill's, and Bently's Brokerage Services
Docking Pier B
Galactic™ Mall
Persson Residential Tower
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