ss_noanga | [Open] Arda Space Mall Vist

Who: All of you!
What: Space Mall time!
Where: Arda Space Mall; OOC info post
When: Day Ten and Day Eleven

Warnings: None?

The morning of Day Ten sees the Noanga drift within range of a space mall. Finally, a chance to get off ship... Even if they have to disguise themselves? Huh?

Navi-No helpfully supplies some disguise tech; it's not the best, but it will hide the fact that some of you are human (and or mechanical). The AI also points towards what seems to be a rather small hanger bay that has seen better days. Inside are several small shuttles known as 'Jumpers'. Characters can take them to visit to the mall, and will find they have 1000 Federation Credits to spend.

Interesting, neither kittens nor goose follow characters into a Jumper, and characters will find they are snubbed for an hour or so after returning.

The Arda Space Mall itself is a small but bustling space mall located within the Arda Asteroid Belt, around a red dwarf star also known as Arda. The belt itself is home to a thriving mining community, all employed by the GeniaMining Corporation. The Arda itself is located on an largeish asteroid and combines a space station's practical aesthetic with the local community mall’s comforts: food court, clothing outlets, hobby stores, some recreation, and a few other shops to round things out.

The average species within the community range from a human sized 6ft to roughly 15ft tall, and the mall's ceiling height is 20 feet to accommodate this.

Station security is handled by a team of Tardi-kin, but even so, the mall is full of drama - mostly from local teens wagging school, and at least one couple deciding the mall is the perfect place for a fight and the airing of dirty laundry.

But all of that is easy enough to ignore while you relax and enjoy somewhere that is not a run down spaceship.

Note: Humans and Mechanicals must disguise themselves as an alien species or risk detention by the Tardigrade Security Forces who'll assume them Terrans, and treat them as such.

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As much as Day wanted to help others, he knew that you had to care for yourself first. No fixing would be getting done if he felt too cold and sluggish to move around much. But then his standard for living was rather lower than what the ship currently offered, fixing it not his biggest priority. Just something to pass the time with and in case of him working at the kitchen, a way to ease his own anxieties. "Alright. But tell if it gets too much, we can always take a break." There'd been one store advertising 'parts' in it's name, that'd be the best start.

Æn'kae nodded. He knew he would have to at some point, he just wanted to get as much done as possible first. Because if he left, he would struggle to make himself return. He might have suggested grabbing food. But the crowd clustered around the food stalls was Especially Much, and thus he didn't even want to bother seeing if they had something plant based and more closely resembling food than the strange cubes the ship replicator was so fond of piling onto his plate. Look, he knew he ate more ration bars than most back home, but that was only because when he got busy he forgot to eat and he could keep those in his pouches indefinitely to nibble on. But he didn't actually enjoy those either, and they at least had a more tolerable texture.

"I... think I shouldn't try any more than one or two more stores before going back. I uh. I actually have a bit of a headache, it's not bad really, but my equipment won't help it without rest as well. I just. I want to do that much first, I'd regret it later if I missed the chance."

“That’s alright. Know that crowds can be a bit much.” Albeit for him it was usually the headache keeping him away from the sensory overload of it, not the other way around. And sometimes he’d still needed to go out despite it, to get money or food or just because they’d stayed in a place too long already and needed to move. Blending in was instinct, subtle shifts in how he moved and held himself, so that he was perceived as belonging to this crowd, different species and disguise or not. Should at least spare them trouble with security.

At the parts store it was clear to him soon that this was tech too advanced for what he’d be able to use. “Want me to hold your coat while looking around? Don’t spot anything I’d recognize here” Curse Republic and it’s backwards tech.

Æn'kae offered over his coat and then rubbed at the back of his neck. "It's different than what my people used. But some looks similar to what's back on the ship." He was no mechanic, but he had some knowledge, so he picked up useful items of similar technology that someone mechanically inclined might find a use for. In the end, he could only identify a few minor components and odds and ends as useful, a power cell here and a bundle of wire there, the luckiest find being an intact circuit board. Anything larger seemed in need of repair, if to a lesser degree than similar items on the ship, or completely different technology. "Well, I'm not sure this was worth our time," he grumbled. "Sorry."

Day just shrugs with a smile. "Couldn't know that before we looked, right?" He is used to shortages, to stores having empty shelves - or in the case of the gas station, getting stock that no one could identify. "There was a trader a bit outside, want to try our luck there?"

"Sure, may as well," Æn'kae replied, still at a bit of a grumble. He hadn't entirely expected to find that many parts, but that didn't mean it wasn't frustrating. "Even if it's more of the same it wouldn't hurt." It just might not do much good either.

"Could always scavenge on the ship. At least that parts are bound to match." Venture out into the broken areas, see what could still be used, then seal them off. Standard in Lake sector, where the ocean claimed a little more coastline every year. "Least we got to go out for a chance."

Æn'kae shook his head. "We could, but we don't want to risk scavenging anything that has a use for the ship we just don't recognize. As to the damaged areas. We uh. We'd need the right equipment to enter some of them safely." A pause and then he continued with the barest smirk. "Remember those outfits we both thought were too extreme? Like that, but also breathing gear, which I haven't seen yet either here or on the ship." He shrugged then, the thing was, he'd come here hoping for medical supplies only to realize there wasn't really a good shop for that and food, only to realize that section was too crowded to even bear checking, so he was going to be grumpy no matter what equipment they found (shy of a functioning medical replicator).

“Fairly sure that ship would let us know if we rip out anything important.” He considered it a bit like his forest: a big living entity made of other parts. “Though I haven’t gone far into those. The alarm freaks me out.” For a variety of reasons, but unless he found a way to silence it, better to stay away than risk panicking. “Let’s head back. If we think of anything else to get, there’s still tomorrow.”

Æn'kae shrugged. "We'd probably realize pretty quickly, but then we'd have to figure out how to reinstall it, and I uh, it doesn't seem worth the risk when most of the parts have corrosion from the environmentals running the way they do anyway." He didn't need to be asked twice about leaving, starting back the direction they'd come from immediately. "Ie. That works for me," he said with no intention of returning tomorrow.

Well, Aen'kae would know better than him how ships function. Day would perhaps return tomorrow, take another look around in case they missed anything, but he didn't want to let the other boy return alone when he wasn't feeling well. And well, got to test if they actually could bring goods back or if there was some rule forbidding it.

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