Shopping Trip - Walkabout Info

[powersthatbe]

Escape from Junkworld: Shopping Trip
An outer space walkabout
June 9th–July 19th

It had been a long voyage, full of strange and unexpected events (especially in the first half of their escape), but the refugees from Junkworld Gehenna finally reached their destination, a class-M moon belonging to the gas giant known only by its alpha-numerical designation: S16P3J4W11V18, so chosen because a few of the former Junkworlders had ties with a smuggling group that had their secret base there. With help from the smugglers, the former Junkworlders were able to make themselves a new home on the forest-covered moon.

With the influx of refugees, there was finally enough of a labor force for smugglers and Junkworlders alike to start taking advantage of the moon’s natural resources. Now, more than a year since the refugees made it planetside, the Junkworlders’ ship, The Empress of Moths, has been sent with a hold full of trade goods to Portabellow Station: a hollowed-out planetoid whose interior is one extremely large marketplace. Here refugees and smugglers alike can sell their goods, buy supplies, and trade goods and services, while the Empress herself undergoes a rather thorough refurbishing at the ship docks.

Of course, what refugees and smugglers alike don’t realize is that there are still bounties on many of them--and some of those bounties are for fairly high sums.

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Comments

[powersthatbii]

Basically, everything's run on capitalism. There's no actual government so to say, just the various businesses, some of which are bigger than the others. If you want things like utilities, you pay into them. This even goes so far as station security. If you want them to patrol near where you have your store, you pay up to the security fund. This is why the only real crimes are shoplifting and property damage, because those are the things people pay the station security to prevent.

The station's attitude toward synths is different from the official attitude. Officially, synth money is just as good as any other money but from a practical standpoint people will probably follow the opinions of their own species.

(... I forget, have you read the Vorkosigan books? Basically, the station is a little like Komarr, a bit more like Jackson's Whole--only not so much a wretched hive of scum and villany (yet)--and the high value of wood I took straight from Beta Colony.)

P.S. The databases would probably mention how much the various businesses charge for parking/airspace tolls in the vicinity of their buildings.