However arriving on Center and getting the opportunity to acquire HAL was amazing. She has turned out to be quite the AI once installed and functioning. The mission was an overall success and along the way everyone was able to take advantage of an opportunity or two leaving them with a little extra credits so the pressure of taking the first desperate job to come along is gone. This next one should be good. Well, with the party over it is time to head down and find a job and Castruccio says he has a nice job lined up that will cover the next few payments on The Remorseless.
As you leave the ship and head into the docking station the loud voice of who ever recorded the announcement can be heard drowning out everything in a clear precise Trade 6. “Welcome to Center. You are in Station Agridon, Section 13, Pier 42. Please take note of your birth number for when returning.” The voice then carries on again in Trade 3, 4 and 5 with the same message before cycling around to Trade 6.
Generally everyone liked getting a berth at Agridon station. The moorage fees were manageable, the restaurants where only a little more expensive than most and security was good. Making their way through the station the crew feels like things are getting stale enough it is time for a job, no one makes money sitting around after all.
The hard part is getting scheduled through a gate but you were able to get one set up for the team and have three hours to grab a bite to eat and head down. Thinking about it as you ready yourself to head down you have a chance to grab a delicious bit to eat and visit a bit with each other before heading to the Naruni Free Trade Zone.
After your meal you head down to the center of the space station where the technicians operate the machines that rift people into and out of center. Waiting in line should only take half an hour and then you will be on the easy track to Level 4.
As you arrive through the gate you are again in the true economic center of the the megaverse. Phase World and Center in particular is at the center of three Galaxies that have been trapped by each others gravity for eons and will remain trapped together for eons more. With direct gate to hundreds of dimensions and functioning gates to thousands of space stations orbiting the planet. The 600 millions residents of Center are accessorized by fully the same number again that many in visitors every year. This time you happen to be among them. As you arrive in Level 2-A you find it is crowded with tens of thousands of visitors at any given time and sector you find there is little room for anything more than walking. The journey to 4-A The Free Trade Zone would normally take a over an hour of walking and riding as you fight the crowds, navigate the public transportation and the checkpoints. But luckily with Malcolm in the team such a trip can be done in only a dozen minutes.
Approaching Nickel Tower as you prepare to meet with Castruccio who’s office and central place of business is located on the 12th floor of the tower that runs from floor to ceiling. The phase field operating around the tower have always given a bit of a off feeling to those with dimensional sensibilities. But when you owe the Naruni you know you come when they have contracts.