noanga_ooc | Arda Space Mall Infomation

ARDA SPACE MALL
Overview

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 shuttle bay that has seen better days. Inside are several small shuttles known as 'Jumpers'. Characters can take them to visit to the mall.

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

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.

Space Mall Directory

The Concourse

Stellar Threads – Apparel for every climate, including chameleon-fiber cloaks and vacuum-rated saris. Prices are medium to expensive.

Gleam & Grime – Jewellery featuring semi-radioactive gemstones with appropriate warnings. Prices start in the $$$ and go to the $$$$$

The Neutral Flavour Café – Food safe for 80% of known digestive systems.

Pufflepod Pets – Exotic companions like space hamsters with biocage starter kits.

Federation Bank - A Federation-owned bank with ATMs; accepts all major cards.

Zero-G Threads – Fast Fashion store; most known for selling the AdaBrand clothing that changes colour based on character's moods.

Chrono Timepieces – Shop with watches and clocks that sync to the dozen Capital Worlds of the Federation itself, the GeniaMining HQ, or one of the many asteroids being mined. Sometimes sells normal watches.

Foodies Court

N’thak Grill – Charred meat skewers with spice oils, this is considered one of Arda's delicacies.

Golden Kelp Noodle Bar – Bioluminescent noodle bowls that glow; they're surprisingly tasty and resemble the beef bowls of Earth.

Chill Swirl 9000 – Sells ice creams like Plasma Cherry, Moondust Vanilla, and Untranslatable #17.

Nebula Nibbles – A food stall specialising in glowfruit smoothies and carbonated star-dust drinks.

Grav-Grill – “Cooked under six gravities of pressure!” The burgers come compressed into dense nutrient pucks. Space hardtack, after a fashion.

Crystal Lotus – A serene tea house serving tea infused with magic. Patrons may accidentally share thoughts.

The Rec Dome

Gravity Flip Arena – Low-G capture-the-flag with stun nets. Can be played as a group or 1v1.

Dreamwave VR Pods – Rentable pods for gaming, be it VR or not. Games of offer are small local games from the local region of space, and the Federation Wide popular games: Combat de Morte, DungeonCraft, and Song of Silk.

The Wall – A 20-foot climbing zone with shifting holds that comes in three difficultly levels and ten variations. On entering, you agree that Management is not responsible for any accidents or injuries obtained, unless the equipment fails. (According to Management: The equipment does not fail.)

The Bounce Chamber – A low-gravity trampoline park. Popular with the youth, and the site of many a playground fight, much to the adults chargrin.

Timezone – Retro arcade with pinball machines and the like. It's very noisy, bright, and if you collect enough tickets, you win prizes. Currently on offer as grand prizes are Giant Microbe Toys.

Tech and Trinkets

Patchwork Parts – Not the best shop to be in for tech or the like, but one can find drones, droid parts, smaller parts for things like computers or shuttles, and dubious tech upgrades that may or may not contain viruses are all on offer. There is a chance you can find something to connect up to Fed-Net here.

Artifacts & Oddities – A boutique that more or less upsells bric-a-brac. It's fairly popular. It also offers charms of all kinds, small holo-posters, affirmation stones, and prayer stones, including a few in the vague shape of a goose.

Good Images Stationery – Run by the Mycelia known as Goota, it sells planners, logs, colouring books with the hallmarks of AI-generated images, alongside various tabloids, magazines and other office stationary. Goota refutes the claim it uses AI - and is happy to prove it; its drawings are hilariously inaccurate. It also doesn't seem to care if customers buy anything or not.

If asked why it's here, it'll tell you 'Arda is Interesting'

Rust Rat Traders – Located outside the main mall, this area sells salvaged parts from local derelicts within the Malta system. You can likely find smaller parts that can be used to patch up some of the Noanga.

Species found in the Arda System

The species visiting the mall are many and varied. Both in height and familiarity; if you can think it, they can likely be found here. The following are but a selection of peoples to be found.

Nathair
Visual: Serpent-people (art by Fenix)
Serpentiods that stand roughly 10ft tall and about 25ft long when fully grown, they're one of the founding members of the Federation. They're not the only serpent-species in the Federation, but they are the only ones found in Arda, most of whom where born here.

They dislike Terrans and will be very quick to report any suspected Terrans to security. Despite being skilled with magic, they rely on magical items, as magic isn't something that comes as naturally to them as other species.

Harpies
Visual: Three ladies and a male. (art from Flight Rising)
Avianoids of some kind, females top out at roughly 12ft, though average more towards 10ft tall. Highly skilled with magic and claws, they're very fast and agile in the air. For every thirty women, there is one heavily guarded male. They have a beef with Kenku, another avianoid species, for some reason, and get along with Sirens, a similar-ish species from a sector of space.

The women of the species know luring magic, and the species is considered to be part of the larger 'fae' groupings.

Lamia
Visual: They are basically 'cattaurs'.
The ones you'll see are 'liontaurs', who tend towards clans known as Prides and are roughly 15ft tall. They tend towards real-life lion colours. Of the Lamia running around, about five of them have a pair of black pauldrons with gold trimming on them. This marks them as part of Renoi's Pride, Sunstride, and they tend to get preferential treatment from security and shop owners. If you start a fight or get into one with them, you'll be in the wrong, arrested, and probably in the Crosshairs of one of the Tribunes. (comment here if you get into a fight with them!)

Elves
The two species found within the Arda are Dark Elves (paper-white skin and black hair, pointed ears) and Drow (muted purple skin and white hair); they are not the same. Dark Elves are strictly matriarchal, while Drow are egalitarian. They tend to dislike each other to the point of bloodshed. You will probably probably see some getting kicked off the station by security over it.

Both species know magic and are classified as 'fae'.

Drakeborn
Visuals: D&D dragonborn, basically.
They come in a multitude of colours to match the dragons. They lack wings, but have a tail, stand between 8’5 and 10 feet depending on colour, age and gender. They’re not protective of their own kids though, and it’s whispered the drakes uplifted the species as no-one’s actually sure where they came from. The most (in)famous of the species is the red dragonborn known only as ‘the Krivlord’, who’s treated as both a hero and a boogeyman.

Miths
Visuals: Four examples (art from Flight Rising)
These moth-like creatures are nether insect nor mammal, but a mix of both. They love power armour, and are known for their metal-working and mining skills. They're roughly human-sized, but when in the power armour, they stand about 9ft tall.

Purinina
Visuals: Basically, Tassie Devil-like people.
Standing around 13ft, these are marsupials with a pouch. They look cute, but are actually vicious creatures if provoked. When they open their mouths to speak, it swiftly becomes clear why they have the nickname ‘devils’. Some can be found working in security.

Menuah
Visuals: Roo-kin, or to be exact, a subspecies of them (wallabies).
These guys stand at about 12ft for a male. You will see joey's (under three feet) coming and going from mum's pouch around the abdomen. They are perfectly capable of balancing on that tail, and despite looks, most are more muscle than not.

Tardi-kin
Visual: Here. (art by Fenix)
Tardigrades; a cute, eight-limbed species who stand about 16ft tall when not standing in their hind legs. One of the oldest species of the Whirlpool and or amongst the likes of turtliods and dragons in terms of livespans, depending on who’s asked (both are true). Most work in security, the loading docks due to their ability to survive extreme conditions that’d kill a cockroach, or in bio-hazards. They’re friendly and indestructible or near enough to it.

They also seem to be the species that introduced sign language to the Whirlpool at large, as they don’t exactly have voice boxes, but it doesn't stop them from getting points across, or hearing you.

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