As Zahra suggested, you all meet back at the ship within two hours of the lunch with Khadija.
The Riyad is docked at the Neoptra Spaceport - the largest of the four commercial spaceports in Coriolis. Located in the Ring section of Coriolis and just below the Spice Plaza, each entrance to the spaceport has a security checkpoint and customs station. As you've done many times before, you briefly wait in line to get scanned by sensors. Customs officers with Vulcan rifles and armanite weave ask you to hand over any weapons that you might possess and request to see your permits for those weapons. Your tags or transactors are then checked in order to confirm your identity, ship registration, and travel plans. Once through the checkpoint, you are given back your weapons. You then proceed to a lift or escalator to descend into the spaceport.
OOC:
For ease of play, I'm going to assume that any of you who started with weapons also begin with the licenses for those weapons. If you choose to purchase any weapon after character creation, then make sure to purchase a license for that weapon, as well. A license typically costs the same price as the weapon, per year. Alternately, those with the
Licensed talent do not need to purchase licenses.
For newcomers to Coriolis, the Neoptra Spaceport is the first impression one gets about the station. The main terminal is an expansive, stadium-sized open room with shining floors of white Kuan marble, walls with beautiful bas-reliefs, and rows of sturdy pillars ascending a hundred feet to the ceiling. Intermixed with the spaceport's sleek and modernized decor are less refined areas of armanite bulkheads and riveted plating. You walk passed small cantinas, shops, and market stalls catering to the newly arrived ship crews at the port; a sort of miniature version of the larger plazas. Above you are a large number of crescent-shaped balconies and mezzanines that follow the arch of the station's outer hull. These balconies make up the spaceports different levels, and many of them are connected to private docking facilities for those rich enough to afford them.
At this time of the day, the spaceport is bustling. New ships have arrived, others are departing, and things are frenetic. There is an energy in the air that's not unlike the Spice Plaza. Stevedore crews are offloading their ships, moving cargo with grav lifts, and restocking supplies. Passengers hurriedly rush to catch their courier vessel before it leaves port. Priests representing the Church of the Icons are blessing ships in the name of the Traveler, in return for a small donation. Security guards escort a merchant and his alien livestock to a quarantine area for disease testing. A free trader argues loudly with a customs officer over import fees. Announcements blare constantly in both Zeni and Kuan. Despite how large the port is, it still manages to be crowded with people and activity.
Once you make your way through the main terminal, you enter a maze of corridors that leads you away from the public docking area and to the smaller commercial docking bays. It's here in one of these bays that you see your ship, The Riyad, waiting patiently where you left it.
The Riyad is a Class III "Scarab" light freighter. As such, it's small enough to dock inside one of the internal docking bays rather than attached to the station's Ring externally. Compared to other Class III freighters, the Scarab model is very compact and space efficient, which, in addition to its precision thruster system, makes it fast and maneuverable, as well as easy to dock in tight spaces. The ship's copper colored hull, twin accelerator cannons, and clear-domed topside arboretum are perhaps the vessel's most notable visual features. The Riyad's four landing struts give it the appearance of a giant, four-legged mechanical beast.
The ship has finished being serviced and is fully stocked for another round of trips.
