In the next day, you go back to the train station and grab a train to
Central. Tickets are 5 credits per person.
OOC:
I will deduct from the shared funds.
The trains themselves are short, just a small electric locomotive and a carriage or two at most. There are often a couple of freight cars attached to the back of a train but these are usually empty; they are simply not uncoupled when not needed because that would require someone to do it. You discover that there are
just seventeen people working at the railroad, serving three main and a few more minor stations, plus the rail depot at the capital. As such, the railroad staff are already overworked just running a train every day.
However, despite the somewhat primitive transport, the journey does not take very long and soon
Central Station comes into sight. It is located on the edge of the capital, a town that looks remarkably like the one you just left in many ways, though it is smaller. There is no starport, but there is a large lake with islands to the north. This is
Central Lake, named because it lies more or less in the centre of the island.
The town is the rail hub for the island, with a line out from here to each of the larger towns.
Central City actually has a reasonable service industry -
restaurants, hotels, shops, rentals - as anyone travelling from one settlement to another by train will almost certainly have to stop over here. There are also a couple of government-owned
factories and the
dictator’s palace, which serves as a governmental centre.