recycled for a refund
of the tokens if they became broken or empty.
Naisha went to a third store and picked up some
training gear pulling from a third pool of tokens. Here she got a pair of
running shoes and some stretch bands so she could do some resistance training
in her quarters first thing when she woke up. She still had some tokens left in
all three pools but didn’t feel the need to burn them all, but she did head to
the civilian stores and bought a few things with credits, including a bag of
candy that was sold as being tailored specifically to Protovic physiology.
It was by far the best candy she’d ever had back on
Onyx and she wanted to keep a supply of it in her quarters at all times. It
cost her 1.4 credits per bag, but it was worth it when she came back from a
workout with a sugar low and didn’t feel like heading over to the cafeteria to
eat. Some people took prepackaged foodstuffs back to their quarters to store up
a small stockpile, but all of the warm foods were meant to be eaten on site.
Private companies made meals that could be prepared in your quarters using
modular cooking equipment, but Naisha didn’t care for those. A regular candy
snack was enough to get her by until she found enough energy to get herself
back over to the cafeteria to eat rather than work.
She wasn’t sure what would be different here, but
assumed that most of the procedures would be the same. The grace window she had
after transit was three days, but she went ahead and reported for work as soon
as she got herself settled that first day. She spent a 4 hour shift then headed
off for a workout in one of the local gymnasiums before allowing herself the
luxury to explore her new home…or some of it, for the city was massive.
She and the rest of the citizens pretty much had
access to everything, with only a few restricted sections for those with
clearance beyond hers. One of those was the shipyards, for the city had a
surface facility that was working in the open air beneath a shield dome to keep
the weather out. Naisha eventually found her way to an observation deck on a
tower that overlooked the shipyard and sat down on one of the bar stools
sipping a confection drink along with others that were there to enjoy the view
of the city or the broadcasts on the vid screens that were showing everything
from news to sports.
All the faces she had seen since arriving here were
Protovic and her red variety. Supposedly there were a handful of purple here
that had come from Axius and even the other Protovic civilization that was an
ally of Star Force, but they must have been so few in number to disappear
amongst the masses.
It was odd, for everyone was the same. She’d gotten
used to there being different races everywhere, but aside from the occasional
Human this colony was all Protovic. That brought up a few memories of the
Veliquesh, but things here were so different, so open, that the comparison
fizzed immediately.
Looking out the windows she could see the drone
warships she’d heard about. Rather than adopt the standard Star Force block
style or use one of the other factions’ blueprints the Protovic had designed
and begun to build their own version. It wasn’t much of a deviation, but they
were using triangular wedges that would come together in fours that would then
form a solid square, making for no wasted volume during transport onboard a
jumpship.
Right now there were three of the drones under
construction within sight, along with several starships that took on a more
unique design and incorporated the typical Protovic hammerhead motif into a blocky
back segment rather than the X-design. These starships, Naisha knew, were for
local transit within the system. Many more were promised to come, but the
Protovic fleet was only in its infancy. There were two other shipyards on the
planet and four more in orbit working to build that military and civilian fleet,
but it was going to take a long time to increase their numbers, for
of the tokens if they became broken or empty.
Naisha went to a third store and picked up some
training gear pulling from a third pool of tokens. Here she got a pair of
running shoes and some stretch bands so she could do some resistance training
in her quarters first thing when she woke up. She still had some tokens left in
all three pools but didn’t feel the need to burn them all, but she did head to
the civilian stores and bought a few things with credits, including a bag of
candy that was sold as being tailored specifically to Protovic physiology.
It was by far the best candy she’d ever had back on
Onyx and she wanted to keep a supply of it in her quarters at all times. It
cost her 1.4 credits per bag, but it was worth it when she came back from a
workout with a sugar low and didn’t feel like heading over to the cafeteria to
eat. Some people took prepackaged foodstuffs back to their quarters to store up
a small stockpile, but all of the warm foods were meant to be eaten on site.
Private companies made meals that could be prepared in your quarters using
modular cooking equipment, but Naisha didn’t care for those. A regular candy
snack was enough to get her by until she found enough energy to get herself
back over to the cafeteria to eat rather than work.
She wasn’t sure what would be different here, but
assumed that most of the procedures would be the same. The grace window she had
after transit was three days, but she went ahead and reported for work as soon
as she got herself settled that first day. She spent a 4 hour shift then headed
off for a workout in one of the local gymnasiums before allowing herself the
luxury to explore her new home…or some of it, for the city was massive.
She and the rest of the citizens pretty much had
access to everything, with only a few restricted sections for those with
clearance beyond hers. One of those was the shipyards, for the city had a
surface facility that was working in the open air beneath a shield dome to keep
the weather out. Naisha eventually found her way to an observation deck on a
tower that overlooked the shipyard and sat down on one of the bar stools
sipping a confection drink along with others that were there to enjoy the view
of the city or the broadcasts on the vid screens that were showing everything
from news to sports.
All the faces she had seen since arriving here were
Protovic and her red variety. Supposedly there were a handful of purple here
that had come from Axius and even the other Protovic civilization that was an
ally of Star Force, but they must have been so few in number to disappear
amongst the masses.
It was odd, for everyone was the same. She’d gotten
used to there being different races everywhere, but aside from the occasional
Human this colony was all Protovic. That brought up a few memories of the
Veliquesh, but things here were so different, so open, that the comparison
fizzed immediately.
Looking out the windows she could see the drone
warships she’d heard about. Rather than adopt the standard Star Force block
style or use one of the other factions’ blueprints the Protovic had designed
and begun to build their own version. It wasn’t much of a deviation, but they
were using triangular wedges that would come together in fours that would then
form a solid square, making for no wasted volume during transport onboard a
jumpship.
Right now there were three of the drones under
construction within sight, along with several starships that took on a more
unique design and incorporated the typical Protovic hammerhead motif into a blocky
back segment rather than the X-design. These starships, Naisha knew, were for
local transit within the system. Many more were promised to come, but the
Protovic fleet was only in its infancy. There were two other shipyards on the
planet and four more in orbit working to build that military and civilian fleet,
but it was going to take a long time to increase their numbers, for
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