If you can hear this, it's because Chatarra Gris is coming to YOUR system! Make sure to take some days off and come aboard! Our current temporary expositions are [PLANET KITUS' WONDERFUL FAUNA] and [A DAY ON PERDURO]. The station is scheduled to arrive at your nearest WayHall in [TEN DAYS]. Preorder tickets get 20% off! Get yours today!Chatarra Gris is a well-known space station in the Federation of Free Planets that moves from system to system, filled with curiosities and experiences from all the banner's planets.
Purpose
First built with the sole idea of entertainment, Chatarra Gris became a beacon of the Federation's cultural diversity and one of its keystone. The Planetary Senate knew well that this same variety could become a threat to the banner's stability if handled poorly, and charged the founders of Chatarra Gris with the responsibility of spreading it. The station receives funds from the Senate and help from the Archive . Some members of its museum branch work directly in Chatarra Gris, gathering materials for its many attractions and organizing expositions.Attractions
Immersion decks
Immersion decks are the main and most famous entertainment of Chatarra Gris. They combine many technologies and work from biologists to recreate environments from various worlds in the banner. Lightning and weather are recreated using lamps and fans scattered around the rooms. Distant landscapes and sceneries are made with holograms. Close flora, environment, and assets are directly collected from the planet and placed in the rooms. Visitors are free to touch the decor as long as they do not break anything. They are guided via a beaconed way on the ground and will see a light grid appear if they come too close to a wall.Expositions and activities
Chatarra Gris' expositions look like giant museums, showcasing parts of a world's nature or history. Researchers visit the given world and work with the locals to build their exhibits. Each displayed piece has holograms showing various information about it, whether via text, 3D images or animations. Aside from the expositions, Chatarra Gris also has many stalls with various activities. Snowboarding on an artificial snowy slope, getting insight on your future... the station's staff is always looking for exciting experiences to bring aboard.VR Experiences
An independent game-dev studio works in the station. They create small games for people to enjoy in Chatarra's many VR rooms, equipped with the best hardware existing. Just like the rest of the attractions, these games promote the Federation's culture. Players can split mountains using Diggers' shovel, fight frozen hounds herds from planet Kitus in a fully immersive environment.Themed hotels and restaurants
Even hotels and restaurants are attractions in some way. They are always themed as the current Immersive decks' experiences. Chefs from the given worlds are invited aboard to craft a special menu, and hotels change their decorations in the same way.Don't ask me why people pay to sleep in a shitty miner's cabin, I have no clue.
Ship structure
Chatarra Gris is made of two ships moored together. The main and largest one is also the most recent and best looking. The second one is the oldest, a weird assemblage of scraps and parts sometimes linked together via "homemade conduits." It gave its name to the station and was kept as an important part of the Federation's history.First Ship
Chatarra Gris's larger ship is where all the main attractions are. It is a massive station with 7 decks for the customers to enjoy. On the "top" of the structure are the staff quarters. It is where everyone working in the station lives and where the management team works. Just below is the main deck. It is also the entrance to Chatarra Gris, and where restaurants, hotels and souvenir shops are. The most prominent part of the ship hosts the three Immersion decks of the structure. As they need a lot of energy, they were built just above the ship's energetic core. At the very bottom of the station is the temporary expositions and activities deck. It is where artists from various planets come to showcase their art and where smaller attractions can be found.Second ship
The second ship is smaller and older than the first one. It only has three "decks" hosting the permanent expositions and activities of Chatarra Gris. The first deck is dedicated to VR experiences, with many rooms equipped with last generation hardware. The second and third decks are where the permanent expositions and observing bays are.Chatarra was such a fucking mess before we funded it. You could hear the walls shaking all the time. They invited me over for a visit after many improvements, they said. I went to have a piss, and the lightning went off. I thought "Okay, this place is a real shithole" but right after I left the room started to shout depressurizing alerts. Then I knew it was fucking shitty.
Type
Orbital, Station
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