The Purple Haze

"Welcome to the Purple Haze! Someone will be with you shortly to guide you towards your table. Don´t forget to syncronize your bracelets with our menu! Our todays special are grilled Zepian tentacles with Chellfruit sauce."
-The staff greeting new guests at the Purple Haze

Nothing says multicultural society more than this little restaurant: The Purple Haze. Located in Inner Sanctum, the galaxies main capital, the Purple Haze offers a vast menu consisting of all kinds of dishes known to any civilization that ever crossed the stars, if you are carbon based or not, you´ll never leave this facility with an empty stomach.

Purpose / Function

The Purple Haze is a resturant and a bar first and foremost, with the staff having sworn to satisfy any hungry creature entering their local and never letting anyone leave sober on the weekends.
Here´s a small list of the restaurants most famous dishes and drinks:
Food:
-Glowrock Soufflet: Usually made with unfertilized Roc eggs and sand from the coasts of Idos-4, which gives the entire dish a taste akin to salted caramel.
-American Hamburger: A bun combined with meat and vegetables, favored by humans and similar species.
-Cordyzeps Mushroom Soup: Made with Arachnito sprouts, this dish has to be prepared carefully, otherwise the guest might become a new host. A risk that is certainly justified by the taste.
Drinks:
-Chellfruit Cocktail: A sweet alcoholic drink, popular among all races.
-American Root Beer: A beverage that was added to the menu when humanity joined the Covenant.
-"The Colon Torcher": Don´t.

Design

The core design of the Purple Haze is that of an old silo used to store debris, a design that was not exactly fitting for a restaurant where hundreds of guests could take place. But that changed when it was renovated from the ground up: The circular structure remained intact, now the restaurant was divided into several levels connected over stairs and escalators, almost like a mirror of the great tower Inner Sanctum where the restaurant was located. The bottom levels are mostly dance floors and bars, leaving much empty space for a dancing crowd that could swing more than just two arms around, while the upper levels are not only brighter lit but also densely packed with tables where the actual dining would take place, each level having its own kitchen.

Denizens

-Dangerous Cliff: The owner of the Purple Haze. Cliff is a Barrokka, meaning he is basically just a floating rock unable to eat anything that isn´t a bunch of smaller Rocks, however his experience with running businesses had lead him to the idea of running a large restaurant that would unite the galaxy at one dinner table, making him one of the richest individuals in the entire Covenant.
-Jafarr Osman: Yes, the Covenants High Chairman, tough he does not work at the restaurant, he is simply one of its biggest shareholders, as he values the cultural message behind the local.
-Zippa van Zepia: A female Zepian who looks like a big jellyfish, able to carry one plate in each of her several dozen tentacles. Once a master thief hired by maximum security facilities to test their security systems, she retired after getting bored and soon found a new opportunity to make use of her several dozen limbs. She is the chief waiter responsible for the restaurants internal infrastructure.
-Krascha Karatoschka: A male Vossk and ex-elite soldier. Krascha was one of the Covenants deadliest soldiers, never having failed a single mission with a killcount that could fill an entire star system. However, Krascha was dissatisfied with his career, as he thought of himself as a bad example for his species that had a a reputation for being competent warriors. He wanted to break the tradition by choosing a profession that would help people rather than to eliminate them, and his choice was a cook, the chef cook of the Purple Haze nonetheless.
-The Who Looks: TWL is a Mak-Ina, a species known for being obsessed with cybernetic enhancements. His modified eyes are able to scan every living being and visualizing its biometric data in realtime, able to exactly recommend the perfect dish for each individual customer while his modified brain can directly communicate with the kitchen, accessing the databank containing all known recipes. He is the first person a guest sees when entering and directs everyone to their tables. Being a master-hacker, TWL simply hacked into the restaurants main frame and hired himself, and altough everyone knew that he never showed up to an interview and simply started working there one day, he does such a good job that everybody simply accepts him. However no one seems to know why he started working there at all.
-Salamun "The Wall" Toska: A male Amun, standing in front of the entrance like an impenetrable wall, perfect for his role as the bouncer. He was recruited from the Amuns Council guards, meaning that this Amun is trained to not letting anything go further than he allows. Despite his threatening appearance, he is a kind hearted indivdual. Salamun used to work as a bodyguard for the Covenants High Chairman on first contact missions, until a diplomatic misunderstanding with an aggressive species went wrong resulting in a firefight where he lost his left eye. The High Chairman survived unharmed however, making Salamun a living legend within the Covenants military.
-Bakipa: The Barkeeper. He is a dragon like Wuxian who uses his long tendrils to prepare drinks that could either wipe your memory and make you brabble incoherent nonsense for the next 12 hours or drinks that taste like lemon. Bakipa used to work for the Covenants secret service ASOI and was in charge of developing new drugs used for interrogation or assassination, until he eventually lost his job by getting fired after accidently using his truth serum on himself and admitting to have slept with his boss´s wife. Since then, he has been sober ever since and uses his chemical science degree to provide alcohol for the partying guests.

Contents & Furnishings

The furniture is heavily inspired by that found on the numerous pictures on the Golden Record, but heavily modified. Each table has access to the restaurants main computer, so that each guest can digitally open the menu, place an order or call a waiter if necessary. Before that however, every guest is asked to syncronize their bracelet, as it contains their biometric data and allows them to only oder dishes their species can properly digest.

Special Properties

The Purple Hazes most notable asset is the Voyager 2, a large sattelite that had been sent into space by another civilization in search for intelligent life. The disc that was stored within the spacecraft was called the Golden Record and contains the playlist that now serves as the restaurants ambience music. The Voyager 2 could only be used as an attraction in agreement with the Covenant and is the most highly insured public object in the entire galaxy.
Nowadays, Voyager 2 is suspended in air by Zero-G tech installed around the restaurant, slowly rotating above the daily business.

Architecture

Over time, the typical look of the dirty storage facility vanished the more profit was gained. Soon, the building had been equipped with colorful neon lights for the weekends and spotlights from all directions illumating the sattelite that is suspended in the middle of the dining hall by Zero-G technology, slowly rotating while the music on its disc gets played on repeat.

History

Originally, the Purple Haze was a simple storage facility for space debris, simply rusting away there until some scrap dealers would come along to scavenge either minerals or useful spare parts. However, one day the Covenant picked up a strange, unmanned spacecraft of unknown origin drifting through space. It was nothing more than a sattelite dish with several antennas sticking out, having seized funtion long ago. But the most interesting thing was its cargo: A golden disc with information about the species that created the spacecraft, containing pictures, documents and even music.   A well known scrap dealer called Dangerous Cliff, a male Barrokka, originally intended to sell the spacecraft which name was later identified as Voyager 2, but was halted by a Covenant official stating that the object was a Galactic Heritage and thus, could not be scrapped or sold but had to be stored in a museum. This curious case went through all kinds of media throughout the entire galaxy, especially since the music stored on the Voyager 2s golden disc had been dominating the galactic charts for weeks now.
Dangerous Cliff had an idea to gain profit from this: Instead of putting Voyager 2 into a museum, he would keep it and use it as an attraction for his bar that he was about to sell for not making any profit. And so, the Purple Haze was born: A storage facility turned into the galaxies most famous restaurant where people from all corners of space would dine beneath an age old aircraft sent into space hundreds of years ago to discover new civilizations by a young species.
The name Purple Haze was chosen as it was the name of one of the songs from the disc: Purple Haze by a human artist called Jimmy Hendrix. Since then, his and the music of many other bands and singers that had put their songs on the disc were about to become one of the most iconic quirks of this restaurant.

Tourism

"We all consume food to survive but here, you´re consuming food to LIVE! Welcome to the Purple Haze, a restaurant so famous our Boss considered this advertisement a waste of credits. 
Beneath an age old aircraft sent into space by a young civilization, the Voyager 2, the friendly staff will deliver you dishes from every corner of the obersavble universe, with the menu akin to a database as large as the Covenants main archive. Not only can you choose the perfect meal for you based on your biometric data, you can also study its history and that of the people who invented it while it is being prepared! 
Enter this culinary paradise and taste the entire galaxy on a single taste bud (given that your species has tastebuds)!"
-Aciel Star Trips, your trusty traveling agency for interplanetary adventures

Founding Date

August 7th 2341

Alternative Names

The Dish, Voyagers Den,

Parent Location

Inner Sanctum

Owner

Dangerous Cliff

Owning Organization

Covenant of the Allied Stars