The Cellar - Coriolis station
Other than the plebeians, who do maintenance on the station’s life support, and the members of the Guard on purge patrols, no one visits the Cellar of Coriolis. If you have business in the Cellar, put on some protective gear and buy a gun. As the gravity down here is unstable it is good to be acquainted with zero-G. Roughly speaking, the Cellar can be divided into a higher, less decrepit part, and a lower, very worn down part. The floors of the Cellar are not named or numbered, and the only maps that exist are hand-made by the service personnel with the bitter jobs of tending to the systems down here.
THE SEWERS
An old sewage treatment plant in the upper part of the Cellar has been converted into a massive gambling den, named simply “the Sewers”. Its reputation speaks of high stakes and even higher takings – if you manage to win and make it out alive, you can live out your days like a pasha. The Sewers are run by the enigmatic Mida, who recently strong-armed the Free League into giving up their control of the place, something they are less than happy with. The Sewers consists of three parts: the Bazaar, Jacinto’s Cantina, and the Pit, where actual gladiator matches supposedly take place.
THE AQUEDUCT OF ZAKARA
The students of Coriolis speak of “Zakara’s” in romantic terms as, traditionally, many of them ohave visited the aqueduct for romance as well as for sins of the flesh. The old aqueduct is still in operation, slowly passing water that is more or less clean. This has made the site popular with both slummers and skavara, as clean water is hard to come by in the Cellar.
THE WAY DOWN
The Cellar is a restricted area, but there are ways of getting down:
◆ THE GUARD’S WAY: With contacts in the Guard and some birr to grease the wheels, you can access the Cellar the official way, through the Guard’s elevators.
◆ THE SYNDICATE’S WAY: With contacts in the Syndicate and either through payment or after running some errand for the faction, you might get escorted to the higher cellar through secret smuggling tunnels with a black bag over your head.
◆ THE GAMBLER’S WAY: Those who know their way around the gambling circuit or have friends in the Mulukhad should be able to obtain directions for the Sewers, the Cellar’s gam-bling den.
◆ THE STUDENT’S WAY: Many students have visited the aqueduct of Zakara in the Cellar at some point, and most hall guards or morally ambiguous students could give up the location in exchange for birr, exam cheats, or something similar.
THE UPPER CELLAR
The higher floors are worn and desolate but basically in working order. They are sometimes used for docking and unloading when the Net is busy with a bulk hauler. The Guard patrols the upper levels and are responsible for repairs. The Syndicate are said to use these floors for smuggling operations. All the locations described below are in the upper cellar.
THE LOWER CELLAR
The lower levels show a rapidly increasing degree of decay. The gravity comes and goes, and rumors say that only slummers and escaped semi-intelligences, mainly carrion-eating skavara, live here, but no one knows for sure.
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