Culture: Shipper

Someone referring to themselves as a Shipper has been born or raised in a nomadic lifestyle on board ships. Typically they have spent their life traveling from system to system, whether on one ship or many. Their culture varies greatly, but the one consistent theme is that they are compelled to be free. Travelling the universe at a whim is their birthright.

Conformity

Conformists tend to "follow the stardust", meaning they will go where the winds of fate and the passage of ships takes them. They never want to be "soiled" or tied down to one planet.

Rebellion

Rebels tend to want to break the traditions of their parents and find a planet to call their home. They will often find or buy a broken ship to build a home out of on the ground or end up in a Orbital Station.

Culture

Shared customary codes and values

Shippers typically have the ideals of Freedom is Mandatory, The Stars are My Home, and A Ship Survives Together.

Average technological level

T7 (Limit)

Common Dress code

Shippers tend to have versital, warm clothing that can be bundled up in a pinch (like a ship breach). Traditionalists or Wealthy Shippers will have sealable clothing that can protect themselves during a breach.

Art & Architecture

Art: Shipper art always tends to try and show the beauty of the stars and void. Common motifs are black and starry backgrounds with waves of color shifting through the painting. Music tends towards slow and haunting melodies.
Architecture: Shipper architecture is practically nonexistent by nature, though Rebels or Stranded Shippers tend towards buildings built out of scrapped ships as they are used to living inside of the hulls.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

For a Tribal Crew, a crew that is tied to a specific ship and lives, raises children, and dies on one vessel, the Launch Day is celebrated almost like a mixture of a Birthday and Independence Day.
For Hoppers, the Shippers that travel from ship to ship, it is common to recognize your first Transition as a personal holiday almost as more notable than your birthday. It tends to be the day the Shipper split off from their family and forged their own path in the stars.

Coming of Age Rites

The day a Shipper transitions to another ship and away from his family is a notable day of celebration and rebirth.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Muted colors and a little grease on the skin are considered the sign a good, useful, and helpful Shipper. Nothing is more beautiful than someone wearing the result of them being useful to the Ship.

Related Organizations

• Bounty Hunter's Guild
• Brotherhood of Independent Scientists
• Court of Scavs
• Court of Scavs Faction: "The Blades"
• Court of Scavs Faction: "The Frayed"
• Court of Scavs Faction: "The Made"
• Court of Scavs Faction: "The Shades"
• Hausaga Syndicate
• Pleasure Inkorporated "pINK"
• Scavs: Tempest Mercenaries
• Shipper Flotilla
• The Celestial Pantheon
• Xyloth AgriCorp

Related Items

• Spacer's Slop
• VerduGrow

Languages spoken

• Scavvish