Quote:Sure. Heck, I'm certain the station's got actual rooms available, on a sorta budget motel basis... I mean, so many Fen fly ships converted from, y'know, cars and the like. So many folks don't have proper beds, or for that matter, toilets.
Acyl - love your idea. Will you implement it and, if you do, mind if my character camps out there when he's not making runs?
(Handwavium plumbing is one of the greatest applications, yo)
You gotta understand, he doesn't see himself as running a business. More of providing a public service. The charges are simply to cover operating costs. He's like that store owner who's, y'know, a gamer himself.
I'm fairly sure I'll write at least something using this idea, even if it's only a short. I love the ones that folks have already posted. I just need to sort out details, like...oh, the name of the man behind this thing. He's a quasi-SI, of course - I imagine many of our characters will be - but not entirely one. So.
Also gotta establish the station itself. His minio...er, crew...er, personnel, 'cause clearly he needs hired (or at least handwavium-animated) help. The actual physical design and size of the place...and so on. I'm not even sure how large it is, though...fairly so.
Heck, place needs a name. I'm tempted to just call it "The Floating Island" and be done with it, though. Sonic the Hedgehog reference, and an accurate description of how it looks. Buuuut, that lacks a certain something...perhaps a nickname, with something else. But I dunno.
I'm thinking he'd also own a ship of his own, though he wouldn't use it for galivanting round the solar system. Just a glorified delivery truck. Perhaps literally a delivery truck. Something which can do re-entry and boost out of atmosphere with relative ease. After all, if you're in the business of supplying other Fen, you've gotta keep your inventory stocked, right?
Of course, it'd also be relatively easy for him to call in favours if he needs cargo hauled.
So yeah, I'll do this. Just need to sort out the details.
And Ben, clearly one of the regulars. =)
-- Acyl
EDIT: And I have an idea for a story fic-fragment. Decent opening scene, anyway, just based on ruminations about the hired help. =P
-- Acyl