now at the end of this particular docking arm there is a very strange thing absalom station is
not an overly large place but it is a very densely packed place to be today we're going to talk about
the arms of absalom this is a single section of the space station i'm going to tell you about
the neighborhoods that are there and i'm going to tell you some interesting places that you could
have your adventures in star finder let's get into it hello everyone welcome to the table my name's
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you do come check out our discord server the arms of absalom refer to the large protrusions
that come off of the space station these would be the docks where you offload or unload goods
as well as get into the space station and not all docks are created equal some force-walled
docks will have atmosphere in them so that us air breathers who need this necessity
we can stay alive other docks are just large open areas in space with no atmosphere
these are generally reserved for some of the larger space vessels and larger cargo coming into
the station there are even docks with complete water in them whereas that is the atmosphere
some species are only able to breathe in water and absalom station is able to accommodate them in
these particular areas and one dock in particular called the puddle is where these water breathers
would go if you have some cargo that is more of a don't ask too many questions or i don't want
too many questions asked about this then you're probably going to go to little akiton
where you can pay the docking fees get aboard the space station and nobody really rummages
through your business hopefully no promises little akiton is also one of the most crime-ridden docks
in absalom station no matter where your ship chooses to make birth when you come to absalom
station there is always something to do these arms all have neighborhoods in them they have
shops entertainment anybody who comes into the space station doesn't need to leave the arms
there is also a lot of residential areas that surround the arms and all of these businesses to
keep them afloat in some cases you will even find quarantine centers from the stardust plague when
that was when that was an issue it was also so long ago that these stations are also pretty run
down now there are three primary neighborhoods that you will find within the arms one of them
will be fog town fog town has called this for obvious reasons there is a multi-colored gas that
sort of hangs in the area so that the natives to breatheda or leovara can breathe this is the place
where those particular species who need that gas for their atmosphere will stay there are lodgings
for them there is places of business taverns anything that you might need in a functioning
district it will be in fog town now that doesn't mean if you don't breathe gas naturally
that there isn't a place for you or there isn't the ability for you to come visit there certainly
is there are communal breathing masks that are set aside for visitors who want to come in and
whatever business dealings that they have large biotech companies from betheda will come and set
up shop here they will push their wares and make their deals here being that absalom is kind of the
main hub for the packed worlds it's easier to do your business dealings at absalom than it is to go
all the way to bretheda and on leovara one of the primary exports that they have is their gas
mining they harvest their planet for money for profit so you will find a lot of representatives
from these major gas mining corporations these gas conglomerates will come to absalom
and they'll stay in fog town to negotiate their contracts or negotiate their deals
another complicated neighborhood when it comes to absalom station especially in the arms
is puddles this is the section for water breathing guests as absalom dignitaries might like to call
them now the way this works is this section is basically completely flooded except for some clear
glass tubes that run throughout the whole area this is to accommodate the air breathers or the
huffers as the water breathing people would call them this particular neighborhood is known for two
things it is known for good food because it's an experience that you can't really get anywhere else
despite the vastness and the largeness that is space underwater is still the most terrifying
foreign thing that you can experience and apparently the food tastes really good too
the second thing that this area is known for is a company called qual deep this particular company
is known for their fantastic environmental suits specifically for underwater environments as well
as augmented weapons for water combat like in the water if you're planning any sort of
water fight or water-based combat you will want to talk to somebody from qual deep
to make sure that you are outfitted correctly the last neighborhood to note is called the
vesk quarter it was essentially created as a political statement once the vaskarium in the
pact world stopped fighting each other it was hoped that this particular area would lessen
tensions between the two empires i don't really think it has worked but it hasn't made things
worse let's put it that way so it's very common to find vesk working throughout the packed worlds
working throughout absalom however their highest concentration in the packed worlds is found
in this district and as with all things vesk it is very utilitarian this entire
neighborhood it is quite rigid quite structured quite military based as is the vesque empire which
i've talked about up here so if you're interested check them out this will bring us into the notable
locations outside of the neighborhoods that can be found within the arms of absalom i did talk about
one of them in my previous absalom video called the click clack club so i am going to be leaving
that one out of this video the cause monastery of the empty orbit is a training ground for solarians
the architecture of this building is complex it was designed by aliens there's a lot of those in
star finder though and as in true solarian fashion there is only a thin force field that covers the
building protecting it from the vacuum and death and dismemberment exploding heads of space for us
huffers this solarian training facility is run by high sola tabashad oseo marcola now people have
called it the greatest solarian training facility that exists outside of cassette or the idari
but really that only makes it third best and not the best in the universe she also has her own
private order called the empty orbit and what they believe and what she believes very very strongly
is that golarian's disappearance was related to the planet scale engineering that they
were figuring out was happening at the time and it is her order's mission to
stop any projects on such a grand scale wherever they come up because in the solarian belief it
disrupts the balance of things it disrupts the order of the universe and because this order was
disrupted this is why she believes golarian had disappeared this other location that can be found
within the arms is called eyes wide agency this is a private investigation firm they're morally gray
they use traditional pi work by going out and doing the the hard grind asking the right
questions they also use mind readers and telepathy they have solved missing persons cases they are
sometimes hired for corporate espionage they are hirable for anything that you might need a psychic
abilitied person for now the fact that this agency hasn't been shut down by the stewards or the
or the absalom police speaks volumes to the fact that they are deeply entrenched officially
unofficially with politicians ceos and even the same law enforcement they go in and they
help them out so this is why they kind of get a blind eye turn to them eyes wide agency blind eye
i'm punny before we get into the far dock which is the last interesting neighborhood
that i'm going to cover about the arms in absalom if you're getting some value out of
the video today you've really been enjoying it let me know by hitting that like button i would
really appreciate it one of the largest docking arms on absalom station is called kavalasa's arm
now at the end of this particular docking arm there is a very strange thing what would
otherwise be a perfectly normal prime location for a loading bay or an unloading arm there stands an
interesting feature there is a stone archway it stands 20 feet tall and if you are to look
at this archway it's difficult to focus on you can't it never seems to be in focus and it's
not a problem with your eyes it's just the way that it is the glow coming from this archway
is green and there are two notable things with this archway there are two giant statues
to either side of this gateway one is a lion looking thing and one is a serpent looking thing
i say looking things because they would resemble what you would have seen on galoreon but they're
not quite right the other interesting thing there's a lot of interesting things with this
but the other thing that happens when you approach this gate these stone guardians they
well they stand up and they attack anybody who tries to get close for the brave few that have
managed to make it past these stone golems the archway actually turns from green to purple and
it explodes them into little meat chunks and sends them backwards so nobody has really been able to
see what's on the other side of the portal it is actually quite uh quite well policed from
absalom because it saves money on the janitors so you don't have to sweep up the meat bits
sometimes from this gateway there are runes that will come to the surface and then disappear
sometimes the same sometimes different nobody really knows what they mean yet and research
is very strictly controlled on this particular gate some conspiracy theories have been floated
around about where this gate goes what may have come out while no one was looking or where it may
go but the truth is nobody really knows there are still other sections of absalom that i need to
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