Fly me to the moon / Let me play among the stars

[hondoyota]

WHO: You!
WHERE: The brand new International Moon Research Base, Embassy, and Tourist Center on THE MOON
WHEN: January 13
WHAT: January Swear-In and Official Inauguration of the new moon colony, now permanently available through any of the city Porters. It’s a huge party, and it’s on the moon! Adam Parrish, imPort Coordinator and Moon Base Project Spokesperson, will be available throughout the event for any questions.
WARNINGS: Let me know if anything needs it!


Atrium and Registration
The arrivals deck of the moon base is a contained dome without exterior windows. It’s been decorated for the grand opening and there are several stalls offering drinks, maps, and information, but the arrivals deck still has the atmosphere of an airport, and there’s some of the security of that, too. Government officials will be strict about what can and cannot be brought into the Moon Base. No flammable items, no projectile weapons of any kind, and severe limitations on piercing weapons (swords or spears). If you’re carrying a box of matches or a weapon, you may have to have a lengthy conversation with the security officials as to whether you’ll have to leave the item in the arrivals deck or if an exception can be made for you.
The registration table near the door allows for the usual new import swearing-in, but it also allows for applications for moon residency. The government is aware that many imports are already interested in living and working at the base on a more permanent basis. The base has the capability to grow into a township and eventually into a moon city, but for now space—and residency—is limited.
Also available from the arrivals deck are the moonwalk tours. You can choose between a clunky and difficult space suit or a clear plastic "hamster ball" to enjoy a tour of the rugged space landscape outside under the supervision of trained guides.


Residential Dome
From the arrivals deck, halls branch off to the various habitable bubbles of the moon base. The largest of these is the residential dome. There are several hotels, since this is built to be a tourist destination, and there are apartments here for the workers maintaining the base, and a few restaurants and bars available, but most of the focus will be on the festival set up in the park.
The park is a rectangle of grassy lawn on the upper most level of the residential dome, under a broad glass ceiling that gives a view up at the stars and the earth. There are benches and tiled alcoves with mosaics depicting different mythologies about the moon from a variety of cultures, and an array of booths set up around the perimeter of the park serving food and drinks.
Many of the shops offer Moon Fashion which is about as ridiculous and varied as you can imagine, offering plenty of retro sci-fi fashions from absurd to weird to elegant.
On one of the lower floors of the dome is a huge room designated as a permanent bouncy castle. The walls and ceiling of the room are all covered in inflatable pads. There are warnings everywhere around the residential dome to not jump because you weigh about a sixth of your Earth weight and you won’t have the reflexes you need to control your jump. Fortunately, here in the bouncy castle, you can jump all you like! Still, please be careful. The ceiling is twenty feet up, and you’ll easily be able to crash into it if you try.


Research Dome
The International Moon Research Base has a strong focus on research and education, and one of the habitation domes is set up for that purpose. The research dome contains labs and research facilities, set up for the Swear-In with demonstrations and fun chemistry experiments that people can take part in, an international research library with scientific texts in half a dozen languages, and a lecture hall where classes will be going on throughout the day on how the moon base’s life support systems work, classes about the environment and geology of the moon—why breathing moon dust will kill you! the two hundred-degree temperature shift between day and night on the moon’s surface! explosive decompression and you!—along with more theoretical classes about further space exploration by using this base as a launching point for the universe.


Embassy Dome
The Embassy dome is by far the most expensive and elegant of the domes, and after tonight it will have more restricted access and be used by multiple governments as an international embassy space. But today it’s reserved for the exclusive enjoyment of the imPort community. There is an Earth-Viewing Deck, an elegant lounge with a huge viewing window of the earth which provides a quieter sanctuary within the festivities. Soft music is playing in the background and the lighting is low, with plenty of private alcoves for a quiet conversation and the deck is broad enough to allow for some slow-dancing under the light of the earth.
Later in the evening, the Grand Ballroom of the embassy will be opened. It’s the jewel of the moon base, an opulent space on the top level of the embassy dome, with huge glass windows providing views on all sides of the stars and the earth. The marble floor is etched with a detailed map of the moon’s face, with a little star etched to mark the location of the moon base in the Mare Nubium, the Sea of Clouds. Music is playing and there are food, drinks, and dancing aplenty. It’s a good chance to show off your best moon fashion under the light of the stars.

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[aberrant_type]

Hange takes a break after hassling Ronan to drift around the party and observe her fellow imPorts. They're a deceptive-looking bunch in many parts; she's met some very outstanding nonhumans, but most of the people here wouldn't look out of place in her world. It's slightly disappointing, because Hange is a great lover of strangeness and newness. The weirder it gets, the more she likes it.

Wandering eyes can't help but notice Adam, and how he sticks to her latest subject of interest. He's in Ronan's company and engaged with that young man. Therefore it's worth testing Adam a little.

She's neatly but plainly, dressed in dark trousers and a button-up shirt. "You seem to be everywhere this evening."

[hondoyota]

"That's my job." Adam greets the stranger with a diplomat's smile, ready to answer questions or debate the ethics of colonization. He's unaware of her earlier exchange with Ronan, because he was busy elsewhere and Ronan doesn't tell him these things. "Welcome to the moon."

[aberrant_type]

She'll roll with this for now. She wants to take this stranger's measure, anyway, and so brown hawk's eyes measure him up and down.

Adam is fresh-faced and young, but Hange works with teenagers who are competent soldiers and thus is disinclined to underestimate those below the age of majority. And she can see how he'd become a poster child.

"You're young." The statement is blunt, but comes out in a mild tone. "But you've advanced to a respectable position regardless of that. I'm sure other imPorts look at you and think to themselves what productive possibilities are open to them."

[hondoyota]

"Yes, that's the intent," Adam says, accepting the flattery calmly. He's been getting it all night. People see his success and they're interested in taking advantage of it. "ImPort cooperation. We can do anything if we work together."

[aberrant_type]

Flattery, but also probably warranted praise, in Hange's opinion. Her smile is relaxed and amiable.

"How long have you been here? You must have some stories to tell."

[hondoyota]

"You mean in this world as an imPort? About a year."

Adam is not a storyteller by nature, so he simply disregards that suggestion.

[aberrant_type]

That's a shame, as she'd be genuinely interested in hearing his stories, but ah well.

"What did you do before you arrived here?"

[hondoyota]

"I was a high school student." Sorry, Hange. Adam's a private person, and certainly not about to offer up his life story to a stranger. "You haven't introduced yourself." He says it pointedly, because she hasn't, and she's asking very pointed questions.

[aberrant_type]

Her expression is briefly but clearly amused. It's always interesting to see how much mild rudeness you can put to people before they push back at all.

"You may call me Hange. Have you continued your studies here, as well?"

[hondoyota]

Now Adam's just irritated by the prying, if this Hange person is going to be so close-mouthed in return. "Have you taken a tour of the facility?" he suggests. "You can sign up for them from the arrivals deck."

[aberrant_type]

A hotter temper than his servant, belonging, or whatever-have-you. It registers, but Hange does what for her amounts to cordially pretending not to notice. "I have! And I toured the surface, and looked at the scientific exhibitions, and watched all the videos. Very impressive and a great deal of fun."

[hondoyota]

"I'm glad you've enjoyed it," Adam says, with only the barest veneer of courtesy. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have other business to be attending." Anywhere that Hange isn't.

[aberrant_type]

Alas, Hange has made her career out of not going away and stopping when people would like her to go away and stop.

"Is this how a politician reacts to anyone he decides he dislikes?"

[hondoyota]

"Vague and inaccurate," Adam critiques the question like he expected better. "Calling me a politician is a technicality, and I don't know you well enough to dislike you. Whose interests do you represent?"

[aberrant_type]

"You're a political figure, there's no way around it," said mildly. "And if you deny that, you're lying to yourself. If you stand for imPorts in any way, you represent my interests, and therefore I am interested in you."

[hondoyota]

"You and every newspaper on Earth," Adam says, blandly. "If you'd like an interview, you may present your credentials at administration and my secretary will review them." He doesn't have a secretary. He'll get one just to foil Hange, if he has to. "A politician, miss, does not give private interviews to anyone who accosts him. Enjoy your stay on the moon."

[aberrant_type]

"A politician should also be able probe others and suss them out, and work with personalities he finds difficult." Since he's being a child about it, Hange doesn't bother restraining a brief roll of her eyes. She'll work on cracking Ronan from another angle, since this one clearly won't work out. "But suit yourself."