3 Space Station Armidale
Europa reflected on her situation as she walked away from
the ship to the elevator. While her grade point average was high, it wasn’t
close to the top of the range. She couldn’t figure it out. ‘At least not yet,’
she decided.
She entered the elevator. “Main concourse,” she said.
On the Main Concourse, the Station director, Charles
Zachary, waited for the student to arrive. The elevator door opened. “Europa
Brennan?” he asked.
“Who else would it be?” the redhead asked.
“I thought you would be shorter,” he said.
“Most of my grandparents were quite tall,” Europa
explained. “But that’s not what I want to talk about.”
“Of course not. First of all, I’m going to show you the
Station’s facilities. Most of them are on this level.”
Europa took out her dataslate, which then projected a
diagram of the station. “I see,” she said.
Firstly, they entered the Library. “This is just part of
it,” Zachary said. “The rest of it takes of most of the two lower levels, along
with the computer cores.”
“I’ll be looking through it later,” Europa commented.
“Of course,” Zachary commented.
Next; they looked at the various laboratories on the
Concourse level. “There are more up next to the Dock in the microgravity
section,” Zachary explained.
“Obviously,” Europa said with a smirk.
“The laboratories are for study of the effect of the
Station’s environment on various species, analysis of the chemical composition
of space dust, telescopic viewing of various solar system objects… Things like
that.”
“I guessed that too.”
Zachary sighed. “There are many other things too.”
“Of course, it’s not all work,” Zachary said as they
continued along the Concourse. “There are recreational facilities too.”
“An arcade?” Europa asked as she looked at the facility
in question.
“What is old is new again.”
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