4-101: Zebulon Station, Section TC

Having never gotten further than out of the docking strut and into Section BC previously, the next Cycle after breakfast, Oliver enters the station again. 

He passes through the end of Strut K, showing his ID tag, and this time reaches the end of Section BC where it joins the hub.

At that junction are four pairs of doors, leading on to large twin corridors, each for travel through to sections P, D, T and the Hub itself.  Each pair of doors is split between those coming into Section BC from the other Sections, and those  going out to the respective sections.  He has to show his ID tag to an automatic scanner as he passes.  Legion troops are dotted around the doorways keeping watch.

  

Zebulon Station Gravity and Layout Diagram

  

  

Visually the corridor curves upwards ahead of him as he enters the Hub and then spirals through a 180° twist.  Gravitationally, his feet remain on the floor the whole time. 

When he emerges from the Hub into Section TC he finds it different to the quiet orderliness of Section BC.

Around the outside walls of the section are a similar set of retail shops to that that were in Section BC, however on the other side of a wide corridor the inner rectangle of the section seems to consist of a ramshackle maze of temporary wall partitions that make up a warren of small market cubicles and stalls.  Some of the walls are standard station partitioning, but all sorts of other materials seem to have been pressed into use as well.

Section TC is a lot noisier than Section BC was, and a variety of interesting and unusual smells hang in the air.

The obscure directions Erin gave Oliver now make sense in context, although it still takes him several Moments to locate the vendor in question.

Todd’s (Stall#103) is a double-size stall made of mismatched ceramic panelling, with one half of the front cordoned off with some sort of badly scratched and yellowed transparent polymer sheet.  A number of cabinets and shelves line the walls, and empty wall space is hung with a variety of electronic parts and equipment.  A person Oliver may assume is Todd is seated on what seems to be a battered re-purposed ship’s workstation chair at an electronics work bench examining a circuit board through a magnifying optical viewer.

Todd is a heavy set, dark-skinned, bald man of indeterminate age wearing an eye patch over a scarred face that also sports a luxuriant handlebar mustache.

Tell Todd exactly what it is Oliver wants to buy and give me a Merchant roll.