6-076: Mundo Zargo Highport – Docking Area B

I’m sure with her skills, Lia can dress appropriately.

The Spanial is nose-in to station to allow easiest access for the cargo hold doors at the front. Beyond the Port Airlock is a semi-flexible walkway that allows passengers on and off the station.

Lia must present her ID tag to pass from the tube into the docking area.

This is a commercial dock.

It is a large rectangular space, about 15m high and 5m below her, 30m from where Lia is standing to the opposite wall, and over 100m in either direction from where Spanial is docked along the docking row.

A few other ships are docked here as well, along the row beside where Spanial sits, and the port is busy moving cargo.  Particularly down the far end to her left, where a 50 kiloton freighter has docked and a seemingly endless stream of cargo is being loaded into its hold after entering the area through one of the big doors on the end wall.

A ramp leads down from the platform on which Lia is standing to the floor where most of the ‘people traffic’ is.  Above her, close to the ceiling, massive cargo containers move about on cranes and cargo haulers.  Being well-travelled, Lia would know that the effectiveness of the grav plates on the floor below drops off with distance, so the closer to the ceiling they are, the easier the containers are to move.  Which is not to say it’s not slightly disconcerting having all that mass moving about overhead.

From her perch on the docking platform she can see that on the opposite side of the floor area are a few shops, including a cafe and a general knick-knack type of place, or she can head from the docking bay into the station proper through the nearest access, which is next to the knick-knack shop.