Echnos City Echnos City was the capital of the moon Echnos . It was a technology - rich city encased in a giant atmosphere providing dome . Access . The dome was 20 kilometers in radius and 2000 stories high . At the top of the city dome where eight airlocks which provided access to the city . The largest airlock accommodated ships up till 200 meters in length . Landing facilities were provided on the top of the tallest buildings in the shape of standardized clusters of four landing platforms , which were open to all sides , circular , and provided access to the building they were built on top of via turbolifts . Next to the turbolifts were docking services computer terminals which travelers could use to order various types of docking services such as refueling and restocking of consumables , as well minor repairs . These services , which had to be paid for by insertion of credits or , alternatively , by transfer from a Echnos City account , was fully carried out by various automata . The city . Level 75 was the last open air level of the domed city . All levels below spanned the entire protective area of the dome . Its streets typically no more than narrow corridors filled with steam , noise and beings from more than a thousand worlds , Echnos was the locus of several seedy establishments ; especially , those dealing in technology were popular and numerous . There were numerous hotels , but these were quite constricted , and a room for two individuals was actually considered somewhat of a luxury . In addition there were several casinos and other entertainment establishments . As with the hotels , the entertainment establishments were constricted and , often , a casino would share space with a cantina . There were several retailers and shops in Echnos , most of which dealt in technology , and weapons were also an easily accessible commodity . While technology and manufactured goods were very cheap , foodstuffs and raw materials as well as chemical compounds were very rare and extremely expensive . At the very bottom of the city was the Echnos Exhibition Dome , which was the venue of a weekly demolition race called the BlastBoast 2000 . Residents and guests . Several different types of individuals of all sorts of species and professions were found in Echnos City . Despite the orientation towards technology in the cult , the locals shunned cyborgs and there was an ingrown dislike in Echnos culture of the idea of replacing organic entities with automatic ones . At least once , a mercenary ' s convention took place in one of the many conference rooms found throughout the city . At this meeting , the Galactic Empire delegated out contracts of various types , including bounty hunter jobs , through Lieutenant Vincent Gatharard . The chase . In somewhat of an incident , a group of adventurers attended the meeting only to find that they were actually wanted by the Empire for treason and armed rebellion . They managed to escape the conference room but were chased all over town by hordes of bounty hunters . The same group of adventurers later participated in the BlastBoast 2000 race . This caught the attention of the cunning bounty hunter , Daxtorn Lethos , who managed to captured them by trapping them in shuttlecraft which was programmed to bring them to his spacecraft , the " Gorgon " , only to see them escape very narrowly . The local authorities became involved when the sent out a group of Protector StarSpeeder s to eliminate the adventurers and the bounty hunter , both of whom managed to exit the dome and jump to lightspeed .