Rostock

The Rostock is a space station near the Floor Mandala, notorious for being a 'secret' safe haven for all sorts of shady activities. 
== History ==
* In 1968 ET, the heavy guild freighter Rostock suffered a catastrophic engine failure near the Floor Mandala. Lacking sufficient funds for repairs, the crew sold off their cargo and continued living on the wreck. They began offering their relatively spacious ship as docking station and meeting place for other travellers, taking energy and oxygen as payment. 
* In 1969 ET, after a violent disagreement between two mercenary clans, a medium troop transporter was left docked to the Rostock without owner. After a few months, the crew of the Rostock claimed ownwership due to 'unpaid docking fees' and began to use the ship as additional living quarters.
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== Layout ==
* Famously described as 'the hairball a space monster coughed up after gorging on a fleet graveyard'.
* a densely interwoven jungle of partially wrecked vessels and purpose-built segments, grown over centuries with little plan or consideration
* roughly two miles long and a mile wide, ovoid shape, still echoing the original freighter 'Rostock'
* outer layers loose enough to fly through, inner layers dense with re-enforcements and collapsed parts
* approximately one thousand permanent residents, but estimates vary wildly. 
== Residents ==
* Ninette's Drugs and Poisons - a main attraction for many assassins and mercenaries, Ninette's offers high quality poisons and an astonishing array of drugs. Prices are high, but the quality is unmatched. Only genuine masters of the craft know her secret side business - dealing the with finest culinary herbs and spices, many of them unavailable on the open market. 
* Madame Josephine - an AI infobroker who picked a lingerie-clad, rokoko gynoid as her human/machine interface. Quite openly interested in sexual relationships with organics. 
== Snippets ==
* Red Rats of the Rostock is a popular childrens' TV series detailing the adventures of a teenage urchin thieves gang on the station. 
== Other articles about the Rostock ==
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