AS Koryos City

The **AS Koryos City** is a large Aratacian civilian liner and mobile department store accompanying Aratis Kilar's *Task Force Koryos.* The AS Koryos City is a recently re-christened vessel privately run and captained by **Velciss Ferren**, an entrepreneur with strong ties to Aratacia's retail and services industries. The starship was a product of opportunism on Mr. Ferren's part, who saw an opportunity to cater to the renegade Aratacian fleet by providing a mobile slice of home wherever they went. Consequently, an old liner was bought, hastily rennovated, and had floorspace auctioned off to eager storefronts in under a month, eventually reaching Vigila in the month of Hydrenia, at the height of the Vigilian Games of 23 NE.

## Description

The *Koryos City* is a refitted *Rentaus*-class astroliner originally named *Spinward South*. The *Rentaus*-class is a vaguely mussel-shaped starship that was originally produced in the Klosaght shipyards over 200 years ago, and while very popular for ferrying people and cargo at the time of its production had since fallen out of favour for more recent classes of liners. The *Spinward South* had been bought by Mr. Ferren from a breaking yard at a discount and had bought a supply of replacement parts from the same yard for the ship's extensive renovations.

Almost all renovations made by Ferren were to the critical systems of the ship and to the interior. Consequently, the exterior of *Koryos City* is, put charitably, a little rough. The hull is pockmarked by micrometeor impacts, bleached by stellar radiation, and smeared in the brackish soot of interplanetary space, with the only distinction from a derelict hulk being the hundreds of lit windows, the booming and powerful sublight engines, and the freshly-painted tricolours on either side of the top hull.

The interior, however, has been extensively renovated. Built in a neo-Imperial style popular in Aratacian monument building, the department store's wide corridors, indoor parks, and huge glass canopies bring all of the baroque class of Aratacia's most prestigious terrestrial department stores to the middle of the Concourse. The *Koryos City* is as much a shopping centre as it is a projection of Aratacian cultural influence, and it was for both reasons that Aratis eagerly welcomed the project when he became aware of it.

## Stores and Services

### Verbeti's Victuals

A franchise of general stores so ubiquitous in Aratacia that *Verbeti* has become shorthand for all convenience stores of its type in the country. Verbeti's Victuals are found on practically every street corner in Aratacia, evenly spaced on highways, on every station of practically any size, on most large warships, and practically anywhere else where there is a significant population of Aratacians either within or outside of the Kingdom's borders. Several such stores are aboard *Koryos City*-- indeed, it was the very first company Mr. Ferren rung up when he started the venture.

Verbeti's Victuals are warm, brightly-lit, and welcoming. Despite being a corner store, Verbeti's all have an inventory more akin to a very small mall, selling snacks, drinks, articles of clothing, magazines, maps, and books, hot food such as sausages and shellfish, alcohol, fuel, over-the-counter drugs and medicine, tobacco, fireworks, and ammunition. The remarkable logistical feat of maintaining such a large inventory in such small stores over such vast distances is achieved in a large part by Verbeti's custom of hiring retired logistical corps officers from the Royal Aratacian Armed Forces to work as managers and consultants.

**Inventory**

**Snack Items**

**Beverages**

**Grocery**

**Hot Food**

**Clothing**

**Tobacco and Alcohol**

**Toiletries**

**Tools, Automobile, and Sporting**

### Melsic Supply & Sporting

Adorned in the rustic style of an Aratacian frontier farmhouse, Melsic Supply & Sporting is a one-stop shop for all things firearms, hunting, and self-defence. It sells ammunition, camouflage outfits, body armour, traps, and "recreational" high explosives and their associated projectors.

**Firearms**

**Optics**

**Clothing & Apparel**

### Selco's Surplus Swords & Sabres

Run by an ex-cavalryman, this little surplus store is overfull with spare bladed and hardlight weapons from a broad survey of times and places-- though with a particular slant towards Aratacian wares.

An Aratacian cuirassier's full panoply is on prominent display at the centre of the shop, with a hefty pricetag to go along with it.

### King's Finery, Inc.

You enter this store into another world. Dimly lit by candles and gas lamps is a room framed by tasteful wood panel walls, arrayed with ancient mastercraft furniture, and with a small, carefully-selected inventory of merchandise for sale. Designer clothing and expensive luxury goods from Aratacia are the business of this small store for the elite.

For full suits, a professional tailor named **Beleas Tirtesci** is available.

Tailored Items

Alcohol and Tobacco

### "K.S.C."

The nondescript appearance of the plain walls, thin, cheap doors, and prefabricated furniture make "K.S.C." look more at home at a strip-mall than on Koryos City. The appearance is, however, just that: those in the know understand that Klecis Security Consulting deals in security, both armed and unarmed, and has a stable of a dozen retired law enforcement and military personnel from within the Kingdom with which to hire out.

Those well-connected enough-- or daring enough to find out for themselves-- know that for the right price, K.S.C. and its employees are willing to do much more than mere security.

### Koryos City Parteq

A *Parteq*, or, Aratacian-style cafe at the aft of the ship. The cafe is spacious, with a huge curving ceiling made up by the upper half of the hull of the ship and an incredible view of Vigila from orbit from its massive bay windows.

Parteqs are lowkey, relaxed, and classy, meant more for relaxing and socialisation than for getting a hearty meal. Once seated, the first course is a hot drink, typically coffee or tea, moving on to a light meal of a sandwich or steamed clams or fish, and ending with a fine cigar, served on silver platter with complementary matches. Visiting Parteqs is considered a mature and becoming activity, especially among Aratacian men. Parteqs are often the places in which business and negotiations take place.