Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170904170117

Travel in the Empire is of course a huge part of the Empire and is a massive portion of the economy (ticket prices, tariffs, travel taxes, ect) thus travel is a large and rather well funded state enterprise (in most cases other 'private' forms of travel do exist) travel comes in three main forms:

- Planetary travel is travel from different locations upon a planet normally in high speed trains, grav cars, or many other forms of travel. Upon the more advance worlds what we would call 'flying cars' are used for the nobles and others to travel from spire to spire with ease and generally in style. The poor of such worlds use either grav trains or massive flying 'buses' which are also planetary cargo ships used to transport the massive amounts of cargo from the ports to the loading docks, processing facilities, or factories of the Empire. no feral worlds the common form of travel is paved roads with archaic vehicles being used from time to time

- Interplanetary travel is travel between the planets of a solar system and sometimes a bit further this is either accomplished by private ships, luxury cruisers, or big and rather bulky cargo/transport ships. Generally such travel takes a hour to a day at most with each ship expected to be able to feed/entertain person for that allotted amount of time.

- Solar travel is travel to the far and wide reaches of the galaxy made possible by void jumps or the use of star gates (massive interstellar portals) a void jump can take a few days and generally is 'faster', but is also far more dangerous then Star Gate travel thus why it is only used in emergency or in shipments that need to get where they're going as fast as possible. Star Gate travel is a bit slower (week to two weeks), but is generally safer with minimal accidents at best. Such travel fro both is made by massive ships known as 'hulks' being the size of small moons as their average. They can carry thousands of tones of cargo and millions to billions of people. Such ships are split into levels that separate the classes as well as the workers and crew. This generally means the upper spires of the ship are rather nice while the lower one's are rather grimy and dark.

As you can tell space travel is the most common and as had already been stated done by space hulks. Now inside these space hulks are miniature cities full of malls, bath houses, and other such attractions as well as brothels, temples, and many others. The largest parts by far are the housing areas taking the form of apartment blocks for the poor and villas for the rich. The ship is populated by multiple types of 'permanent residents' who take the forms of workers, administrators, and the slaves/servants. Now the slaves and servants are hereditary in nature all descending from the first batch of slaves bought with some new ones mixed in here and there (got to lessen expenses some how). The workers are either slaves themselves, servitors, or impressed individuals who where pretty much kidnapped by the ships crew. Now the Administrators are the true nobles of the ship and rule over all it's functions and residents as they see fit. Now mixed in are the prostitutes, priests, merchants, and many others who keep the commerce of the ship alive. 