Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20171002015525

Watch Stations are ports of all types and sorts spread out all across the Empire. They are pretty much check points as well as Customs office to check and manage what comes into the Empire. They also have refueling stations, loading docks, warehouses, and many other things.

Watch Stations are built around a central spire and in a massive collection of rings. Each ring is supposed to accommodate a certain type of person, for example the inner rings for the nobles and rich merchants, middle for average citizens, and the outer rings for the loading of ships, storage, and those poor dregs who don't have a passport and now must live in the massive stellar slums.

Watch Stations also are split into 'districts' for certain ethnic groups or socioeconomic groups (seeing as most areas in the Empire itself is split off by ethnic group to reduce tension). Many of these districts cater towards a specific groups needs or for entertainment value, ex: Theater district, Red Light district, and a merchants quarter.

The people of the watch stations come in four main groups:

- The 'Part Timers' or 'Visitors' who are merely passing by for a few days or maybe a week at most and don't plan to stay for long unless absolutely necessary. They tend to live in apartments and pent houses during their stay.

- 'Business' are the merchants, shop keepers, and ship captains that frequent or even stay at such stations. They tend to live in rather large apartments and some even villas or spires and have a whole host of employees and slaves.

- Workers are made up off debters, slaves, and all sorts of workers impressed or of hereditary nature from across the Empire.

- 'Dregs' are those unfortunate enough to have stowed away or have lost their pass port and now are literally stuck within the watch station and sent to live within the slums or if they are lucky hired or impressed by business men within the station and put to work. 