Themis Station

Place

Themis Station is a mix of organic curves, crystal windows, bold spires, and domes where ships are grown/built. It orbits a ringed gas giant called Themis, in the Skyguard Home System.

Details

The nominal lord of Themis Station is Jaynos Skyguard, an elf paladin (L12+, he/him cis het). In practice, Delanos Skyguard runs things as the station's Master Shipwright. Delanos is an elf wizard (L18+, he/him cis het). Delanos spent some time in Sigil when he was young.

Themis is a cutting-edge, high-security shipyard, with about 80% of its capacity dedicated to supplying the Imperial Grand Navy of Tanyth Aramont with new hulls, repairs, and retrofits. The remaining capacity serves commercial and private clients.

The Grand Navy presence both necessitates and ensures that Themis is a clean and orderly station. However, House Skyguard is among the most tolerant and cosmopolitan of the ancient elven noble houses, so they welcome a variety of visitors, clients, and residents.

Notable Locations

• The Comet's Dust: a cozy pub that caters to adventurers, mercenaries, fixers, and the like. The bartender is Jassin Torina, a dwarf bard (L15+, they/them/their).

Culture

Themis Station has a mix of long-term residents, regular visitors, and one-time visitors just passing through. The core community is the "shippies:" the many shipwrights, engineers, technicians, summoners, laborers, managers, accountants, and so forth focused on the station's main mission. Their families also work, go to school, and engage in recreation on the station. It's very much a "company town:" almost everyone either works for the shipyards or is related to someone who does.

The regular visitors include the officers and crews of Navy and private vessels. They may be at Themis for a few hours or a few days, but they'll often be back. Themis is a key resupply node in the vast network of patrol routes in T'Aramont space. That network includes the major shipping routes. So while transhipments and other trade are modest on Themis, many major haulers pass through.

One-time visitors include adventurers. They may be looking for work or passage on a ship, intel on their missions, or even a ship to charter.

Between the Navy sailors and the adventurers, Themis has a lively retail and club scene. However, the station and the surrounding space is a high-security zone. It's difficult for undocumented or other suspicious beings to even get close to the station, much less aboard. For example, while the respectable officers of a heavy freighter may take a shuttle into the station, the freighter itself and most of its crew will often have to remain at the edge of the system. A series of tanker ships and mini-stations work the system's rim.