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; While the orbital harbor serviced anywhere from three to four dozen starships at a time, the traffic and flow diverging into specific lanes towards any number of twelve star elevators across the planet. While the equatorial position of the Dadek Harbor made the blue Zaba Ocean stretch out beneath, the tiny patch of land the orbital lift was constructed upon could only seen by looking immediately down. The umbilical leading away from the ship was encapsulated with a rigid body of metal, but was transparent at several points to allow a view as they crossed a ten meter gap between craft and the station to be received by a waiting Scatterran attendant wearing a blue and white attire matching the outfit of a man at the attendant desk next to her.

“Welcome to Dadek Harbor, Zegen Sesha daar!” The woman said brightly with a smile, despite being Azrik her pronunciation of an otherwise foreign language was well, and as she handed the woman a pamphlet she took a hand up again to wave at the next person in line behind there.
“Welcome to Dadek Harbor ... “

“The next shuttle to Botso Landing will be leaving in twenty minutes.”

Amidst the sudden rush of activity, large airscreens on a far wall were relaying flight times outbound and inbound, as well as shuttle times leaving to the surface of the planet at several locations. Through one of the large windows behind the airscreen, the sunlight from Hydelli’s yellow star was snuffed out as the hull of a Scatterran Navy cruiser was seen eclipsing the station in a close pass.