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Stalker Shipyards Limited
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Custom Built
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5km
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5km
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500m
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Gethsemane
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Luxury resort, casino, and entertainment station
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Alex Draconis
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Hod Haran's Folly is a custom-designed space station manufactured by Stalker Shipyards Limited. It was originally built as a personal estate for a well-off bounty hunter and a recreation and entertainment facility for his cadre.
Overview
In 42 ABY, Alex Draconis had the station transported from the Lyarna System where it had sat unused and dormant to the orbit of Gethsemane in the Dajorra System. At great personal expense, he had the station renovated and retrofitted into being a premier destination for luxury, entertainment, and gambling. While Alex does personally own a number of the businesses located on the station, the majority of them are owned by other individuals or companies and operate either under lease or through business agreement with the station.
As part of the agreement between Alex and the Clan Arcona for allowing him to set up the station around Gethsemane, all primary services at locations on the station owned and operated by Alex are available free-of-charge to members of the Clan. This includes meals at restaurants, rooms at hotels, drinks at bars and clubs, and any entrance fees for entertainment venues.
Station Layout
The station is comprised of four levels, all built around a central turbolift lobby and covered by a transparisteel dome. There is an electromagnetic mesh integrated into the dome, allowing for station operations to control and filter the amount and quality of light visible at the various areas throughout the station. While this is typically left to an established day-night cycle, there are sometimes alterations made for certain special occasions or events.
The turbolifts are likewise primarily constructed of transparisteel to allow guests a clear view both of the station environs as well as out the dome as they travel between levels. Ornate gold panels and railings adorn the interior of the turbolift cab. One turbolift in each section is reserved for staff and official business use, to allow for no delays in traversing the station in order to provide top-quality service. The central turbolift is heavily secured and accessible only by the owner of the station and his specifically invited guests, and is also the only way to gain access to the highest level of the station where his personal residence is located.
Level 1 - Market, Hotels, Casinos
Level 2 - Restaurants, Clubs, Concert Venues
Level 3 - Parks and Beaches
Level 3 of Hod Haran's FollyThe third level of Hod Haran's Folly is the "nature" level, split in half between a picturesque beach (referred to as "Beachside") and a park and botanical garden (referred to as "Parkside").
Beachside
Beachside on level 3 is dominated by a gorgeous sandy beach with simulated ocean. Waves are generated - gentle waves in the shallower waters with more significant waves in the deeper sections - by a complicated magnetic force system which accurately emulates tidal motion. There is a small stand right next to the elevator lobby where various equipment can be borrowed free-of-charge, maintained by the station. Guests of the station have open access to beach blankets, collapsible beach chairs, towels, umbrellas, water floats, surfboards, one- and two-man kayaks and paddle boats. There are changing rooms and shower stations nearby, which are also stocked with a variety of sunscreens of different formulations appropriate for different types of skin.
At the far south and north ends of Beachside are beach cabin clusters available for rent. Each cluster consists of six cabins, and there are two clusters at either end. These cabins are managed by and can be rented through Mar'eyce, and are furnished, maintained, and provided service at an equivalent level to the "high luxury" rooms of that hotel.
There is a retractable concert venue located just shy of the shallows in the center of the beach. Under most circumstances it is buried beneath and covered by the sand of the beach just deeply enough that guests casually playing and/or digging in the sand will not hit it. With the mechanical design in place, it can be raised and put into use within an hour to provide a location for concerts on the beach as needed and scheduled.
Parkside
Parkside is predominantly built around a nice, sparsely wooded grass park with a couple small hills perfect for picnics or relaxing on. The trees and grass are managed through a recycled water system for both efficiency and environmental consciousness, making sure that no resources aboard the station go to waste. Near the elevator lobby on the Parkside is a stand where things such as picnic blankets, kites, ball-and-gloves, and bicycles can be obtained by guests of the station. One area toward the far east end of the park contains a retractable concert venue of similar design to the one located Beachside, used mostly for either concerts or theatrical performances in the park.
The south end of Parkside, separated from the normal park by a hedge wall, is a botanical garden. Many rare and endangered plants are grown here, with soil and atmospheric conditions controlled as much as possible to match to their natural environments. The botanical garden is one of the few areas of the station not available to guests at all times - four hours of each day are reserved for a team of botanists to work on maintaining, cultivating and studying the plants in the garden to assist both with providing an enjoyable environment for guests and also with propagating these plants for redistribution and replanting around the galaxy. The botanical garden is operated in a partnership with the Wellspring Society of the Aurora Collegium of Sciences.
Level 4 - Estate Level
Level 4 of Hod Haran's Folly, containing Alex Draconis' personal estate
Alex Draconis' Estate
The topmost level of the station is reserved for the owner and his invited guests. The grounds of the estate contain a private beach utilizing the same magnetic wave-motion technology as Beachside. The back half of the grounds is set up as a nature preserve, with a "natural" forest and plains biome populated by many species of animals whose natural environments have become threatened. There is also a small private garden isolated from the rest of the nature area, designed to be used for both hobby gardening and also as a meditation area for when somebody is looking t have a quiet, peaceful place to relax.