The ship makes orbit and receives landing directions in short
order. Sasha takes the ship down through the thin atmosphere.
As the ship descends Sasha and Sharda, on the bridge, notice a
huge typhoon spinning across the ocean. Overnale is only a
little over 40% water covered, but both poles are landlocked,
and much of the temperate and tropical area is covered by a
vast ocean that completely circles the planet. Settled areas
on Overnale are a chain of islands and a narrow fringe of the
southern coast of the northern super-continent. The starport
is on Griffin Island, the largest of the islands and the
nearest to the mainland.
The ship flies across this island chain as it descends, and
after circling the landing field once lands the ship on a
large concrete pad at the starport.
While Paris and Bart are helping the middle and high
passengers debark Doc is "defrosting" the low passengers. It
takes him a bit of time, but he does his job well and none
..that's 850 credits from the low lottery that won't go to
any of the defrostees.
Sharda sends out messages to Killian & Sons, Brown Brokers and
Robert Solasksi about the freight being delivered. She and
Sasha can look into selling the construction equipment the
crew bought, but first they need to see to delivering the
freight that was entrusted to them....and Sasha will need to
field the visit from the local officials, he wonders if on
this planet they *expect* bribes like on Glisten.
Merrin and Des go through standard shutdown procedures back in
Engineering. For the standard landing fee the ship will be
able to draw standby power from the local grid as well as
connect to the local network. This port has some repair
facilities and refined fuel available.
