Talk:Tionisla Orbital Graveyard

There is nothing to do here, apart from ogle graves (and interrogate them).

Some ideas for improvement.

From the Rough Guide:

Tionisla – the dead centre of the galaxy, ho ho. Death might be the Great Leveller, but this is one system where wealthy corpses still hold themselves above the common herd.

You’ll have seen it, if you’ve ever done the run: the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard, “Togy” to its friends, hanging there in solemn splendour between sun and planet. A galaxy of tombs and caskets, sepulchres and mausolea, monuments to past glories and dead heroes. Dead villains, too, truth be told, because it’s nothing more nor less than hard currency that gets you a spot in this cemetery halo now, and vice pays so much better than virtue in our bad old universe.

The Tionisla Orbital Graveyard.

So what’s so special about this patch of vacuum, anyway? Ancient history, that’s what. Tionisla is where the Co-operative was born in bloodshed, where the TruHu fanatics were smashed at last, where the galaxy was saved for civilisation, long ago. The ancient battle-wrecks sanctified the site, and made it the chosen place of last repose for all the honoured dead. Then those who aspired to honour, in death if not in life, began to join them. Then came the bureaucracy, the funeral fees, and the profit motive, and now in our less valourous age the only qualification is cold cash. So it goes. It’s still a wonderful place, though. The hot yellow light from Tionisla’s star washes every grave and coffin-ship, and makes each one gleam like gold – until you see those special few which are gold: solid, pure, melting-butter gold, and you can’t ever have even the tiniest little slice of it. Because if you even look like you’re thinking about ripping off one of these rich stiffs, the graveyard guardians will fall on you like raptors on a rodent. Golden sunlight and pathological, do-not-fuck-with security: what more could a body ask for? But we’ll leave the dead to their gilded pleasures, and pass on down planetside. 

Possibilities:

1) activities in station

- visit museum. Details of some of the dead, and the War founding the Co-operative (GalCop?). Battle Standards. Bits of ships with logos on. Tru-hu fanaticism. A gallery of 107 miniature statues of the past Chief Executives of the cemetery.

- museum shop: souvenirs: a real bound book of the cemetery rules and regulations. Mock standards. Copies of the statues!

- cafeteria: menu, possibly meet one or two tourists (some with relatives buried, some from Tionisla, some from elsewhere, grave-spotters, a Chief Executive statue-copy collector. A would-be Tru-Hu fanatic. Grave robbers).

2) activities in TOGY

- Grave robbers

- religious service at grave

- rumour of buried treasure in ship. And issues with getting at it...