Sanctuary Station (Sanctuary Station #1)

Prologue

Congratulations! You have been selected to become a citizen of Sanctuary Station.

Sanctuary Station is an initiative created by the Originem to foster community, sustainability, and innovation.

Integrating over a dozen species from across the galaxy, all descended from Originem colonies founded over a million years ago, our space station is the safest, most diverse, and most prosperous place to live in the known universe.

As you have learned over the last year on your “jump-start” satellite, humans are one of many races that call the Milky Way galaxy home.

In fact, over thirty species have joined the Intergalactic Relations Association, and at least eighty percent of these species have been definitively proven to be descendants of the Originem.

Like many other Sanctuary Station residents, your home planet has been made uninhabitable by mass flooding caused by climate change. Due to the misuse of your home planet and its resources, planet-side privileges for humans have been suspended for five hundred years. We are sorry for your loss.

In this video we’ll go over various facets of life on Sanctuary Station.

First, let’s talk about navigation. Our Station is divided into divisions, and those into subdivisions.

You’ll find your apartment address listed by three numbers: first your division number, then subdivision number, then lastly your own apartment number.

Elevators are located in the center of each division and have helpful navigational boards in the corridors.

Sanctuary Station is kept on a twenty-five hour day schedule.

Twenty-five hours is considered the appropriate compromise for all our citizens, whose home planets have rotations from twenty-two to thirty hours.

You will notice that the lighting in public areas will be dimmed or brightened to signify the time of day.

As stated previously, Sanctuary Station is the safest place in the galaxy, so even when lights are low, you can feel secure walking around your new home.

Each apartment is equipped with nutritional printers.

These have been programmed with several popular meals from each species represented on our station.

We encourage you to experiment with new foods and cultures.

All citizens are tested for allergies before arrival and the nutritional printers in their apartments will be programmed with this information.

Sequence codes for all pre-programmed human meals and a sampling of meals from other species have been included at the end of this orientation video.

Prepare yourself for sights that are unfamiliar and strange.

Remember, in the end, we are all part of the same genetic tree and we all have different strengths.

Fraternization is encouraged on Sanctuary Station.

We want to foster a true sense of community and even family in our citizens.

Courtship and marriage between species is legal and encouraged.

Later in this video, we will go over the different species that call Sanctuary Station home.