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LIBRARY

This a double carriage. On the bottom floor there is a corridor running along one side, with a door to enter the carriage itself in the middle of the corridor. Up the stairs on either end of the carriage, the space is open, relatively.

Downstairs appears similar to a public library. The walls are painted brightly and lined with shelves, most of which are empty. Labels indicate that fiction books should be stored here. The wall facing the door is alternating windows looking out into the Void, and posters that seem to be large, blown-up book covers for the more popular fiction books in the train.

Four tables with linked chairs are spaced throughout the car, each one painted one of the team colours, and beanbag chairs similar to those found in the Games carriage can also be seen scattered in a pile in one corner.

A little wooden train with shelves built into it winds its way through the tables, its shelves filled with all of the previously-purchased Merry Little Void Train literature and the first book of several of the encountered but unpurchased MLVT series, including several colouring books. There's room on its shelves for far more than it currently contains. Kheli the rabbit is painted leaning out of the engine window, waving.

Along the far wall to the right are two scanning machines, which can do the following: register new books - as a helpful tutorial on the screen will inform you; provide summaries of books if given a specific title; or check books out if presented with a valid ticket. Passengers can have up to eight books checked out at a time; if someone walks out of the carriage carrying a book not checked out by them, the ICP speakers in that carriage will beep obnoxiously for ten seconds.

Upstairs resembles an academic library. The wall next to the stairs is a similar bank of windows as downstairs, although lacking the colourful posters, instead dotted with landscape paintings of previously visited worlds and unknown worlds both. Rows of shelves divide the space into six smaller workspaces, each with a single-person desk with lamp and bookstand and another window above, bracketed by shelves on either side. The bookshelves muffle sound, creating semi-private spaces around each desk.

The shelves are empty, with labels on each shelf indicating that non-fiction books belong up here.

We will not OOCly be tracking books being checked in and out. If a book is not being returned, please reply to that book's comment to let people know that it isn't available.

Please comment below with any books your character is registering with the library computers, using the following form, to either the fiction or non-fiction top level and under the correct genre or subsection with the book's title as the subject header:

BOOK SEARCHES ~ FICTION ~ NON-FICTION
FICTION: Merry Little Voidtrain ~ Action/Adventure ~ Crime ~ War/Epic ~ Drama/Slice Of Life ~ Horror
NON-FICTION: Void ~ Historical/Travel ~ Educational ~ Entertainment ~ Arts/Sports ~ Philosophy/Religion ~ Health
OTHER: Recipes ~ Passenger Documents

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A void military is a pretty dry book. It talks first about the various laws surrounding military force in the void, the treatise that ban void active worlds from invading each other and the use of military to assist worlds in need.

Worlds are allowed defensive void capable craft in case of an attack from the void.

There are a few chapters on the inspection arm of the void ministry. Out of system #392 the inspection arm was started in the early days of the void ministry to combat the growing crime and violence as more systems entered the void.

Those of system #392 are uniquely suited to the job as their species can cope with the void better than most. They are a psyionic people who share a low level telepathy with each other.

When the inspectors were first proposed their were fears about leaving the security of the void to one world, as well as political issues with having inspectors psychically linked to their home planet and government.

A rather extreme solution was found. The inspectors lose their citizenship of system #392 and are removed from the shared mind space on graduating their training. They join the mind space of the inspectors. They have a void hub that they are tethered to.

Despite the high stakes inspecting is a very popular vocation. They serve the ministry, are incredibly loyal and believe strongly in both the ideals of free travel and interworld cooperation.

Library

A Void Military