Larana/Travelling

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+There are two categories of transportation that are of interest to the galactic
+traveller: interstellar transport, and planetary transport.
+
+Planetary transport vary greatly from one world to the next, be it the grand
+railways of Ȝħarqalin-Wiirèe, getting you most places on the main continent
+under a day, the relentless aeronautic industry of Telùs-Sol, or the high speed
+drone taxis which zip in all directions accross and between the Lissiya’s
+arboreal cities. The best way to know how to get around a planet is to ask the
+locals
+
+Interstellar travel on the other hand is — at least within the members Galactic
+Cooperation Treaty Organisation — much more codified. Space lanes are cleared
+of most everything by the organisations to allow for supraluminic travel
+without risking the structural integrity of the ships[¹](#note1). Thus space
+travel follows the routes of those cleared lanes, as travelling outside the
+lanes is an activity only reasonable to those who are either thrill-seekers,
+stupid, owners insanely overkill EM shielding, trying to evade the law, or any
+combination of the above. 
+
+From this you essentially have five options when arriving at the spaceport.
+
+The option most common among the majority of travellers is to hitch a ride on
+one of many a crago vessel (most have a handful of cabins spare in the crew
+quarters), in exchange for a relatively modest sum or some work on the ship
+during the transit if you have relevant skills. It’s not fast, it’s not the
+most comfortable, but it will get you around for a minimal price.
+
+If you are travelling a common route, a more comfortable — if a bit more
+expensive — option is to book a slot in one of the regular line ships that
+ferry passengers around.
+
+Going up sharply in price, if your origin or destination is hard to reach or if
+you want the most speed and/or comfort, you can also charter a ship for your
+trip.
+
+If however you are on the tightest of budgets and even a hitching on a cargo
+ship is too expensive, some freight companies offer stasis travel. Basically
+you get into a stasis box, they turn on the box, handle you in your stasis box
+like normal cargo and they turn off the box when you arrive, subjectively it’s
+instant, objectively, it’s as fast as the freight company is, which is
+typically "not fast", also quite nerve wrecking: if you get lost in shipping,
+well the energy core in the stasis boxes are typically good for a millenia or
+two, after which you may wake up to a radically different galaxy. If you don’t
+wake up in the vaccum of space.
+
+Lastly, if you are on are travelling between planets of the United Peoples’
+Federation or some of their closest allies, you’ll have the opportunity to use
+a jump array. For a frankly insultingly low price, you get put into a perfectly
+tuned wormhole and appear on the other side instantly for you (you are
+transported within a stasis field, because directly exposing organics to a
+wormhole has... undesirable effects[²](#note2)) and a couple of seconds for the
+rest of the Universe
+
+<p id="note1">Also the static charge, hitting a large cloud of gas faster than
+a couple kilolights is one good way to zap everyone aboard with the electric
+charge released by the ionisation.</p>
+<p id="note2">Candidate for "Understatement of the standard galactic orbit"</p>
+ 
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