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Challenge #03465-I177: Missed Connection

The downside to being giant, intelligent, arachnid-like beings is that the ones you want to befriend so often run away. Even many of those lovely ones they call humans. -- Anon Guest

Sargasso stations are always "interesting" in the sense of "interesting times". They're either run by Nae'hyn who use them as retirement homes for decommissioned or retired Gravity Drives, or they are run by low-G insectoids. There is no middle ground.

Welcome to Pappus[1] Station. Bring your own gravity.

Low-G species abound here. They are the creatures that evolved in decommissioned hulks or strange nebulae, and thus flourish. Those adapted to more... traditional environments rarely stay. If they do, there is a special quarter set aside for their gravitational needs.

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