Club StarDust



"Ladies and gentlemen, there is only one rule here and that is to SHAKE...YOUR...BOOTIES!!"

- A DJ welcoming visitors to Club StarDust

Club StarDust was a large space station that acted as a dance club for all manner of beings from across the galaxy. It was noted for its conspicious appeareance--namely, an enormous glittering sphere that in later years was said to vaguely resemble the. Hovering in a stationary position in space near the Terax Nebula, it proved popular for both high society and commoners simply wishing to have a good time. It could accomodate at maximum ten thousand beings, and hence had seventy-eight different dance halls which were always playing something at any given time. Several luxury restaurants were also located there.

The space station itself was about ten kilometres in diameter, with fifteen docking bays along its equator. It was unarmed, relying on local jurisdiction for protection. In the centre of the sphere was the main reactor, which was an advanced type that needed to cope with the constant lights and advanced sound systems in the dance halls of the station.

Built around, by the mysterious magnate known as Shan Drievax, the station immediately became popular, and even in the visitor numbers remained high, and it was often used to host celebrations for events such as the end of the Clone Wars. However, during the more puritan times of the Empire, the music there was toned down and the management was forced to play pro-Imperial tunes. When the Empire collapsed, the station held its biggest party yet.

Layout
Club StarDust had a fairly simple layout. In the top and the bottom areas were maintenance areas, reactors, and artificial gravity generators, all of which were strictly off-limits to all but station personnel. In the north pole area of the station, just below the upper maintenance area of the station, were offices and areas for the exclusive use of the administration. There was also the private quarters of Mr. Drievax himself, who was almost never seen. In the southern part above the lower maintenance areas were quarters for personnel and technicians. Sandwiched between this were the various dance floors, with the vast majority of levels in this section of the station devoted to dance halls, discos and the like. Also located on most of these floors were bars, restaurants and rooms for beings who had arrived for various dance competetions or simply needed somewhere to stay.

Each dance area could be tailored to the preferences of whoever was hiring it out or simply to the sort of music that was being played; for example, if classical was on the venue, the dance hall would be decorated to have an ornate feel; or if it was disco or pop music, decoration would be absent and instead the room would be darkened and illuminated with fluorescent lights and disco balls. Dance halls could also be holographically altered to provide exotic dance locations, such as a Coruscant rooftop or a famous space location. Each dance hall had expensive, state-of-the-art sound systems and speakers to provide optimum music quality; opinions of the music itself being played varied.

Loctaed along the equator were fifteen docking bays of identical size, each capable of accomodating at the maximum a large yacht. There were a few docking bays that were private or reserved for VIPs. If there was no room available in the bays, tractor beams would hold spacecraft in orbit around the station and shuttles would transfer visitors aboard.

Although unarmed and reliant on local law enforcement for protection, the station was equipped with medium shielding to protect its expensive shiny exterior and from dangerous radiation emitted from the nearby Terax Nebula. If all non-essential power was diverted to this shield, it would be strong enough to withstand fire from a large capital ship for months. Fortunately for the management, this was never necessary.

Also located aboard the station were special observation longues from where one could observe the nearby nebula, which had a reputation for being one of the most beautiful sights in the galaxy, especially during ionical implosions caused by subatomic solar reactions within the nebula, which would result in beatiful multicoloured flares.

Construction
Construction of Club StarDust began in, when the basic frame was put together at Drievax's personal shipyard at and then placed using tractor tugs in a location near the Terax Nebula. Drievax never made it entirely clear why he desired the construction of this, although some believed that it stemmed from his complaints a few years about the lack of decent dance clubs in the Republic. Initial construction went smoothly, but then construction workers began to suffer radiation sickness due to the meson streams from the nebula, a problem which threatened to scupper the whole operation. The foremen present responded by constructing anti-radiation shield generations around the site, which greatly nullified the problem.

Soon, the basic interioral structure of the space station was complete, and work began to move on to the shiny exterior.