I stared out the small port window in the corner of Ba'dqeel's quarters, staring at the trade stations in front of me. I say 'stations' because there must have been a hundred of them floating together over the surface of the planet beneath them like tops on a table.
Each one looked like a toy with a sharp point at the bottom, a round ring in the middle, and a thicker point at the tip that seemed to have some towers or antennas coming out of it. Lights shone and sparkled in the center ring, and while each one floated independently of the other, it was easy to see that they were connected.
Small ships, the size of Ba'dqeel's runner, shot back and forth between the different stations like buses going from stop to stop. A part of me was curious to know what they were selling and why there were so many stations. Did each one specialize in a specific product?
