- Famous for “Terminal Hospitality” aka they’re kind of known as a friendly small town to visitors. Generally people don’t come there to stay though.
- Small-town feel. Everyone knows everyone and is in everyone’s buisness
- People use a single name there (because small size, and also b/c so many would be the same) if they have to use a second name, they usually just use Terminal, but there are a fair number of Fnu (family name unknown) and Snu (surname unknown)s
- They live in large family unit dorms, or communal dorms. You can reserve private rooms for whatever (from sex to conversations) but you do have to reserve them
- You’re welcome to have relationships with whoeve you like but actual reproduction is carefully tracked just in case
- Generally have less sense of personal space, and are more comfortable in close proximity to people than people from elsewhere. This can be offputting to outsiders.
- Polyam & multiple relationships are common, in general, the culture is toward multiple-relationships rather than single ones.
- Homecoming: When the Comets come back to terminal they have a celebration called Homecoming, that’s a week of basically partying, etc. then they get packed up with shrooms and sent out again.
- Funeral Rituals-
- Cultural tradition of giving up something valuable when someone dies
- The item is disposed of/destroyed to symbolize how much one has lost in the person’s death
- This isn’t viewed super favorably by many other locations, b/c it’s seen as wasteful
- Bodies are recycled/reclaimed as they are in many other places, but the given up items are disposed of/destroyed not reused.
- Only known location where Starlight Truffles/Sucker Shrooms grow
- Comets: People who want to be part of the community but not stuck on Terminal all the time often become “Comets” basically traveling traders. They take starlight truffles into the system to sell
- The Drought
- A period relatively recently (within the past 15 years) before things got really working well, where resources, esp water, were scarce and rationed.
- The furthest inhabited location in the Sol System.
- Low population, but very small space, people are used to being close together, and knowing everyone.
- Has an accent that is speaking very precisely and over-articulating sounds