
        Suddenly out of the darkness a great structure appears. Your scanners
tell you it is nearly the size of the planet Earth. A sign on the side with
thousand mile high lettering declares it the "Intra-Universal Stardock".
A sign with smaller letters (only 250 miles high) says "UNDER CONSTRUCTION."

        As you pass it you notice one more sign, positively tiny compared to
the others done with letters only a hundred miles high. It says:

Coming soon:

Bargoon Equipment Rentals
Computer Universe
Deep Space Map and Chart Company
Federation Offices
Harry Malone, Private Eye
Honest Horace's Used Equipment
Interstellar Fashions
Intra-Universal Towing Service
Multiverse Business Machines Inc.
Pan-Galactic Recording Studios
Shark, Weasel, and Barracuda, Attornies at Law
Singh's Tavern
Smith & Smith, Weaponeers
The Bank of the Multiverse
Uncle Ernie's Used Computers and Bargain Basement
Universal Construction
Yngvi's

        Too bad it isn't open yet....


