Hi! I'm Peter, your local customs and protocol officer. Welcome to Solarius 17346!
On behalf of the 15 million citizens of Solarius 17346, I would like welcome you onboard our world! We don't often get visitors from Earth.
As you probably know, Solarius 17346 is a forty kilometer long cylinder five kilometers in diameter, based loosely on the original O'Neill design. The picture on the wall shows an interior view. We are all dependent on each other for our safety. For this reason I will reiterate some of our basic rules.
While you have been thoroughly briefed on the customs of our world during your transit, I would like to remind you that projectile weapons are strictly prohibited within the main habitat. Also, tampering with or disabling smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and other safety devices while in the habitat is a class B felony and will be strictly dealt with.
In the extremely unlikely event of a main habitat depressurization, warning lights will direct you to the nearest safety shelter. Emergency pressure suits are located at the areas with orange and yellow interlocking triangles. Remember to don your own suit before assisting small children or any other person.
We are proud that our space habitat is fully capable of duplicating itself from sunlight and asteroidal ore. Still, we have a strict recycling program in place to allow us to put as much new material into daughter habitats rather than replenishing supplies on this mostly self contained world. This system works optimally when you obey our local recycling laws for separating glass, aluminum, iron, and organic materials, and for properly disposing of other matter incorporating things like heavy metals. Otherwise we may have to re-smelt an entire batch of recyclables, and that always annoys the technical staff.
At the moment, our population is rather high, given that we are preparing to populate a daughter habitat which is just undergoing its final pressurization checks. Hopefully this will not inconvenience you during your stay.
If any of our inter-habitat exchange program staff can do anything to assist you in making your stay in Solarius 17346 more comfortable, don't hesitate to ask!
You are now required to fill out our local customs declaration form, and afterward you will be free to move about the habitat as a guest of our world.
