"Cool!"

Niko puts the necklace on!

They turn and point the camera lens at the floor and ceiling. "Hey Archer, what are these glowy circles for?"

"Ah… Sorry, I should probably hurry, right?" Instead of standing around asking questions about everything that catches their eye.

"There's not that much of a hurry... As far as I can tell. It's been a long time already. Anything that's broken, was already broken. If there's ever a time to hurry I'll make sure to let you know. But there might be a better view out the door! The circles indicate where people might appear - they could appear right in the middle when they use it, or closer to the edge, and the machine won't turn on if someone is in them, just to be extra safe."

"Oh, okay!"

They turn back towards the door. What kind of door is Niko looking at? Is it just a normal door they can open normally, or is it some complicated ✨SPACE✨ door? Space ships in TV shows never have normal doors, they're always sliding doors or iris doors or something. And usually they need a password or palm print or eye scan or something to open. But Niko doesn't know if that's what real space ships are like.

It's a swooshy two-part silver door! It swooshes open quite satisfyingly when the motion sensor is triggered.

Beyond it is a nice hallway, with huge tall glass windows that have a view of a vast, mostly dark space. The sight doesn't really make sense at first. There is a patchwork of lights in the distance, looking almost like stars, but on closer inspection they reflect off of parts of buildings in the distance, as if one is looking down on them from a great height. It's dark enough that most of the place is effectively invisible, but a few stringers of intact lights curve up, going all the way to directly overhead, as if they are on the inside of a vast cylinder. Which they are. After Niko's eyes adjust, a bit more of the place can be picked out, with faint shapes of hills and forests and towns barely visible in moonlight-like illumination.

It feels kind of chilly. Ice is riming the windows and halls, and there's snow outside, revealed by the lights of the welcome facility's hallway.

"Oh... Of course. The sun is off."

Ooooh.

Woooowww.

"How big is this place, Archer?" It looks bigger than Niko's whole village! Bigger than lots of villages put together! But maybe it's an optical illusion or something. Can a space ship really be this big?

"This is the biggest part of the ship, it's three miles across the cylinder and twelve miles long from end to end. We're on the inside, and it's spinning just a bit- Do you know how when you're on a swing set, you feel heavier when you're swinging back up? The whole ship is spinning just a bit like that, except it just keeps going all the way around. There's also some parts that don't spin up front and at the back. The engines and the ship's bridge and things like that."