=== Races | Commerce | Buildings & Organizations ===

====== MANDALA’S MOUNTS ======

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===== Overview =====
  * **Location:** Public Services Ring, [[new_kourou|New Kourou]]  
  * **Address:** SE Public Services Ring Road 3  
  * **Surroundings:** Adjacent to the [[new_kourou_courier_station|New Kourou Courier Service Station ]] 
  * **Operational Period:** April 2627 – 2632  
  * **Owner:** Rajid Mandala — shop motto painted over the gate: “Second or Third Hand, But They’ll Run.”

Mandala’s Mounts was a small private yard that rented, trained, and transferred [[veyra|Veyra]] mounts to couriers, trappers, scouts, and settlers during the late [[beta_age|Beta Age]].

Unlike ordinary livestock traders, Rajid Mandala specialized in matching experienced riders with Veyras already in [[the_humans|Exohuman]] service. Most animals passing through the yard originated from Nara-Vey entrusted to Human communities through agreements with the [[the_senti|Senti Tribe]]. While settlers often spoke of “buying” or “selling” Veyras, Mandala officially treated such transactions as transfers of stewardship rather than ownership.

The yard closed in 2632 when the [[peace_treaty|Peace Treaty]] and the creation of the [[Federal Breeding & Training Station for Veyras|Federal Breeding & Training Station for Veyras]] shifted Veyra allocation into Federal oversight.
===== Architectural Significance =====

  * **Construction Materials:** Salvaged ship alloys and timber posts on Atrana stone footings; mycelium-brick tack room; corrugated roofing over the stall block.  
  * **Floors:** Single-storey office and stall block; a one-room container house on skids.  
  * **Design Aesthetic:** Functional yard—gate, hitch rail, straight drive-through to the adjacent courier lane.  
  * **Lighting:** Not installed beyond stall lantern hooks — ambient twilight in the [[asari|Asari Region]] suffices; no floodlights.  
  * **Ventilation / Acoustic Control (Passive):** Slatted stall walls with wind baffles; ridge vent; no powered HVAC.  


===== Building Structure =====

  * **Stacked Container Unit:**  
    * **Bottom — Office & Open Counter:** Walk-up, doorless counter facing the yard; ledger desk, rental contracts, deposit strongbox; wardrobe pegboard for student hand; Rest Room with wash-basin and [[aurorasan_system|AuroraSan System]]; [[service_bots|Service Bot]] charging station.  
    * **Top — Owner’s Quarters:** One-room bunk & stove; small rest room; accessed by exterior stair; bell pull mounted at stair post.  
  * **Stall Block (10 berths):** Tie rings, feed bins, troughs; each box posted with a placard (Name, Age, Status: For Rent/Transfer Available, notes). Age entries were reputedly optimistic.
  * **Tack & Feed Nook:** Saddles, harness, repair bench; pellet sacks and hay bales.  
  * **Hitch Rail & Yard:** Mount-up area and quick checks for courier hand-offs.  
  * **Corral Strip:** Short exercise lane along the fence line.
  * **Yard Sign:** Hand-painted motto board beside the gate 

===== Look and Feel =====

Oiled leather, pellet dust, and wet stone; clipboards hang from nails beside stall placards. Chalk ticks mark returns before 17:00, and a brass bell at the container house answers after-hours knocks — if Rajid wakes. Everything is patched and workmanlike: second-hand tack, straight grain scoops, and a ledger that’s seen too much rain.

===== Roles and Responsibilities =====
=== Staff (≈3) ===
  * **Owner–Operator (Rajid Mandala):** Intake, contracts, pricing, sales, and disputes. Rajid Mandala was widely regarded as one of the most experienced civilian Veyra handlers in the [[free_state_of_settlers|Free State of Settlers]]. Several courier riders, scouts, and frontier guides received their first mounts through his yard. 
  * **[[maintenance_bots|Maintenance Bot]] (1, refurbished):** Maintenance of stalls and infrastructure.
  * **Student Stall Hand (1, rotating by term):** Feed and muck rotations, tack checks, yard sweep; issues/returns at the rail.

===== Public Access, Operating Hours and Operational Rhythm =====
  * **Open Hours:** **08:00–18:00** daily.  
  * **Returns:** **By 17:00** (later counts as an additional day).  
  * **Emergencies:** After-hours yard bell at the container house (service not guaranteed).  

===== Pricing & Conditions (2627–2632) =====

|**Service** | **Handling / Conditions** | **Price** |
|**Veyra Rental** | Contract; 120 K deposit; return by 17:00 | 40 K/day + 5 K/day feed; deposit refundable |
|**Veyra Stewardship Transfer** | Evaluation of rider, equipment package, training records, transfer documentation | 400–800 K (condition/age) |
| **Feed Pellets** | Per-day ration per mount | 5 K/day |
| **Late Return** | Returned after 17:00 | Charged as additional day (40 K) |

===== Security Measures =====
  * **Perimeter:** Timber fence with single swing gate; hitch rail inside the line.  
  * **Controlled Access:** Contracts and deposits recorded in analog ledgers; tack/feed store under key.  
  * **After-Hours Protocol:** Yard bell at owner’s quarters; no public night access.  
  * **Armed owner:** Rajid is in possession of a [[windstrike_rifle|Windstrike Rifle]] (located under the counter) and always carries a [[guarding_troopers_combat_knife|Guarding Troopers Combat Knife]] with him.
  * **Regular Patrols:** A local unit of the [[guarding_troopers|Guarding Troopers]] patrolled the Public Service Ring regularly.


===== Player Interaction Possibilities (Legal and Illegal) =====
**Legal interactions (Beta Age/flashback play):**

  * Purchase a Veyra 
  * Rent a Veyra
  * Offer a Veyra 
  * Apply for a student job as stall hand 

**Illegal interactions:**
  * Swap or alter stall placards (age/notes) to inflate value.  
  * Lift deposits or tack from the keyed nook; forge a return time in the ledger.  
  * Borrow a mount after hours by ringing the bell and misleading the owner.

===== Tactical Advice for Dungeon Masters =====
  * **Adventure Hook — The Vanished Mount Ledger:** On closure week (2632), Rajid’s rental ledger goes missing, along with a prized courier-trained Veyra promised to the station. Deposits, ownership, and fines will be frozen unless the book is found. Was it a spiteful student hand, a courier dodging fees, or a quiet grab by the [[jane_bold_gang|Jane Mendoza Gang]] to mask a larger mount theft? Track altered placards, pellet sales, and hoof marks through the Public Services Ring before the ledger resurfaces in a forged sale.

===== Related Pages and Further Information =====

  * [[beta_age|Beta Age]] 
  * [[new_kourou| New Kourou]] 
  * [[peace_treaty|Peace Treaty]] (individual travel restrictions)  
  * [[new_kourou|New Kourou]]  
  * [[veyra|Veyra]]