• Location: Public Services Ring, Arla Town
• Address: SE Public Services Ring Road 1
• Surroundings: Next to the Arla Town Market, within sight of the Poseidon Inn ruins

Established in September 2626, the Arla Town Courier Station served as the primary hub for postal, parcel, and message dispatch in the lakeside settlement. Operated under the authority of the Free State of Settlers, it linked Arla’s fishing families and businesses to New Kourou and other towns of the Asari Region. Before the Great War, the station’s red-painted shutters and steady beat of messengers embodied the rhythm of community life.

The Courier Station was destroyed along with all other buildings of Arla Town during the Native raid by the Trando Tribe during the War, leaving only scattered beams and rusting courier insignia as reminders of its role.

• Construction Materials: Built from salvaged shuttle panels with timber framing
• Floors: Single-storey office with loft storage
• Design: Compact, red-shuttered façade with a raised delivery counter and side loading dock

Basement (accessed via rear ramp):

• Maintenance Workshop: Basic tool bays for wagon wheel and Hoo harness repairs
• Storage Vault: Climate-controlled lockers for high-value cargo awaiting transfer

Ground Floor – Arrival & Departure Hall:

• Delivery Bay: Wide bay doors for incoming wagons; conveyor rollers to move cargo to sorting tables
• Passenger Waiting Area: Wooden benches, hydration trough, and basic timetable board
• Public Restrooms: Two gender-neutral stalls featuring the AuroraSan System
• External Hoo Stable: Covered corral with feeding stations for courier mounts
• Arrival & Departure Yard: A roofed, open-sided forecourt where incoming convoys were unloaded and outbound carts were packed and queued.
  1. Unloading Bays: Clerks and porters inventoried goods as soon as carts rolled in, then moved cargo by hand-truck or grav-sled to the basement lift.
  2. Loading Lanes: Fresh carts were lined up, tagged, and loaded for their next leg — whether a short hop to a nearby reservation or the multi-day haul to Firetown.
  3. Passenger Platform: A raised wooden deck with a step-stool ramp where travelers boarded passenger carts once the animals were watered and harnesses checked.

Second Floor – Administration & Offices:

• Station Manager’s Office: Desk, route maps, Desktop Shortwave Transceiver ( A stationary “Desktop Edition” console with extended power reserves for group communication with other Courier Stations across the ExoHuman Shortwave Radio Network.
• Clerks’ Offices (2): Manifest processing, payment counters, reservation ledgers
• Meeting Room: Briefing space for Cart Guides and visiting Trade Guild or Agency officials
• Staff Restrooms: Two gender-neutral stalls with AuroraSan fixtures

• Station Manager (1): Coordinates arrivals/departures, liaises with the New Kourou Courier Service
• Administrative Clerks (2–3): Maintain manifests, process fees, schedule wagons
• Cart Guides (Variable): Guide caravans to loading lanes and local delivery points
• Stable Hand (1): Tends Hoos, manages feed and harness maintenance

Non-Human Staff:

• Maintenance Crew (2): Two Maintenance Bots service wagons and station equipment
• Cleaning Bots (2): The Cleaning Bots sweeps floors, clear debris etc.
• Guarding Bot (1): The Guarding Bot secures the entrance to the transfer yard and monitors after-hours activity

• Public Access: Passengers and couriers were allowed into designated areas only (waiting lounge, delivery desks). Administrative floors and the warehouse required official authorization.
• Operating Hours: Monday–Saturday: 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Emergency transport services were available on-call at night for a premium.
• Operational Rhythm: Morning hours were dominated by long-haul departures. Afternoons and evenings saw incoming deliveries, equipment maintenance, and local dispatches.

• Permanent Guarding Bot: Stationed at the warehouse, active 24/7. Armed with a Guarding Trooper Stun Gun.
• External Patrols: Guarding Troopers conducted daily patrols through the delivery and waiting areas.
• Guest Registration: Passengers and clients were logged into a simple manifest by station clerks.
• Cargo Verification Protocol: All goods over a specific value required dual sign-off by both sender and courier.

Legal

• Send or receive letters, parcels, and express slips using Kourou
• Commission special courier runs for the market or private business
• Scan the public notice board for jobs, missing persons, or rumors

Illegal

• Tamper with sealed parcels while unattended
• Forge dispatch slips to reroute deliveries
• Bribe staff to “lose” a parcel in transit

The Arla Town Courier Station is a hub of intrigue, where every package might conceal more than dried fish or market orders. A misplaced letter could spark a feud, or an intercepted parcel might contain evidence of smuggling. Use its sorting room and dockside yard as staging grounds for tense encounters.

• “The Missing Shipment” – A registered parcel bound for New Kourou vanishes from the station’s storage loft. Players are asked to track it down, uncovering whether it was stolen, tampered with, or simply misrouted in Arla Town’s chaotic dockside bustle.

• Arla Town
• Arla Town Market
• Poseidon Inn
• Funkenberg Fish Factory
• Weber Communication Company
• Service Bots
• Great War
• Beta Age