Gas Giant Structure

The present dark and lifeless interior of the space station almost succeeds in hiding the fact that it must have been designed as some kind of luxurious pleasure palace. There are seemingly endless rows of rusty slot machines, hundreds of decrepit bars and restaurants, and amidst it all, thousands of bodies.

Dead, partially mummified aliens of at least a dozen different species can be found everywhere, but most of the bodies are clustered around the empty escape pod bays.

This derelict station was once known as the "Star Petal" and it was apparently a celebrated luxury resort in this corner of the galaxy nearly a thousand years ago. A small fleet of tugs would drag the station to a new exotic location each year, but … appears to have been its last.

For unclear reasons, the station was pulled into the gas giant's atmosphere where it suffered critical damage.

The archaeologists working on the Star Petal have gathered sufficient clues and evidence to paint a reasonably clear picture of the station's final days. A stray asteroid impacted the station, knocking it into an orbit that would soon plunge it into …'s atmosphere.

Station-keeping thrusters could not compensate, and the command staff soon issued an evacuation order. Unfortunately, the station only had enough escape pods to evacuate a fraction of its passengers and mass panic soon erupted. Those who were not trampled to death perished when the station's environmental systems failed as it drifted deeper into the gas giant.

Rummaging through the secure safes where the Star Petal's wealthiest clientèle stored their personal belongings has revealed a treasure trove of strange artifacts and jewelry. Perhaps the most noteworthy among the found items is the "Heart of the Pulsar" - a unique diamond necklace quite famous in its day for having been worn by five different heads of state.