Bonjoir, mes ami, and welcome to the Luxury Liner Rennes! My name is Pierre-Jean Robiquet VII, the proprietor of Solaire Tourism & Innovations, and the owner and capitaine of this vessel. As a subsidiary of Solar Engineering, I have the heavy responsibility of constantly delivering the brilliance of quality to our customers, and it's no different with what I have to offer to you all with the Rennes.
Witness as the first thing that comes to your mind is the sheer size of the "lucullus" luxury liner's polished, painted hull-frame, which quickly makes you wonder what's in store for you as you book yourself into one of hundreds of the Rennes' luxurious Living Suites. Be amazed as you slowly step into the vast hallways of "La rue de Rennes", admiring the numerous boutiques around the plaza and the countless pieces of art, history and culture decorating the landscape.
Either dine in the elegant magnificence that is "La salle plaque d'argent", or bask in the chaos of lights and confusion and intoxication within "La Rennes-gade". And after you think you've had enough of the glorious sights and sounds of "Le Défi Rennes" and the sports and plays of "L'Arena Amphithéâtre", come and relax within the natural beauty of "Le Jardin d'or"'s greenery, or witness the dynamic transformation of "La Rennes-sauna" from an exciting water park by day, to a soothing mineral spa ambiance by night.
I and my crew know you'll enjoy your stay here in the Luxury Liner Rennes, for it is an experience that will transcend you through the very fabrics of light, time, and the universe itself, in a brilliant solar flash of glory.
As I always say to my wonderful guests,
"When you need work done, go to the other Gallic companies.
When you're done working, come to us."
Au revoir, mes ami, and may the solar rays be the wind beneath your wings. ~ Pierre-Jean Robiquet VII
Living Suites
(Bays 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)
It is mandatory for guests to rent a living suite for the duration of their trip. Each trip lasts for three standard days, or more or less a whole weekend. Below are the different suite options guests can book for, with their given amenities also outlined. Costs are calculated on a per room basis.
> Common Passenger Suite (1,000 Credits; 1 person)
- 1 single bed
- 1 refrigerant footlocker
> Deluxe Passenger Suite (2,000 Credits; 1 person)
- 1 double bed
- 1 refrigerant footlocker
- 1 retractable table-chair set
- 1 holotainment band
> Vacationer Suite (4,000 Credits; 2 people maximum)
- 2 retractable-connectable beds
- 2 connectable closets
- 1 retractable-connectable table-2-chairs set
- 1 retractable love-seat couch
- 2 holotainment bands
- small refrigerator, complete with basic ingredients and drinks
- small bathroom, complete with basic toiletries
> Tourist Suite (8,000 Credits; 4 people maximum)
- 4 retractable-connectable beds
- 4 connectable closets
- 2 retractable-connectable table-2-chairs sets
- 4 holotainment bands
- kitchenette, complete with quality ingredients, drinks and liquors
- medium bathroom, complete with quality toiletries
> VIP Suite (16,000 Credits; 8 people maximum)
- 8 retractable-connectable beds
- 8 connectable closets
- 4 retractable-connectable table-2-chairs sets
- 8 holotainment bands
- large kitchen, complete with premium-branded ingredients, drinks and liquors; optional hired chef
- large bathroom, complete with premium-branded toiletries
- on-call service personnel
*The Living Suites have public laundry areas for all guests to use. VIP Suite's on-call service personnel can also handle their clients' laundries for them.
La rue de Rennes
(Hallways)
This area serves as both a boutique shopping street, and a plaza where various holosculptures and other forms of art from all over Sirius are exhibited. Guests may donate Credits directly to the artists' account via Credit panels when they admire the work.
> This week's art theme: Hopes of the First War
> Current Botiques:
- Rennes Boutique de souvenirs
- Île de la Mode
- Port de Nevers
- planète Marseille
- Kusarian merveilles
La Rennes-sauna
(Bay 6)
By day, this area is organized as a water park, where both kids and adults can enjoy all sorts of aquatic recreations. By night, it is converted into a public mineral spa where the pool area becomes a therapeutic, medicinal hot spring.
> (Day/Night) 50 Credit entrance fee for first hour, 25 Credits per succeeding hour
> (Night) 10 Credits per public spa-massage session (30 minutes); 20 Credits per closed-room spa-massage session (30 minutes)
La Rennes-gade
(Bay 7)
"The Rennes-gade" (Re-neh-gad) is divided into a bar on one part, and a raving nightclub on the other.
> Below are the various liquors currently available in the bar area:
- Wine (Gallic): 20 to 200 Credits per bottle
- Sake (Kusari): 10 to 150 Credits per bottle
- Gin (Bretonia, Kusari-imported): 25 to 350 Credits per bottle
> Entrance fee for nightclub is 30 Credits for first hour, 20 Credits per succeeding hour. No corkage fee for liquors.
La salle plaque d'argent
(Bay 8)
Known in Sirian as "The Silver Platter", this establishment is a restaucafe that also has rooms where corporations and businesses can conduct meetings and seminars.
> Meals prices depend on the type of foodservice used:
- 10 to 60 Credits per dish, 50 Credits for the Head Chef's Daily Special
- 100 Credits per guest for access to the all-you-can-eat general buffet until next buffet replenishment; buffet replenishes every 6 hours
> Meeting rooms cost 25 Credits per room per hour for rent. Adjacent rooms can have their walls taken down to become larger rooms for 5 Credits per room.
Le Jardin d'or
(Bay 9)
This is a nature park that uses biodome technology to maintain a stable mini-ecosystem where guests can relax as if planetside. It is also where guests can ride one of Gallia's mounts, the autruchor (golden ostriches), and race them with other guests in the Rennes Autruchor Course.
> Entrance fee is 30 Credits per hour, with a 5 Credit corkage fee. Guests who litter will be sanctioned 5 Credits per wrapper thrown.
> Autruchor (Golden Ostrich) Riding is 10 Credits per autruchor per 30-minute session.
> Entrance fee into the Rennes Autruchor Course is 5 Credits per 3 laps, so long as the guest is still renting at least one autruchor.
Le Défi Rennes
(Bay 10)
This area houses not only the liner's casino, but also where guests can enjoy various public digital gaming systems with each other.
> Entrance fee to the casino is 20 Credits, but are given 100 Casino Points upon entering.
- Current CP-to-Credit exchange rate is 10 CP's per Credit.
> Entrance fee to the public gaming area is 20 Credits, but are given 100 Play Chits upon entering.
- Current PC-to-Credit exchange rate is 10 CP's per Credit.
L'Arena Amphithéâtre
(Bay 11)
This part of the liner has five small arenas that surround a much larger arena called the Grand Arena in a crescent fashion. Guests can set up sports matches on one of the outer arenas, while the center arena is used for live-action cultural plays and theatricals.
> Entrance fee for a sports arena costs 25 Credits per hour, same rate per succeeding hour.
- Arena 1: GravBall
- Arena 2: Parkour Park
- Arena 3: 3D Laser Tag
- Arena 4: GravTennis/GraVolleyball
- Arena 5: Open Area
> Attending a Grand Arena play costs 30 Credits. Each play lasts 2 hours, from 06:00 to 24:00 GMT.
Les Courtisanes Rennes
(Other Services) (open only to those above the Gallic Legal Age of 20+)
Supporting the ideals of "Free Love", one of the Rennes' other services are the "Courtisanes". More than just glorified prostitutes, these well-payed, well-trained, and especially well-treated men and women are taught not only in the primal arts of courtship and love-making, but are educated in all manner of subjects and topics in order to cater to guests of any and all backgrounds. So long as clients treat them with respect, they'll happily serve and sate the guest's every carnal whim or romantic fancy.
Courtisanes operate only at night, when kids are usually asleep. They can be found either at "La Rennes-gade" nightclub, or at "La Rennes-sauna" at night. Each guest can hire a maximum of two Courtisanes for themselves, each averaging at 20 Credits per hour. Clients can "share" a courtisane, but they each must pay the courtisane hiring fee. They'll also refuse to be hired if your Living Suite has a minor staying there.
After hiring them, they'll offer the client a few options as to where they can partake in each other's pleasure:
> La Rennes-sauna: rent a spa-themed room for 5 Credits per hour
> La Rennes-gade: rent a rave party-themed room for 5 Credits per hour
> the client's own Living Suite: free-of-charge, optional 5 Credits additional for the courtisane to bring 'toys' to the suite
It's important to note that guests who hire courtisanes don't actually have to partake in the act of love-making. Courtisanes can be all manner of types, from escorts, to entertaining companions, to even de-facto tour guides for their clients. Many times have the Rennes Courtisanes even served as valuable networks and liaisons between people and VIP's that seem out-of-reach to the masses.
Robiquet Discounts
(Miscellaneous)
Pierre hands out discounts to those pilots and people who have aided the Rennes in its time of need. A discount can be used for any one of the options for the duration of a trip:
> 30% discount on all purchases for the duration of the trip
> free Tourist Suite for the duration of the trip
> entrance fees into the main areas stated below are waivered for the duration of the trip:
- "La Rennes-sauna" entrance fee
- "La Rennes-gade" nightclub entrance fee
- "Le Jardin d'or" entrance fee
- "Le Défi Rennes" entrance fees, both the casino and the public gaming area
- "L'Arena Amphithéâtre" 5 sports arenas
Current eligibles for the Robiquet Discount:
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Company Discounts
(Miscellaneous)
Members of the following corporations and private individuals who have had a hand in the construction and upgrades of the Rennes one way or another are given a permanent 10% discount on all of their purchases aboard the Rennes.
Corporations whose members can avail of the discount:
> Gallic Metal Service
> EFL Oil and Machinery
> Ile-de-France Shipping
> Solar Engineering
Private Individuals who can avail of the discount:
> Goodfelow Gasper, AIRFRANCE
Versailles Residence. A Palace class station, and with good reason. The largest space station in Ile-de-France, and the most culturally significant of Gallia's history. Billions, if not hundreds of billions of credits, had been put into the construction of this magnificent behemoth over the span of two decades. The grand overseer of this station, King Richard V, unfortunately couldn't live long enough to witness the last of its panelings be welded into place. It must've been painful for him not be able to see his beloved station come to fruition.
Yet... ever since its construction, it has done little more than to be a massive thorn for future Crown Monarchs' budget plans. Well, a well-ornate and gold-plated thorn, to be more precise. Royals still visit the station from time to time, to admire the grandness of its halls, the beauty of its arches, and the marvel of its fortress-like design. But its mere existence puts a strain on the government's time and efforts, just from its maintenance alone. That's not accounting for the many terrorist groups that have wished to do harm to the station, just to prove some sort of "point" that they wield control over the fate of Gallia. They've proven unsuccessful so far, on account of the tight security forces that both the GRP and the GRN dedicate to this station. Forces that they feel could be put to better use in the front lines.
And so the station sits here, in Ile-de-France... watching patiently over its people, a platinum-plated white elephant without a purpose or a goal for the future, other than to look pretty and suck the lifeblood of its country. People look at the station and see uselessness on a divine scale.
... Pierre, however, saw potential for his fledgling company.
The CEO of Solaire Tourism & Innovations, Pierre-Jean Robiquet VII, sighed as he turned off the datapad, then threw the device on the couch. He'll think about his plans for another day. For now, though, he had more... pressing matters to attend to.
And speaking of which, then came the sounds of his Captain Suite's door sliding open as a woman in a tight-fitting, blue-and-white jumpsuit walked in and said, "Capitaine Robiquet... You summoned me?"
Pierre turned to face the white-haired, red-eyed woman and said, "Oui, madam Regaille. But it seems that you've run several minutes late on meeting me today. Here in the Rennes, such tardiness would be deemed... unacceptable."
The woman pouted slightly and shuffled to him, her hips swaying with each step she took. "Désolé, capitaine. I'm sorry if I've displeased you. Is there... any way I can make it up to you for my transgression?" She leaned forwards and placed her womanly arms over his shoulders, making her bosoms brush against his chest.
The man grinned and eyed her shapely form with hungry eyes. "I don't know, madam Regaille... I don't know if your tardiness could ever be forgiven," he said.
She whimpered, "Oh please, capitaine. I'll do anything for you if it will appease your displeasure... Anything!"
"Anything, you say? Well..." He moved his hands down her sides until his fingers reached her luscious behind. "In that case, I'm pretty sure we can reach a compromise well enough. In the meantime... you can start by stripping yourself off of those cumbersome garments. They look quite uncomfortable to wear, if I do say so myself."
She pulled an arm back and reached for her jumpsuit's zipper, dragging it down and exposing her bare, sensitive skin to the room's warm air. When the zipper had reached as far down as it could go, she shimmied her shoulders and hips from side to side until the jumpsuit undid itself and crumpled onto the floor.
Feeling relieved, she looked again into the CEO's eyes and whispered, "I do feel much better now, capitaine. But I get a feeling you won't be pleased with just having to look at my naked body, oui?"
"No, I'm afraid not, madam Regaille. You say you'll do anything, so now I demand you give me satisfaction, our proper meeting can wait, I suppose.
"And please... it's just Pierre, my little sweet."
"As you wish, Pierre. You can call me Josephine, if you so desire, m'amour," she whispered as she closed her eyes and softly puckered up her lips. He could feel her chest heave quickly in anticipation for what would come next.
"Josephine... that's a wonderful name." He then moved in closer to her, and laid his own lips onto hers. Soon, their tongues quickly danced in the midst of fiery passion, her own tongue willingly submitted to her lover's superior command.
Never breaking from the kiss, Pierre then picked her up into his arms, and laid her gently on the bed. After what felt like minutes of heated exchange, they finally broke away, both of them a little out of breath. Pierre took this opportunity to bring his hands together and gave a few claps.
On cue, the lights turned off, and shrouded further events for that night in secure darkness...