This guide provides directions from Orison's Green Circle hab where you wake up, to the interstellar spaceport, where you can retrieve your ship to explore the rest of the 'Verse!
Before continuing, you can learn the basic movement and interaction controls over in the first section of the Getting Started in the 'Verse guide. You can also head back there for details on how to pilot your ship once the rendezvous is complete.
From Hab to Ship
Upon waking up at Orison, you will find yourself inside a room at the Green Circle Hab complex at Cloudview Center. Get out of bed with either the F key or pressing the normal W, A, S, D movement keys, either will work!
Head to the door and the nearby panel will show an interaction option as you approach. Use the F key once again to open the door. Outside your hab room, turn right to walk, jog, or run down the hall to the floor lounge area and the elevators, shown below.
Approach the elevator as you did the door to your hab and interact with the panel to call the elevator. After it arrives, enter and then use the panel inside to input the command to take the elevator down to the lobby using the option given. The F key is your friend for interacting with everything! In this case, hold the F key and then use the mouse to find and select the Green Circle Lobby destination from the elevator panel's list.
After a short trip and exiting the elevator you will find yourself in the Green Circle Lobby, facing a rather spacious room with a big rock and sand formation in the middle. From here, turn left to go down the hall indicated by the light-blue arrow below.
You should see an << EXIT marker on the wall pointing down the hall towards one of the side exit doors. Head this way and leave the hab complex out into Cloudview proper.
Once outside, you can pause to take some time to explore and see the spectacular scenic views around the platforms. Orison is quite stunning to behold! Before heading off the path of this guide, though, note that straight ahead and on the right after leaving the Green Circle back exit is one of the mass transit shuttle stations. This particular one is the most direct route to the August Dunlow Spaceport, which is where we are ultimately headed.
There will be a timer indicating when the next shuttle will arrive if there is not already one waiting for you! Step inside the shuttle and then relax for a bit while you are taken to the next destination: Providence Platform.
Leave the shuttle onto the station platform once it comes to a stop and the doors open. From here, look for the signs indicating the area where the elevators can be found, which should be to your right.
As you did when leaving the Green Circle habs, call the elevator, wait for it to arrive, then enter and use the panel to select the August Dunlow Spaceport option.
Exit the elevator, turn right, and head through a couple of security checkpoints, followed by some winding passages towards and through the Departure Lounges.
Upon emerging from the hallways, there will be a travel counter on the right and an open air view to the left. This is now within August Dunlow Spaceport proper. Continue past the travel counter and look for the signs pointing towards the Hangars.
Follow the hangar signs past the shops. Just outside the elevators to the various hangars, you will find the Vehicle Retrieval Terminals, also called ASOP terminals. Approach and interact with one as you have been with everything else (the F key).
You will see a list of your available ships as well as various information about the status of each one. Select your vessel and have it delivered, then the ACTIONS option will change to retrieve. Hold F and use the mouse as before with the elevator panels to scroll through and select your ship. After the ship has been successfully retrieved, you will see a notice telling you where the ship has been sent to. If Orison is your primary residence, then this will be your Personal Hangar. If not, you'll be assigned a temporary one instead. Note which one!
Head to the elevators and use them as you have before, this time select the hangar that your ship was assigned as the destination. After the doors open, you will find yourself in your hangar! Nearby there are storage access kiosks to grab anything you need from your Local Inventory as well as another ASOP terminal to call a different ship if need be, however we've already sorted out the ship.
All that's left to do now is to board and get ready for take off!
Time to Fly
Congratulations! You made it through the scenic vistas of Orison to your ride out of town. You can now continue with the flight section of the Getting Started in the 'Verse guide, or if you prefer, just "wing it".
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