(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/19/SpSpSaloon.jpg)<br/><br/><br/>1700 hours - The<em>Space Sprocket</em>is somewhat crowded, but not packed.  It serves a mixed crowd, laborers from the port and the ships, some lower level business types, but very few tourists, who didn't come to this town to eat in a place so "rustic" as this.  It may be the reason the owner spends so little on upkeep, especially that part that can be seen from the outside -- to<em>keep out</em>the tourists.<br/><br/>Much of the crowd will probably clear out once many of the workers have a beer or two and go home.  Others will be there well into the night.<br/><br/>There are as many people here for meals as for just the alcohol, but it isn't a family restaurant.  The only children to be seen are some urchins hired to bus tables or sweep the floor.  The first of the dock workers who slip out somewhere around five or a little earlier have their first beers and a few are pulling out the cards for a friendly game.  A couple of the tables have checkers, and one a chess board.  There's a roulette wheel that isn't being used.  On a large viewing screen mounted to the wall between tables D and J is a game that looks like something between cricket and a gang fight.<br/><br/>Adorning the walls and hanging from the rafters for ambiance are various mechanical parts mostly associated with space travel, and all of them obsolete.