Gulbaran's Bridge
Welcome to Gulbaran's Bridge, the perfect place to make important contacts, secure profitable contracts, meet interesting bridge dwellers and to spend some of your hard-earned birr. Enjoy the view of the cave of hanging bridges, hunt for rare items at Ariman's antique shop or throw yourself into the simmering hubbub of life on the bridges.
Gulbaran's Bridge is a small block in the station's giant central cave. It is a meeting place for free traders and fortune seekers at Djachroum and acts as an excellent haunt between different missions and journeys in the Rimward Reach.
Newly arrived travellers have often heard of Gulbaran’s Bridge, one of the oldest buildings in Bridge Town. To the great annoyance of the Archaeological Institute, the bridge’s old foundations have slowly become a building site for new buildings and structures and the only thing that is original and unchanged since the time of the Founders are the bridge pillars and the old statue on Gulbaran's square. With its central location, the bridge is crossed daily by countless Djachroumi and is also home to a couple of three hundred Nasars, free traders and fortune seekers of various kinds.
The bridge is named after Gulbaran, by all accounts, after a historical person who probably lived during the Founders’ time. Today, no one knows the details but this being Djachroum, there is a great number of theories, often resting on the bronze statue in the Square.
30 Years ago the bridge was a prosperous Nasar colony led by the Tehron and Murabak families but greed and mutual rivalry made happiness turn it’s face away from them and today the two clans only are a shadow of their formers selves.
Gulbaran's Bridge has always attracted newcomers and has over time become a natural base for enterprising free traders and fortune seekers who want to establish themselves at Djachroum. Some stay only until they secured their freight contract then set off, others settle on the bridge and makes it their home. Start-up businesses came and go, and therefore there is also always something new to discover and see on Gulbaran's bridge.
The bridge is located on one of the edges halfway up towards the roof of the cave and has an excellent view of the bustling crowds in Bridge Town and the Shambles. While there are no significant buildings built into the bridge, there is a little wild park below it, Dneguls garden, which despite its fine name is a meeting place for Djachroum's many opor users.
On the other side of the bridge, below the high pillars of the bridge the warren of the Shambles spreads and fine Nasar quarters line up at either end of the bridge. Gulbaran's Bridge is its own small community in miniature that offers everything for new arrivals, from overnight accommodation to new trade contacts. In addition to the places as described in detail on the next page, there is almost everything one could wish for.
In Hassan's Trade and Equipment (Hassan Abuk), you can get most equipment. At Green Sprig Pharmacy, the old widow Hiri (Medicurgy 4) offers simple drugs and medicines and if necessary, can take care of minor injuries and ailments in her tiny surgery. For more advanced care, seek out Dr. Zinja's surgery in the spaceport, Habulis Hospital (a few blocks away) or for the less well-off, the Sanatorium in the Shambles.
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