Shore Leave Diversions for Mothership

1. Heavy drinking in a spacer bar. The air reeking, the chatter in a hundred languages. Survival stories are traded like rare currency.

2. Holocade games. A glittering micro-jugle of high scores and visual overstimulus.

3. Smokelounge. Inhale your drug of choice reclined among cushions and local artwork.

4. Tea house. The rim has a million ceremonial variations; each brings its own kind of peace.

5. Busting pit. Work a shift breaking down trash with a hammer. Cathartic and earns you a few credits. 

6. Theater. Larger ports often play host to acting companies. Bodies on stage! Or clunky animatronics, on tighter budgets, playing the hits with all the elegance of a power drill.

7. Sensory deprivation tank. Oh nothingness! Oh annihilation! What a comfort. Algae slime and silence.

8. Group meditation. Empty space; a precious resource. Lie with other bodies in a haze of chemical incense. Work towards enlightenment, practice being dead, or just take a nap. It's all healing. 

9. Sleep. With the engines shut down, the shuddering is gone. Get some much needed natural shut eye. Maybe even real dreams; nothing like the greying hallucinations of cryosleep. 

10. Go on a date, if you can find one. If you can't, most ports have them for hire. (Rates vary.)