Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE
The Traveller, and anyone else emerging from the TARDIS at the point, realize that the view through the scanner failed to reveal some highly pertinent details of their surroundings.
The sun, or what this place uses for a sun, is shining down from directly above the plaza -- high noon! But what can be seen around it is anything but blue sky. It's a view down onto the spires and ceilings of buildings, far far away, with drifting spreads of green floating in the space around it like leafy clouds. Despite the brightness of the "daylight", the shadows it casts are more diffuse than might be expected.
Too, it is apparent that the ground curves away ever so slightly in every direction. The plaza is level enough, locally, but the buildings that tower up around it all seem to be leaning minimally inwards, oriented toward the vanishing point of the gleaming light above. And tower they do -- with walkways and bridges spanning the space between them, wide platforms built around them at various levels. Their height seems architecturally implausible, and some are even built in more dubious ways, built with corkscrewing helical twists in their levels.
Tiny humanoid forms with gliders or perhaps wings can be see launching themselves from above, flying from building to building.
The onlookers in the plaza part as the uniformed trio approach. The three appear unarmed (apart perhaps from the rods borne by the redheaded woman) but athletic, and they move with poise and assurance.
The woman's blue eyes flash as she addresses herself to Trav. "You seem to have arrived at the Habisphere in a highly unorthodox manner," she says levelly. "Would you please allow us to register you? I am Janeth, senior lictor for this district -- these are my deputies Halan and Ches -- and as such I am authorized to put you on the rolls on behalf of the praetor. An accounting will need to be made of any damages made in the course of your arrival, but unless some injury to a visitor has occurred, the additional assessment for your stay should not be severe."