Destination: Efate
Apparently Arc had the same idea!
Yo! Arc! Wait up! Going to do another tour of the starport bars?" he finally asked when he caught up to Arc.
"Mind if I join you?"
"You know... I once had this idea that I was going to visit every bar in the galaxy! Well, Known Space, anyway, but I didn't rule out unexplored parts of the galaxy. I mean, what kind of bar would a race of intelligent octopi have? And what would they drink?"
"Every wonder what such a race would be like? I mean... would they somehow walk upright? Would they still live under water? If they were intelligent, wouldn't they evolve beyond the watery medium? Even if the ocean was vast or even the whole world, there is still the atmosphere, right? Maybe frozen polar regions. Maybe sargassos. And then there are all those stars up above. The sun. Moons maybe. An intelligent species would want to know about those things."
"Okay, I know what you're thinking, and, no, I haven't started drinking yet. But I'm ready!"
They reached Mos Eisley just then. It was at the start of one of the concourses. Efate was one of those radial starports, with six concourses and stardocks on all sides. It made for a very large extraterritorial area. And security headaches, no doubt.
Slipping into the bar, Steve went up to the bar.
"I'll have a PGGB. What about you, Arc? Got a favorite drink? I always hit a new planet running... starting with a PGGB. Puts hair on your chest... and everywhere else, or so they say. I've always wondered where that expression came from. Do you really think there was some guy that drank a PGGB and really did grow hair on his chest?"
"You'd think growing hair on your head would be a better selling point."
He looked around the bar to see what it had for entertainment while he waited for his drink.
"Oh, look... a holoband. What strange aliens. Of course, with a holoband, you can have anything you want, even species that don't really exist. That we know of."
"Wait! Is that... an octopus playing flute, trumpet and sax? That's something you don't see every day!"