Customers

Every customer belongs to someone. The game tags each visitor with a faction, and how you trade with them moves your standing with that faction. Most have something to sell or a budget to spend; some are trouble that looks like an ordinary customer.

Factions at the counter

Group	Who you’ll meet	Reputation track
Lower Levels	Neighbours, workers, doctors, inventors, scavengers	Yes
Upper Levels	Residents, servants, private chefs, charity organisers	Yes
Security	Officers, inspectors, requisition officers	Yes
Black Market	Thieves, shady dealers, the janitorial staff	Yes
Revolution	Raiders, quartermasters, fighters	Yes
Sector 13 Cartel	Handlers and soldiers	Yes
Tourists	Visitors from other stations	No

Scavengers count as Lower Levels customers. See Reputation & factions for how standing works.

Scavengers

Scavs bring salvage, and sometimes blood, to sell. You were one of them before the Mentor found you. These are the faces the game gives its scav customers:

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Tourists

Tourists come down from other stations looking for something authentic: local snacks and something to relax with, a rusted piece of scrap as a souvenir, or a small weapon to display back home. “Everyone said not to come down here. So naturally, I had to.”

Visitors with stories

• Georgio brings questionable salvage and asks you to fund a spaceship.
• Eleanor falls from the Upper Levels and asks for help; helping affects a later visit.
• Officer Lun returns for medicine, with conditional later scenes.
• The Salvage Ship Pilot talks about salvage outside the station as a separate minor customer.

Customers who aren’t what they seem

• Wanted criminals can walk in under an ordinary title. See Wanted.
• Augs, people controlled by a rogue AI, look like anyone else until they slip. See Augs & the rogue AI.
• Security officers fish for evidence at the counter. See Security.

Sources: the game’s localization tables (ClientName, Dialogue) and code (StoreClientFactionSetup, SpriteDict), demo build 049-Rev3-L.