"... abysmal sink of depravity and lawlessness that is a blotch on the fair countenance of our noble Imperium. We have again petitioned the Duchess in Glisten to do Her Grace's duty to civilization and fully investigate the hundreds of morals complaints, criminal reports, and sociological studies of Grote's so-called 'Old Town' that our organization has produced over the years. Old Town delenda est!"

         -Dame Honoria Irkirkhaamn, Juditrix-Emeritus, Co-chairperson of the Mora Legion of Decency- c. 950

    "... basic common sense, then Old Town is an attractive, if wild, tourist destination. It is both and at the same time not as bad as you have feared and much more worse than you can imagine."

         -Admiral Aramis P. Lee, IN (ret) 'Traveller's Guide to the Glisten Subsector' -1080

    "... during the formative years of my youth and early manhood. Old Town, lovely and bustling, wide open and hustling. She still beckons in my dreams. Old Town, where the people are in and out of each other's quarters with each other's property all day long. Would you care to match coins for the next round?"

         -L.E. Whipsnade, unpublished memoirs

    "...and tattoo the 'prisoners' aboard ship. The yard performs great work, the mercants are amenable to trade and not too choosy about the source of goods and I can even get contacts to trade 'special cargo' where the Impies don't go."
        -Hector Griigarr, MYMINES inmate #GLI00343347, serving a life sentence for enslavement of a sophant at Elixabeth

    In 1112 Larsen E. Whipsnade was on Grote filming the blockbuster "Road to Zhodane". As always he was dogged by debt. He took on the task of a backup report of the system for the Glisten office of the IISS. This site is the result of that work.