A thousand years in the future and the saloon remains the same. Doesn’t matter what planet you’re on, if there are humans or not, the place to gossip, drink, fight, and make friends is going to be similar to America’s original watering hole. Because… it creates a sense of belonging to locals and wayfaring strangers alike.

Take for example the Space Saloon on Mars. It will always be the place to find out who’s who and if you can’t figure it out, just ask the Barkeep. He makes it a point to know everyone’s business.

For better and worse, saloons from yesteryear were male institutions. The Space Saloon does away with those sexist ways. Everyone’s welcome to drink here.

With hints of futuristic technology like the ever present AI, the Space Saloon still maintains ways to keep it old school. For example, instead of a juke box, the piano is the cornerstone for all music. 

The flavor and quality of what the Barkeep pours varies. With few regulations about how the stuff is made you never know what you’re going to get. 

You want three fingers of something hard and neat coming from a top shelf pretty bottle, it could very well taste like kerosene. Other times, it could be of a watered down bourbon with fillers like burnt sugar and prune juice. 

In the Barkeep’s defense, whatever does the trick to get his patrons loosey goosey to start spilling the beans, then that’s where the buck stops. And always will.