“It was touch and go there for a bit Piz my man. But once they said we were being sent to The Copper Lane Security Services for detention I knew we had our opening. They happen to be one of the most easily bribable Enforcement organizations in the entire Consortia, hell maybe in all the Three Realms.” - Tasker Gunn, Smuggler. Setting The Home Fires Ablaze. Summer, Earth Year 2901- Hassan’s Corner, The Copper Lane District, Mars. “Yuri, don’t be so stupid.” Ben chided him,

“…And I ask you who is the tramp? Who is the king? Who can say?” -From The King in Rags by Peter Kearney Summer, Earth Year 2901- X Monitoring Station Alpha’, The Stretch District Sewers, Mars “Popcorn, I wish I had some popcorn”. As the Grix sat listening to and questioning the machine called Winston, that stray thought occasionally hovered in the back of the King’s mind as he absorbed everything the pawns were hearing. The persistent mind wander was exclusively projected b