“…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

“The bustling blue-collar district of Copper Lane has long represented the best and worst of Mars. Throughout the Lane small business owners, bright eyed entrepreneurs and hard-working laborers exist side by side with con artists, crooks, and cutthroats. Still, there is an unwritten agreement between the salt and the scum of the earth in the Lane. The ‘scum’ will try to keep collateral damage from their actions to an absolute minimum in Copper Lane, and the ‘salt’ won’t run s