“Once one has mastered sailing through the realms of possibility; any return to so called reality, even temporarily, can be devastating and should be avoided whenever possible.” – Sut’ Munthu “The Dream Strider” Pawns Without a King? Summer, Earth Year 2901- Some side Alley’, Copper Lane District, Mars. ‘Winston’ paused for a moment once the pawns were certain they weren’t being chased and they could no longer hear the chaos of Hassan’s Corner in the distance. “These side

“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

“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