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Morigan Wolfe

" This is what Honor and Glory looks like."

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a character in “Into the Void”, as played by Royalburden

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Name: Morigan Wolfe
Race: Human
Eyes: Currently implanted with color changing contacts. They flash red under certain flash lighting but are shown to be the color of the species he is hiding as.
Hair: Jet black originally, currently dyed
Skin: Pale white originally
Note: Nasty Scar behind his right ear where he gouged out his military chip. A few slight scars from previous battles found on other parts of his body.


History: Morigan Wolfe was born on a planet from the Taurus system, one of the oldest settlements after humans expanded from earth. The ancestors that settled there were primarily from asiatic countries in the east and it shows greatly in the original languages and cultures that define it. The planet itself is small and forgettable on its own. Humans were spread far and wide after all and the biggest thing it is known for is their rare breed of cattle created from mixing genes from the earth cow with native species that lived there.

The Phaigian war. Wolfe had enlisted into the interstellar infantry a branch of the largest human military force that was ever known to exist at the very end of the war. The world he was raised on had been one of great eagerness towards the war the entire time it went on, calling for bloodshed to end the vile threat of Phaiges. The humans there were extensively superstitious and feared their blood drinking was a threat to all that was good. Wolfe had ridden on that call to earn honor for his family, to feel as if he had participated in a great victory and contributed to human-kind. He did it because it was the "right" thing. If you'd ask him now, there IS no right thing, just wrong and less wrong. What he witnessed on the Phaige planet was entirely wrong.

To this day Wolfe suffers from dreams of husked out buildings and corpses splayed out as far as the eye could see. Men, women, children, even wildlife. No tree, no shrub, no obscure rare specimen survived humanity's final solution. Nothing. Everything was dust. He wasn't the only one with severe regrets for what they had done leaving tour mid-service was not an option. They had to be sure every last Phaige was dead. Wolfe's company specialized in ground combat. He wasn't any sort of extreme pilot suited for mid space dogfights, his boots stood in mud with his rifle firm in his hands. Many squads of his sort were set loose after the detonation. The weapon was an energy pulse it penetrated anything on the surface, incinerating organic material to ash, fusing bones like concrete. Theoretically Bunkers could protect from most of the energy's initial impact.

Someone had prepared. A large bunker was set in the basement of an inconspicuous home in the middle of nowhere. Drones had scanned the subsurface to find a sprawling underground system that shocked everyone. The entire situation had made Wolfe ill at ease and wary, there was no doubt they would have to go in and kill anything that still lived.

The operation used to search and destroy everything was planned with clinical precision, every soldier had night and heat vision in their implants, their rifles at the ready. Three men to a room as they kicked down door after door. There was no hesitation, Wolfe found himself in a daze as they kicked in, shot dead the survivors and moved to the next room. It was too easy, it went too smoothly just kicking in pointing the barrels in their faces and pulling the trigger. It was like they expected, like they knew they had no chance. They looked at him with hatred and sorrow and pleading but....resignation kept them from raising weapons. Their whole planet had just been destroyed.

The few who fought back were in the large room they'd assembled as a makeshift cafeteria. The doors opened and instantly the main four of his squad collapsed. There was a flash and a piercing shriek that emitted in a quick sharp burst. The chips embedded into their sculls had shorted violently killing them before their brains had time to register what they had set off. Feedback peirced through Wolfe's own chip causing him to cry out and fall to his knees, clutching his protective helmet. Compact laser rifles set off as the surviving soldiers fired into the room, sucessfully killing two of the Phaiges. Wolfe managed to tuck himself behind the cover of an inlet for a doorway to a room they had cleared.

"How many are in there?! What the fuck did they set off?!"

"Hey! Wolfe! Scan 'em! Throw a scanner in! You hear me?! We need to see where the fuck they are."


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Morigan Wolfe's Story

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Wolfe blinked forcefully, adjusting the hue in his eyes to flicker in with a deep sea green with slight shreds of gold along the edge. He peered down at the puddle his boot had settled in and stared at the dark wiry seaweed green threads of hair that framed his unfamiliar face dusted in false texture ripples trailing down the sides of his cheekbones. It would have to do, as long as he didn't get himself punched in the face it should do. It should. Texture grafts were convincing. Convincing enough... Anxiety crept up the center of his chest like the fetid gas that stirred up heartburn but he merely solidified his nerves and strode into the bar. He tugged at the collar of his travel jacket and willed himself to absorb the atmosphere around him and blend in. His gait became natural his expression lazy and exhausted. He stepped aside to allow the Fungarian to pass by him. His gaze lingered on the creature for a moment before he took his seat at the bar. He was an informant. A very good one, his biggest advantage being that he was hard to identify and even harder to find. Every time he entered a bar such as this one he wore a new set of skin, he carried a different gait and spoke in a different dialect. Tonight he was a Rajillion, a reptilian species native to an ocean planet, around his throat was a non functioning respirator, its inactive indicators blocked by the thick collar of his jacket. He ordered his drink in a well practiced gutteral watery tone, like that of someone sick with phlegm with the sea faring jargon popular to the region.

"Give us a Rotten sputner, Giin. Cool, no ice." The bartender fulfilled his order a cup of some foul smelling gray foam too thick to be appetizing.

It was about then that Wolfe spotted the hooded figure barely noticeable. He'd been at the job for more than three years, he could spot a merc when he saw one. His danger meter rose swiftly as he was reminded of his situation hiding away in some throwaway bar in a throwaway corner of a star system. Hiding. Always hiding. Who would they send for him? Why of course the one sort that could find him and end his dishonor. His fear cycled like a snake chewing on its own tail before he couldn't take it any longer. He slapped down a couple of coins and downed the sputner before rising to his feet to leave.

"Credits only, can't you read?!" The bartender barked

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Vance noticed a Rajillion walk in as the Fungarian walked out the door. His empathic abilities quickly picked up on the anxiety rolling off him in waves. He was good at keeping his composure in spite of this and Vance knew that there were not many reasons for someone to be that anxious even in a place like this. His psychic abilities were not nearly as great as the fake legends would’ve had everyone believe. He was able to tap the thoughts of others but he couldn’t fully read a person’s mind. The subconscious, deep thoughts, memories, none of them were accessible through his basic abilities, that required what his people called a mental merge interface, a technique used by his people as one of the most intimate acts of love, once it had been done you would know literally everything about the other person.
Vance tapped the alien’s thoughts. He wasn’t Rajillion, he was human! He was an informant, but it wasn’t clear who he was there to meet or what information he was planning on giving. The human gave his garbled order and then turned around scanning the room, he assumed looking for the person he was informing. Vance kept his head down and the hood covering his face, but he heard the thoughts of the human recognize him as a mercenary. He was really quite impressed, no one had even been able to spot that from first glance. He wasn’t known as the shadow of death because he was obvious. He saw the guy gulp down the putrid drink he had ordered and attempt to pay in some weird type of coin.
"Credits only, can't you read?!" the gruff bartender barked at him.
“This should cover it.” Vance said emotionlessly as he dropped his card down. He felt the bolt of sheer terror rip through the human as he did so. “What has this guy done?” he thought to himself. “Nice grafts, but whoever did them didn’t pay attention to the details. They forgot the webbed fingers, Rajillions are aquatic reptilians. Also that respirator of yours is lower than where the gills of a real Rajillion would be. But don’t worry, you’re not a target of mine. I know you’re an informant, but why do you need to hide the fact that you’re human? Also, how were you able to tell I was a mercenary?” Vance asked in a hushed voice so those around them wouldn’t hear. He kept his face forward and his tone just as dry and flat as it had been with the bartender.

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Wolfe slowly settled back into his seat, a conspicuous move even for his recent sequence of clumbsy events. He looked more annoyed than scared at this point his panic switching to a more defensive nature as the mercenary spoke, pointing out all the flaws in his disguise. He brought a hand up to the respirator and glared at the stranger with a sidelong look then did what came as second nature to him and told half truths. "Would it surprise you that people want me dead and that I would assume, you being a mercenary would be the one to make someone's wish come true? You do that for the right price don't you?"

He'd dropped the accent completely but spoke in such an undertone that it was unlikely even the bartender could hear him as he bustled to and fro and made to look busy cleaning things. Wolfe dug into another pocket, inside the jacket rather than outside and pulled out the credits he had intended to pay with earlier.

"Do what you do best and accept the money, mercenary and I'll do you the favor of forgetting I ever met you if you do the same."

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“While it doesn’t surprise me in the least that a human, like yourself, has others who want him dead. And while it is also true that, for the right price and with a certain amount of personal pleasure, you would have been dead before you sat down, but, as I said before, I’m not here to kill you.” He turned to glare at the human, while his face was still cloaked in the shadow of his hood, his eyes glowed intensely, as though they might emit laser beams, with the insult that had been lobbed at him. He ignored the bolt of fear and shock he picked up as the human saw his eyes. “Furthermore, taking money is far from what I do best. Killing is my specialty, many call me the shadow of death. I’m sure there are just as many out there who want me dead as you, probably more. Does anyone care about the people I’ve rescued? Does anyone care about the priceless artifacts that I’ve retrieved? No. The only thing I get credit for is the killing. So tell me, Mr. Wolfe, what could you have done to warrant so many people wanting you dead and why are you so desperate to make me go away?”

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Wolfe had to be dreaming. It was one of his night terrors come to life. Those eyes! The palor that bleached his face was visible even with the dusting of green and false scales. This wasn't possible. He was mistaken no doubt there are countless creatures out there that could have eyes exactly like that. The Phaige couldn't possibly be the only one. The calm that came from his tone was in eerie contrast to the waves of mixed emotions that spilled from him like a bad oil leak.

"You're right, why not. Why not confess my sins to you, a stranger." He said with a laugh that didn't match his sarcastic tones. "I've got a lot of questions for you...admittedly...Why don't we get out of this dump. I can take this crap off my face, and we can talk like men."

Wolfe rose to his feet, expecting the mercenary to follow. He didn't take his time, tucking his hands into his pockets doing his best to calm his mind. IF this stranger was one of them, if his paranoia was true he knew how best to fight him, how best to kill him if he needed to. Step one was to not want to, to not intend to, and he didn't. He was going to take this stranger to his hideout for a drink, yes that was all. "I have a place, nearby I've used as a nest-..."The rest of his sentance was lost as he used one hand to push the door open and made as if to forget to hold it open for him, allowing himself to slip past and out of view, for a split second. Wolfe wasn't sure if the mercenary would be able to read his intent at that point, he moved as smoothly and as quickly as he could to pull the small toy-like pistol from the holster at his chest.

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Vance was getting an overflow of emotions blasting his empathic powers. He couldn’t focus on Wolfe’s thoughts as he quickly dashed for the door. Vance kept his movements at an intentionally slower speed so as not to raise suspicion. He knew that there was a good chance that his reputation had reached Earth and the galactic council. He knew that if they even suspected the Shadow of Death of being Phaige it wouldn’t be long before they started sending assassins to take him out. He couldn’t tell if this Wolfe guy was actually an informant like he seemed to be, or if he was a very well-trained killer with experience in killing psychics. He didn’t trust this guy and he felt certain that he was walking into an ambush situation if he walked out the door but he knew this guy had some sort of information that could help him get his revenge. He reached into his robe and pulled out a small dagger. He pushed a button on the hilt and a plasma stream began to glow along the blade’s edge.
He opened the door to see the ships of many of the patrons in the desert landscape of the planet. There were large walls around the outside of the property to keep the Steel Claws out. The Steel Claws were a race that had taken up residence on this planet after war had destroyed their own. They were a feline humanoid race that had glands in base of their finger tips that secreted an organic steel-like compound onto their claws that got harder as they got older. They were vicious pirates and they attacked anyone unlucky enough to cross into their territory. This triggered suspicion as to the validity of Wolfe’s claim to having nest.
He kept his blade low and hidden as he walked into view and saw that Wolfe drawing a pistol. “Now, is that really the best idea? I get the lack of trust.” He said as he revealed his blade. “But how am I supposed to answer any of your questions if you kill me?” He turned the plasma off on the blade and set it on the ground. He raised his hands up in a surrendering gesture. “Look I don’t know what you want from me, but surely we can work something out. Like you said let’s just go talk.”

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"Shut up!" Wolfe snapped, cutting him off as he spoke, the gun barrel trembling slightly as he pointed it at him. It wasn't an impressive weapon, it seemed to be crafted out of a single piece of polished metal giving it a manufactured toy-like appearance. It looked fake, but the mercenary would have been able to identify it as a cheap but effective low powered energy pistol. It was dirt at shooting in any decent range but would do its job in his circumstance. Wolfe was definitely not a killer. He didn't want to kill anyways. Nevertheless he held the pistol with the skill to do so. "Take the hood off. Take the damned hood off. I want to make sure. I have to make sure you're not one of them. It's not....It's not possible. Those eyes. Y-you have to be something else, I want to make sure."

He was babbling now, clearly out of his right mind and he'd catch a bad sort of attention if he kept at it like that. A spark of self-awareness caused him to realize this fact and his eyes darted to both sides, attempting to plan a better way to seek his answers. "Y-you stay right there at that distance, we're going to that ship over there. It's mine. Don't try anything stupid."

Wolfe traveled in a nondescript interstellar space vehicle, a cruiser adapted for mostly mid-range pond skips. It was tiny, built for at most three people to live inside and had an old fashioned hyper drive system that shut off most of the main interior lighting to prioritize power. Wolfe spent many lonely weeks drifting through space under the dim glow of backup lighting re-reading old earth magazines he collected from different planets. The vehicle itself resembled a grasshopper almost with jagged wings jutting upward and back like the characteristic legs and it's shining exoskeleton of radiation shielding sharp and angular in appearance. It seemed to crouch, its head bowed low its entrance tucked right behind it's "head".

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"Take the hood off. Take the damned hood off. I want to make sure. I have to make sure you're not one of them. It's not....It's not possible. Those eyes. Y-you have to be something else, I want to make sure." Wolfe demanded in a slightly trembling voice. His thoughts ringing clear in Vance’s mind. Before Vance could respond he noticed him looking around as if coming to his senses at least a little bit. Vance noticed a large metallic being of an origin he didn’t recognize making a trade with some Blunu, exchanging a large crate for some credits.
"Y-you stay right there at that distance; we're going to that ship over there. It's mine. Don't try anything stupid." Wolfe ordered.
Oddly the ship was parked right next to his own. His was a sleek model from the Ter ‘Entella system. It was shaped like a large teardrop with four bat-like wings in an “X” shape. The ship was big enough for a small crew of four people at the maximum, but could easily be piloted by one. He had also made a number of improvements to the engines and installed an artificial intelligence to make the ship easier to pilot on his own.
“Okay, I’m going. I’ll take my hood off in the ship, I can’t risk it out here, it could cause a panic if anyone saw.” He walked to the ship’s entrance and walked inside keeping his hands raised and his eyes on Wolfe. He saw glimpses of his memories that he had right at the surface. The horrors as Wolfe killed the last remaining survivors of his home world. The sadness and remorse he felt before he ever pulled the trigger. This man may have following orders, but he wasn’t a killer.
Wolfe walked into the ship and Vance waited until the door closed. He slowly grabbed the edges of his hood and pulled it back and down. He lifted his head to face him. His iridescent blue hair shimmering in the dim light of the interior like an oil slick on water. His glowing blue eyes staring at him, not with anger, but with empathy. “Yes, I am Phaige. I’m the last Phaige as far as I know. None of this is your fault, you were following orders. And now you’re faced with a choice; do you finish following orders and kill me as well or will you do what you know is right?”

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The inside of Wolfe's ship was incredibly cramped, there were two pilots seats situated at the very front down two very steep steps that cut into the floor more like a ladder. It was like a Space worthy camper van with no windows along the side, only jagged gagues and indicator lights and two handle rails in bright red trailing along the arched roof. The narrow one man hall that made up the body took up the majority of the space and the pair stood in it as they had their interaction, their hairsnot far from brushing the ceiling.

For a moment Wolfe stood gun pointed at the Phaige his mind recalling the last moments he'd seen a face like that kneeling before him, loathing in that iridescent glare, the pleading...not even the children...

Wolfe's gun clattered to the floor. He couldn't see straight due to tears welling up in his eyes and he fell to his knees before the Phaige all semblance of speach desintigrating into wails. So many years of post traumatic torment. Travelling from planet to planet to hide from people who never searched for him. He belonged in that empty grave.

Wolfe dug his hands into the thin electrical fabric that coated his face, feeling its crackle as its curtain of electricly charged scales tore like tissue paper. Flakes of golden graft fluttlere to the floor and he rubbed fervently at his eyes to get the contacts to fall away. He crawled to the hem of the Phaige's robe and took his hand pushing the gun into his palm looking up at him with irritated eyes.

"I have waited for a long time....s-surely fate intends for this...for you. The tables are in your hands, I...I am yours now." He muttered incoherently. "It's OK." He said finally.

He sat back on his heels and lowered his head, and then...his mind cleared. The frantic energy of his obsessive paranoia and fear finishing with a decided calm as he realized his easy escape. His solution. His redemption. Death. The Phaige had managed to break him without laying a hand on him. No. He didn't do that. The human military did that when he was ordered to commit genocide. When he was forced to look into the eyes of a family and end them all. His own regret did the rest. Wolfe had been from the start a pawn in a larger game. A pawn of a pawn. A foot soldier in a political mind game that had turned natural human animocity towards the Phaige. Sent it crashing down upon them. Wolfe came from a planet that hailed their destruction, praised it with celebratory flags and goung Wolfe joined that cause out of obligatory pride. How best was an young man to find his honor and place? His family loved him for it.

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This planet was unsavory for Lendri. She had been noting the looks she had been getting from the planet's residents as she wandered around the ship parking. While she was large on all fours, she was now carrying a flat piece of metal, a glowing metal tube, and a couple paper texts that made her even taller and larger than usual. She seemed to be a foot larger than the average Arkata, A leonine race from a desert planet that are known for being very tall due to the gravity of their planet. The plate had a purpose however, a wing needed to be fixed as well as needed fuel. Her ship was a re purposed two decked Teludir Scout Cruser, made larger and wider to accommodate atleast 10 to 15 of her kind. Covered in hyroglyiphic writing of her people made from the paint found while planet hopping. It was a good bit larger than other ships, but no less run down if not a bit better maintained aside from a cracked wing plate.

She hummed again, seeing two beings walk into a ship a few parked ships away. She couldn't really tell what they were, but one looked exceedingly paranoid. In this business, that was a good thing. To a point anyway. Lendri knew that not many people would mess with a Forge walker with the knowledge of what she could do. Even then, her size was intimidating. As she ducked into her ship, she noticed things out of place. Somethings in places she didn't put them. A crash from the back of her ship caused her to drop her things and rush to the back with a loud and booming roar. A smaller Steel Claw thief with scrolls and books in his arms and was about to leave with his loot. Now he was squirming under the foot of a purple venting 'walker. "I dooown't know who sent you to collect my texts, but your promisss for credits are for nothing." She growled as the Steel claw screamed in pain from the heat that was being emitted from her hand. Her books and texts were scattered around them as she opened her maw around his head. Within minutes, the screaming stopped as well as the thrashing. The smell of burnt fur wafted through the air as she lifted her head back up to revel that the face had effectively melted under the radiation and heat. There was less mess this way.

Lendri started to rummage through the corpses pockets and bags, taking nearly everything of value. Weapons, credits, even things that didn't seem to matter like the metal bits found throughout his fur and thrown into her maw. At this rate, she was expecting company due to the screams of pain. She threw the corpse out of her ship as she climbed up to with the metal sheet. Fixing this wing needed to be a quick job so she could leave. She had credits to make and time was surely money at this point.

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Vance looked at the smooth pistol in his hand. Without thought his fingers instinctively clasped around the handle. He looked down at the man before him who was baring his true self to him for the first time. His eyes, now a deep dark brown, had looked up at him with such honesty as the façade he had built up to protect himself had crumbled away.

“My planet was peaceful. We were technologically advanced in many areas, though we never left our star system. Many races from nearby star systems would trade with us. I was fifteen when the first Human ship entered our planet's atmosphere. This was long before the Earth had even heard of the Galactic Council and we were excited to meet a new species. The humans explained that they were there on a mission of exploration and they wished to get to know our species better, trade with us and learn about our culture. Our highest representatives explained that we never left our system for safety reasons, but that we would gladly trade with them. The humans didn’t mind and things were fine for about a year. That’s when the humans became interested in our power source, tridaxium. The cores of my planet and its moons are composed entirely of tridaxium and it leeches to the surface in large deposits. Tridaxium is a unique crystalline mineral with a unique ability to absorb and store a near infinite amount of kinetic energy. Over the billions of years that my planet has been rotating, it has obviously stored quite a bit. It could be tapped as easily as any other crystalline power source, so naturally it could be quite dangerous if it got into the wrong hands. We knew they would want to weaponized it, but we couldn’t allow that. They fist asked us to trade it with them and we explained why we couldn’t do that and that’s when they began to research our past. They found out how we feed on plasma and in the past there were some who fed on their enemies in times of war. They played on the fears of the human masses comparing us to a creature from your ancient myths called a vampire. Then came the accusation that some of my people had begun killing humans in order to feed on their plasma. It was a lie, but that didn’t matter, there was already fear and the damage had been done. We asked to humans to leave our system and never return. They refused and we informed them that this would be an viewed as an act of war. So they left.” Vance paused a second. His voice began to crack as he told his story and fought the urge to cry. “We thought that was it. Six years of strife was finally done. The humans left our planet and we would never have to deal with them again. But then a different set of ships arrived. They were huge. There was one last communication sent to the entire planet stating that if we gave them the tridaxium they would spare our planet. The next morning, they used their sweep pulse weapon to erase my people. I was in a mining camp on our third moon when they fired the weapon on the planet and I knew the moons were next. I figured the only chance for survival was to get underground. The camp would listen to me and assumed that the humans weren’t smart enough to use the weapon on our moons because they didn’t know about the mining camps there. None of them survived, including my parents. I was the only one to survive in that camp. I knew scouting parties wouldn’t be far behind to kill any survivors that would have been underground. Luckily we were in the process of filling one of the mining ships and it was in the mine and safe with me. I took the ship and left the moon as fast as I could and headed for the Tar ‘Entella system, the closest system with no ties to the council. I’ve been on the run for the last eight years now, and I’ve watched as Earth used dirty politics to gain control of the Galactic Council. During that time, I’ve made a reputation for myself as the best mercenary in the galaxy. You’re the first person to see my face since I left.”

He looked down on the man and then to the gun with a slight look of confusion. The genocide of his people had been the catalyst that flipped the switch on his emotions. He was dead inside. It was the thing that allowed him to kill others, whether it was a client’s mission or because they got in the way of him fulfilling a client’s mission. He was able to take them down without a second thought, no remorse, no mercy. Now, here he was looking down at a man who was responsible for murdering at least a small group of his people. A man who was literally putting a gun in his hand and begging him to pull the trigger. This was a man that deserved to die, a man that he wanted to kill more than anything right now. But he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. His thoughts went to his family and friends. They wouldn’t want him to do this. Tears began to roll down his cheeks and dropped to his knees to look Wolfe in the eyes once more and slid the gun across the floor to the other side of the room.
“I can’t kill you.” He sobbed. “Every fiber of my being is telling me I should, that I can’t trust you. But, in spite of that, I know that murdering you will not bring peace to either of us, only rest to you. You’ve been running for so long, you’re so exhausted. I will help you to find the rest, the redemption you deserve. But, in return, you will help me to get the justice I deserve. We will help each other.” He stood up offering a hand to Wolfe to help him to his feet. “Also, it might be a good idea to take my ship, it’s roomier.” He said after banging his head on the low ceiling.

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Wolfe slowly got to his feet, dazed he wiped his eyes and looked around him at his ship. It had been his home for so long yet the roiling in his stomach told him he wouldn't miss it. The place had been the prison he'd isolated himself inside, the vehicle he used to run from his guilt. Wolfe was still having trouble attempting to register the fact that he was still alive. There was a bit of resentment there quietly sitting at the bottom of his chest at the fact that he could not pull the trigger, but a sort of relief was growing there too. Redemption. The idea sounded painful and difficult but the hope tasted good, real good. This Phaige was looking for justice, answers towards why and how and who did this to his people. Wolfe's logical mind ticked back into gear one engine at a time.

"Y-yes...We can...sell this..." He said in a husk of a voice. "I have...important documents. Military information. It's outdated....but..."

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly and he pressed himself against the wall gesturing for the Phaige to slip behind him. It really was a cramped ship. He had never truly realized as much. Not once had he agreed to travel with anyone else. "I should have...kept my chip. It had encrypted data that you would have deemed useful." He murmured once the Phaige had gone behind him. His paranoia didn't quite leave him all in one fell swoop. He continued to glance over his shoulder instinctively but his mind seemed to be at peace with the Phaige's presence. What would it matter to him if he decided to change his mind and shoot him in the back. There were three bunks in the ship, all as small as walk-in closets with curtains instead of doors to separate them from the rest of the ship. One held all of personal items, his cot laden with magazines a crate of liquor sitting underneath and a galactic map tacked to the wall with various colored pins stuck in specific spots around stars. Each color representing something different, mainly associations and use. Around the map were pictures of just about every sort of alien that was commonly known with their names written in english and their native language. On his slim little metal dresser sat a couple of digital texts and an electric pipe that needed cleaning. He kept a pistol beneath his pillow and another taped up under his bed.

Wolfe passed by his cot room though into the second bunk which had been repurposed. The bed was folded up into the wall replaced with a desk. Wolfe rummaged over it picking up a Kodai disk set, a device which held multiple media chips that contained anything from digital documentation to audio and visual recordings. He thrust that into Vance's arms and rummaged through the desks hesitating when he found his military badge, torn right off his uniform. Sentimentalism threaded through the human species like a thick piano wire he wasn't going to allow himself to forget for as long as he lived. He tucked that into his pocket. "Those Kodai have information on them. Old propaganda, news articles, and orders that were sent across planetary barriers. Things your planet would never have seen with your isolationism. It is incomplete. Our systems are so spread out, so intricate now. I don't know who set it off, who started the call for war but they all called for it in the end. High presidents, Chancelors, Prime ministers, Planetary overseers. There is too much in the chain of command now, the politics...The current prime minister of the Galactic Council benefited the most on the outside, but a lot of power was shifted when he rose. It's deeper than I ever would have thought. If you want your revenge...you're going to need a strong plan."

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Even all the credits in the world couldn't help the sense of loneliness in her heart. The day of the attack still played on in her mind as the screams of her friends and family scrambled to gather as much of their people's history as they could and hop on any ship to get off planet before the city was cracked open. An entire navy trying to pick off any escaping ships racing through meteor belt to escape. It was only by pure luck that a good majority had scattered like roaches, but the planet was a complete loss as it was over taken. She even knew that her race's counterparts had to have made a run for it off planet to survive.

Lendri lifted her head to the sky, watching ships lift off and fly to other worlds like she had been for the past four years. It was tiring, knowing more of her kind were out there but unable to connect. That or she was looking in the wrong places. It wasn't easy to find your kind when you all never had a distinct style of ship. Still this planet had at least some variety in terms of being and to her knowledge this was a planet outside council control. With another client that was a no show and things to sell, it wouldn't hurt to mill around.

The Wing itself was stable with her maintenance. A quick weld and flick of the shields to see if it would register was all it took. Telidir ships had pretty good defense and good for trade work. She hopped off of her ship on all fours, shaking off the shock with a clang of her plates. As flexible as they were, they were still mostly metal. The ship yard was mostly barren, which was mostly normal. Assuming most were either away or asleep in them. But it was the sound of two people talking, what about she couldn't decipher at the current moment, but it was something. They weren't her clients, but having a lead wouldn't hurt if they had any information.

The gait was slow and thoughtful. Making sure she speed off at a moment's notice if they proved to be hostile. Though this didn't stop her from knocking on the side of the ship with purpose. "Fotxilan*, if one does not mind, I would like to ask you some questions." Her English was passable at best, enough to understand most clients fine. At the very least she hoped that she would get her point across.

*Fotxilan = roughly "excuse me", literally "I wish for your attention"

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Wolfe froze as a muffled metallic clanging rang against the side of his ship. He pulled open the top drawer if his desk and armed hunsekf with a pistol before squeazing past Vance to get back to the entrance hatch. He released the door and kicked the short ladder down to peer at the alien milling around looking for him.

"What do you want? I want no trouble." He said stoutly. He had never deeen a creature such as her before and he wondered vaugely if she was less creature and more machine. "Answers require payment."

He didn't point the gun at her, frankly he wasn't sure the energy bolts woukd penetrate her...well...whatever it was. But he made it clear that he was armed, holding the gun in his right hand.

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Lendri's eyes blinked behind the face plate, tilting her head to the side as she rumbled with curiosity. "I come with no trouble. I have credits, weapons...a working engine for this pod." She couldn't help but notice the condition of this little ship of his. It looked like it could barely hold hold him let alone her. Steam bellowed out of her vents like a sigh as she kept her attention on the ship's occupant.

"I only wish to know if you have seen anymore like me. In another system or planet maybe?" Her words were measured, as if she were making sure that she was using the right words. Her head tilted to the side once more, eyes falling on gun in his right hand. "Also, that will not help you against my kin. It bounces off every time." she mentioned matter-of-factly. It happened quite often. Other races try to drive her off from her own ship thinking she was a monster and shoot at her with energy bolts only to annoy her. Then again, being an advanced race that once quietly tended to it's own affairs made things difficult once everyone had to scatter to survive. She even wondered if the Ice-scrapers were having this same issue. Then again they might have had it worse since they looked even more like beasts due to their cold side of the planet.

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Wolfe looked her over and glanced down at his pistol. He could say without a second thought that he had never come across a creature like her before. She was....bizarre. It looked as if her insides were made of fire and magma, steam billowing from her vents as if she were a steam powered machine. Any human from his home planet would have called her a demon. "I don't suppose you'd sell me a weapon that could harm you, would you."

It was a joke, a dead one at that, he didn't chuckle afterwards, only glanced back at his ship. "I'm selling her, I don't need an engine, and I'm sorry to say but I have never seen the likes of you before." He turned, about to enter the ship again when he paused. Wolfe had survived all these years by finding information, things others couldn't find themselves. Surely he knew of someone who could at least point her in the right direction. That would take time, time he no longer had now that he was aiding the Phaige. "I am very busy at the moment...but with time, and credits I can find someone who may know something. What's your name and origin?"

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Among the more battered, grimy looking ships that populated the landing area, there sat one that differed from the usual line-up if one cared to give it a second glance. It was sleek of form, its body almost leaf-shaped, with a pair of swept wings on the sides. The hull was dark green in colour, with what looked like a faint honeycomb pattern on the plating, and the cockpit windows were polarized and appeared opaque from the outside. From within said cockpit, Ebensomanth looked out at the other ships as he took his time with the pre-flight checks. He and his colleague had spent the past day or so looking for odd jobs here. Plenty of work that involved 'removing' certain individuals causing inconvenience to certain other parties, though there wasn't much the Armojan could find that suited his own specialties short of tending to one or two gunshot wounds.

The scientist snapped out of his boredom upon seeing a large, metallic creature make its way out of one of the buildings, carrying a few metal parts, possibly for ship repairs. A Forge Walker! He had never seen one in person before! Scrambling out of his seat, Eben dashed off to find his Helvan companion. Such a sighting could hardly go by unreported.

"Khazrin! Come quickly!" he called out, his beady black eyes gleaming with excitement. "Out on the landing strip, I've just seen a Forge Walker! I didn't know there were any living around this region... Or could it be a traveller, perhaps? Often are, around a place like this..."

The Helvan nodded lightly, and stood up after polishing his sword. Their recent 'tasks' got some stains on its blade. While not as excited as Eben, not really grasping the wonders of alien lifeforms, the sight of a such a weird and unusual creature certainly awakened something in the stoic bodyguard as they left the ship to investigate. Could it be curiosity?

Khazrin preceeded the scientist a couple of steps, warily scanning the surroundings until he saw the entrance of what appeared to be a space ship - and the metallic creature standing before the hatch. Quietly, Khazrin pulled the Armojan closer and slid behind a wall tall enough to conceal him. "There's a human," the Helvan whispered through his visor, not concerned but rather doubtful. "He is armed. How do we proceed?" He asked Eben, even though deep inside he knew the answer...hopefully, the human won't mind the...'interruption'.

The Armojan chuckled good-naturedly in the face of his companion's concern, though he did have a point. People with weapons drawn in places like these were more inclined to shoot first and ask questions more as an afterthought. "Proceed? Hmhmhm... Why, we shall convey that we mean them no harm, of course! If things do turn sour- not saying that they will - then we know what to do from last time, don't we?" Listening in on the conversation at the ship, Ebensomanth could easily make out the Forge Walker's booming voice. Sounded like a female, unless he was mistaken. She seemed to be talking about fixing the human's ship.

"Ah! Pardon me, but would you happen to be a Forge Walker?" he enquired hopefully as he walked towards them. "It is very exciting to finally see one of your kind in the flesh. Or steel, rather. I had read that they were more sedentary creatures." He made sure not to look threatening, though the bodyguard behind him may have hampered his efforts. Who knows what sort of reaction the sight of an Armojan in an ill-fitting trenchcoat designed for two-armed creatures and a Helvan in battle armour might evoke.

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Lendri sighed, another cloud of steam rolling out of her vents. Another dead end. She rumbled a frustrated mutter in her language to herself, just about to turn and leave; but his proposal of finding someone for her to aid her in her troubles. That was something new. Her head tilted a again at his request. "I am called Lendrinia Vokilla. A Forge-walker from Krocrekstil*." She bowed slightly, a common gesture of her kind when giving a name and standing upright. The human was at least helpful, even if she towered over him. It was not very often she met another that was all tall as her to begin with.

Her vents turned in the direction of the inquiry, an excited tone that confused her enough to even have the vents turn in the first place. If anything she was more used to having other flee or be very very careful around her. "What does one want with this Yigbaryi**? And sedentary?" The word choice was confusing to say the least for her. Not she didn't understand the word, she did as a matter of fact. But she wouldn't describe her kind as such. More like the opposite unless they were spending time on the surface. Now that she thought about it that may be why he mentioned it. Time outside of the twilight band left them quite tired and unwilling to move much once they returned to their cities under the surface. She turned toward the pair to look at them. She only seen an Armojan once or twice from a distance and she had never seen a Helvan in her life.

She dropped down to all fours again, lifting a paw up to open a hologram of what seemed to be database of some sort. It flicked through pictures of other raced that she encountered before it shut itself down. Another bellow of steam rolled out from her vents, she was starting to crave water at this rate. Even hot metal needed to be quenched every now and again.

*Krocrestil - Forge-walker homeworld

**Yigbaryi - literally "one of the core", what the forge-walkers call themselves.

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While Wolfe went outside to investigate the source of the thumping on the side of the ship Vance pulled his hood back up to hide his face. He walked out of the ship to find three other aliens. He recognized the plant-like Armojan and his Helvan companion, the Armojans had traded with the Phaige in the past and surely they were aware of the destruction of his home world which seemed all the more reason to keep his face covered. He didn’t need too many more beings finding out that he had survived. The Forge Walker was a race that he had only met once in the past. For the first time in a long time he felt at a disadvantage, he wasn’t able to hear the thoughts of the Forge Walker due to the metal plating, nor could he hear the thoughts of the Helvan because of his armor. However, his empathic abilities were working perfectly, but with so four of them so close together it was difficult to tell which emotion was coming from whom. There was an overwhelming feeling of cautious tension in the air as well as excitement and optimism. He had heard the Forge Walker asking about seeing others. He watched the hologram of all the different species she had met until it was over. He took note that there was no picture of the Phaige

“I’ve met one of your kind before. I think he said his name was Kaztild. He set up a shop on a junk planet in the Tar ‘Entella system. He was a nice guy, he helped me rebuild this thing from the ground up.” He said as he raised a hand and pointed to his sleek black ship parked next to the one he walked out of careful not to let anyone get a glimpse of his face. “I believe the planet was Tharas Nine.” He turned back to Wolfe as he was picking up thoughts of worst-case scenarios with these aliens from him as well as a bit of anxiety. He took a step towards him and whispered just loud enough for Wolfe to hear. “Calm down, they don’t want to kill us.” Though he knew that Wolfe already knew that, this would be a terrible place to kill them, too many witnesses. “How about we all go get a drink?” Vance suggested to the group picking up on the Forge Walker’s thirst.

Normally he wouldn’t have suggested this, but he remembered that Armojans had history with humans as well and he might be able to get some information that could be of use. After that, though, he knew he had to return to Phaigea, his planet. Specifically, he had to go to the mining camp on the third moon where his parents were working. He knew that even if the humans knew about the mines on the planet, they had no idea about ones on the moons. He knew there was a recording of the final communication from earth before they fired their weapon. If he could get that to the non-human members of the Galactic Council, he could get justice. That’s where Wolfe would come in, Vance couldn’t just walk in to the council building without being killed by the human guards, but Wolfe could get the recording and any other information to the non-human members with less chance of being caught.


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Wolfe could live without the extra credits he could have earned from the metal beast, a disappointment though it was but the sudden invitation to bring them all out for drinks gave him pause. "Now, hold on...Is that wise? Let's not forget where we are we can't just bring Happy-go-lucky and his tin man into a brawl bar. Not when they mistake a landing dock for a safari of curiosities and intrigue. At least the furnace seems like she can handle herself...n-no offense." He glanced sidelong at Lendrinia. "He's too showy. Listen...I know someone who could keep an eye on my ship and we can get out of here. Safer among the stars."

Fact of the matter was he hated the curious energy the Armojan was giving off and even more the dutiful silence of his guardian. They didn't belong there. He faltered slightly, remembering the fact that the only reason he still drew breath was out of kindness of the Phaige. He had no right to make complaints. "Or...at least...we should at least get to the orbital, there's a sit down restaurant and its a regular by-way for merchants and shippers. Safer."