God of War

I did not enjoy leaving the Luna Fuwuyothi docked for so long without my supervision. But I knew that I could not transport my cargo flying her. Such was the nature of my business that I could not even fly myself at all. I had gotten the cargo from some shady figures that my comrade Stryfe had put me in touch with on Phao. After that I hired a Ska'ari who owned a Harrier-class freighter and could muster some top class counterfit transponder codes. From there it was only a matter of hitting the X-hole to the West Pardus Rim.

I had disguised myself as a crew member of the Ska'ari captain. I mostly sat in the cargo area among a hundred or so tons of rad cells. Once an hour I checked my cargo with a hand scanner to make sure it was not leaking. The seals were good. It would have been totally undetectable, especially behind the masking signatures of all of the rad cells.

The little Ska'ari informed me through the ship's comm that we had arrived in the sector of our destination. I came to the front to give him the final coordinates. We veered away from the wormhole away from the most travelled space lanes. I could see the lights of a hundred ships following one another to a pale blue dot at the end of my vision. We flew at a fraction of light speed for a time. Finally we made orbit over a red planet that had been beaten into what could barely be called Class M status.

We landed in a tiny space port in a region of the world called Argyre. I pushed my cargo down the loading ramp on a light-duty grav cart and walked out into the thin, cold air. A group of humans were waiting for me on the ground. They looked comfortable in the sub-zero air. They were more tall and akward looking than other humans I had encountered.

"I am here to meet Eddie Pearl of the Nergal Underground." I said in my best Human Basic. A bearded Human male stepped out from the group and extended a hand in that oh-so human greeting.

I accomodated his hand shake as he spoke.
"Welcome to Crater Town. You must be the Keldon known as Dex."
"I am." I replied, "and I have your device. It is small enough that you should be able to move it through orbital customs undetected but it is powerful enough for you to make quite an impression."
"Nergal thanks you, Keldon."
I stood by as his comrades took posession of the device. They began to go their separate ways. Before he could leave I asked Eddie one last question.
"Sir, If i may? Why would you be willing to do this to your own people?"
"They aren't my people any more, Keldon. This world has made us different, right down to our DNA. Many of my brothers here are not ready to accept that we are a different species. But you can't hide from the truth."
I looked up into the pink dusty sky at the primary star.
"Very well then, Eddie. Good luck in your endeavor. Do not attempt to contact me again."
I turned and headed for the Harrier. Leaving Mr. Pearl in the cold wind behind me. Before I climbed the entry ramp I bent down to the ground an scooped up a handful of the permafrost. I shoved my nose into it. It smelled like blood on my nostrils. I dropped the handful into the pocket of my coveralls and boarded the ship.