What you read below is in the first person, as though Tracy is herself speaking, but only because I think it sounds more real and includes the emotion...l pain that Tracy passed on to Mel.As Tracy Remembers It:“You remember Mel, back a few years ago, just after you moved into the neighborhood? My dad was with us back then but both him and my mom had drug problems. Both their families had pretty much written them off and we were about to lose the house, but my mom pulled back and tried real hard. It was early morning, cold and mid November, the skies were still dark outside, and as I stood inside the entrance of the tower block, where I delivered my morning papers, I was confronted by a man, a flasher, or whatever you call men who liked to get it out and show a girl his hard manhood.At school they told us these men do this for the 'Shock and Awe' effect, they mean to frighten us, they never mentioned their demands for us to join-in and show our tits, not that mine would have helped him,. God help me I don’t know why.”Slowly, hesitantly, she said, “So in your fantasy how would something like this work?”She bit. I explained the general outline of my idea to make her a monthly sales prize for the salesman with the best month over month increase in sales. After thinking about it a bit she said “So I would be a whore and you would be my pimp?”“That’s is a very crass way of putting it”“Let’s label it for what it is OK?”“Are you upset, offended, disgusted?”A longer pause as she eyed. Currently the Empire was producing a relatively cheap and quickly deployable planetary defence grid that could keep the Ravagers at bay by giving them far more casualties and damage than they were comfortable with, making taking on a planet with one a risky proposition for the small flotillas based around a heavily armed Corvette they preferred. The Regnat itself was rebuilding its internal ties as well as increasing its fleets based on swift reaction groups to chase down the Ravagers, as well.