"Then I was beaten by Grest men for being with a Tik girl. We had done nothing but buy some knives from a merchant," I said. "I think that the people ...n power are using the fact that there was a war between your peoples many years ago. The fact that you are easy to tell apart because of the color of your skin and hair, keeps you fighting each other instead of throwing off their tyranny." I always try to think about individuals instead of groups of people. It is so easy to harm the wrong person. We kept trying to talk the pirates around to leaving but they weren’t going for it and left a couple of craters in our armour from warning shots. I ordered the dropship to release and attack them from the backside of the Argo. It wasn’t a real fight as the fighters were so fast that we couldn’t get good locks but after a couple final shots they decided we weren’t worth the risk and they left. I don’t know where they are based but I sent a message to the planetary government anyway.The damage. I turned my head toward it finding Jim standing their with a big smile on his face. ‘Hi Jen,’ he said cheerfully. ‘Go away,’ I said angrily as I turned away. ‘What the hell is wrong with you?’ Jim asked. I turned back to him defiantly and stared at him. He looked bewildered making me think he really had no idea why I was mad. ‘Josh told one of his asshole friends about yesterday.’ ‘What a SHITHEAD,’ he declared as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders trying to comfort me. Overcome with fear. What is it you know about the companies?”“Not a whole lot, Señorita, but they are working deep within an old volcanic crater and telling those that are inquisitive, that they are drilling to provide thermal heat.”“Thermal heat?” Spencer says with an unbelieving tone. “Isn’t it already fucking hot here?”“Oh no, Señor, it’s not to heat homes but for production and electricity. True Energy, which is really just a division of True Solar is undertaking the task.”“What about True Merchants Cargo?”.