The latter’s private chambers a great vaulted room, its floor a great sheet of polished black palsteel, and its walls lined with flickering vid-screens. The day begins with a private meeting between Interrogator Tanaril Fond and Inquisitor Gavius Valerianus. Gene is a thrill seeking pistol-duelist and flying ace.Īnd Zarkov Theta 113, Zarkov will suffice, a conservative tech priest burdened with forbidden knowledge. Gene Archer, the rakish scion of one of the great fanes of gunmetal city. Her commanding officer Tanaril Fond, Interrogator, former naval arbite, gun happy, cunning, eccentric. She is then properly introduced to her fellow acolytes: Without so much as a scratch on her person she disables one of the servitors arms before the test is concluded. Found to be pure and suitable she gives a brief demonstration of her skills in one of the bloated vessels training facilities, sparing off against a combat servitor. Here she is inflicted with a battery of tests, her body violated her mind examined and her soul laid bare. Welcome to the inquisition”Īnara is brought aboard the Contra-Mundi, mobile headquarters of Inquisitor Gavius Valerianus of the Ordo Malleus.

“My name is interrogator Tanaril Fond, the rumors are true, daemons are real. At his right a figure shrouded in a voluminous red robe, a utility mechadendrite lashing in the air at his side, at his left a young man in a guard style officers greatcoat and stiff wide-brimmed hat. From within emerge three figures, at the head a gray skinned man in plain black fatigues and duster, a black bandana covering one eye.

Overhead, an unmarked black ‘aquila’ lander comes in to lit in the adjacent clearing. Her name is Anara, an assassin formerly in the service of a planetary noble house. Ī young woman, out of place here, goggled perched on her brow, a black cowl and bodysuit. An Idyllic forest on the peaceful agrarian world of.

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