Message To: Fellow Hoodlum
COMM ID: Aurelio Escobar
Old friend, it seems that I can't possibly make it in time... delayed at Malta... indefinately for now. Someone missed a letter in my re-registration of the ship and I can't get a liftoff.
BUREAUCRACY ENDS.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor