Message for Margarita

[Nightfall]

Roy Batty. A Bounty Hunter. Or a fool in love? He was definitely a shadow of the romantic picture of a knight in shiny armor, for the lawful at least, now deprived of all the pride and glory, sitting in a cell below the surface of Planet Malta. He got there after a lengthy duel with Bernard Fokke that ended with a surgical hit to Roy's Manta making it disintegrate in a matter of seconds.

Strike two.

Strike one was making the mistake of trusting an Outcast with taking him to Margarita for twenty million credits.

'True, he didn't promise or gave me his word... Blasted Outcast!'

Everything in the cell lost shape. Everything disappeared.

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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