Episode Nine
Quatra HellanLeader of the Citizens Unincorporated Militia
Not every tool of war is a g*n, or even a weapons platform. When properly employed, even a simple diplomatic gesture can be weaponized, garnering a valuable ally against a shared enemy.
And when the Militia offered to provide Esver Corporation technical aid restoring the environmental station on one of their outlying planets, I considered the move just such a gesture. The Gate Age station had been critical to the planet’s terraforming before the Gate Age, and even now serves to maintain the planet’s habitats. But generations of neglect and a lack of technical understanding had left the station in disrepair, slowly increasing an inhospitable belt of desert around the planet. But Katherine and Roys Aretz, as part of a
