Armistice

By law and tradition, everyone trekking beyond the massive security barrier of Scavenger's outpost - carried a small pouch full of black pearls at all times. Sitting on the fence between folk stories and accurate history, the black pearls symbolize the peace and security period which ended an old, almost forgotten war between the colony and Scavenger’s native inhabitants. The peace on Scavenger – a small terrestrial planet in a fairly large solar system orbiting Canopus, the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, 310 light-years from Earth – was kept for the past millennium carefully to avoid a repeat of the exhausting five hundred years war the colony was engaged in when t...View all