Planet - Osiris - Blackout Zone (11 Years Ago)

[Hollywood Heidi]

Blackout Zone

Located on the planet Osiris. A deserted spot where monitoring devices are impractical and often malfunction. Criminals on Osiris are known to take advantage of the "blackout zones," and to combat this tendency, local security punishes anyone found within a blackout zone with instant jail time, whether engaging in criminal activity or not.

Events taking place 11 years ago.

[Ariel]

The low lit bar was crawling with vermin from White Sun black markets and outlaws alike. Trying to earn a buck, trying to survive in this god forsaken corner of the galaxy where civilians either ran towards the government like sheep or ran away. Some of those who decided to run got themselves into circumstances where they were left with no choice but to become rebels and wanted men. And Dex diverted eye contact with every single one of them as they passed by their table, tucked into the darkest corner of the establishment as Niles Wilder was right in the midst of a job that would pay them enough to step up their game. Dex recalled the plan in his head, get into the blackout zone, obtain the you-know-what, get the hell out. Don't look at nobody, don't talk to nobody. Leave the schmoozing to yours truly, and tilted his gaze into his glass of what he had presumed to be a murky version of whisky as he listened intently to the conversation at hand.

"Y'heard right. So what - I was an ex-machinist for The Alliance until they fired me. What makes y'think I'm still in business, bub?"

Five shiny, silver plates adorned with star emblems fell onto the middle of the table from the fingerless gloved hands of the lone ranger, "These credits do anything for ya, Dormeius?"

"How'd you-"

Niles let out a lowly chuckle, "I've been in this game for longer than you know. So, you in? You gonna make what I want?"

A long pause trailed off the end of the bounty hunter's question, and Dex nervously stared down at the table as he waited for the ex-machinist's answer. A dawning sun upon the horizon, it appeared as if hope was starting to creep in as things were swaying in their favor and this man would be stupid to refuse what Niles had to offer.

[dantalion]

Off to one corner in the unnamed zone bar, sat four young men whose tattoos put them from the asteroid station New Kowloon, and the Sun Yee On triad. New Kowloon was in a wider orbit than Osiris, and their builds showed a leanness typical of limited gravity. They managed not to squint when the door swung open, letting in the intense morning rays of Bai Hu, so different than their experience in the Black Turtle viewed tiny through port windows. Through the open door walked a small, slender person of indeterminate gender dressed all in red. Ze couldn't be twenty, but ze moved with a smooth assurance unusual for zir age. The youngest of the Red Poles shot out a flash of jive with his left hand. The newcomer nodded, immediately got the bartender's attention, "Yī píng gāoliang jiǔ.", slapped down a folded credit, and took the proffered bottle of sinus-cleaner. Took a sweeping glance at the Wilder table situation, cracked the bottle, and poured for each of zir older brothers before pouring and tossing back zir own glass. Given the smell coming off the open bottle, ze took their liquor like a pro. 

[Ariel]

In the far corner of the bar was a gang, tattooed to the hilt and drinking as if they were the only group in the room. All not giving a care in the world about the existence of anyone else, except for one. As the bartering commenced between Niles and Dormeius, Dex couldn't help but to sense a blaring gaze being cast onto their table. Dex moved his gaze down at the table and then nonchalantly to the side to bring into view the pair of eyes from the corner in the bar that had taken note of his presence. A being dressed in crimson from the nape of their neck down to their feet stared in the direction of the Wilder table as swigs of a glass full of alcoholic content were taken, and Dex silently pondered which of the three of them that this blackout zone dweller was singling out to possibly strike a fight with.