Bilal landed his pod in one of the private docks that went mostly unused. It had once held the dead bodies of humans that had died aboard the Mothership, either because the virus had progressed too far for the cure to be effective, or because of the civil unrest that had arisen among the humans that had wanted to be returned to earth and had been denied their demands.

That was a bitter time in their history and although the Centaurians now knew how to subdue those that lost ...