It is always the coldest right before the

It is always the coldest right before the sun breaks the bleak eastern horizon. The lights from SpaceDock 1 were still visible but would be invisible soon. I remember when...

I used to live on SpaceDock 2 the people were much nicer. When I received an order to move to SpaceDock 1 I was disappointed because I had heard the community was always fighting

over petty disputes such as who captained the legendary Space Ship 'Galactivine' into cloud 9. None the less I settled into life on SpaceDock 1 and soon discovered

that we were all of us alike: criminals and outlaws for whom the universe had shrunk too small and the Galactic Police's reach too great. We trusted no-one, but mostly we despised

Suddenly it started raining and when this happened non-organics everywhere started turning into gold and diamonds.

"The rain of Midas! The leyends were true!" Laughed the Profesor Acheo Logye as the rain kept turning everything into gold and diamonds.

The composer Adrias Hatteras was writing a new work about it, with their permission. They got free tickets to see the opera onstage. Life was turning them into cultural snobs, the

last thing they would have expected from themselves, given their humble origins. Once just a jar of moonshine on the porch would have made them happy, but now they were only

satisfied with the lap of luxury. Two hundred year old scotch & Louis Vuitton slippers by a grand pool on a private island. That's why death by pink dancing elephants was fitting.