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Journal of Sikozu Shanu, documenting my infiltration of the Scarran base at Katratzi.

Our plan to rescue Scorpius had gone unnervingly well, but, at the last microt, Scorpius himself assaulted Crichton and prevented our escape.

The Scarrans placed us under guard as "guests" of the imperium. (Only Crichton's nuclear bomb prevented them from calling us "prisoners.") Crichton and the others were furious with Scorpius, but we soon learned that the Scarrans had secretly disabled D'Argo's ship, Lo'La, meaning that our escape would have failed. Scorpius had saved our lives.

Regardless, he suffered the brunt of the group's rancor. Perhaps his motives were simply too complicated for them to grasp. Scorpius had discovered that the Scarrans' crystherium flowers were the source of the ruling class' power — and the blooms were cultivated only on Katratzi. If we could destroy the crystherium matriarch plant, the Scarran ruling structure would crumble. We, meanwhile, could ride the Rabrokator (a powerful drilling elevator) through the planetoid to the surface, and escape to Moya.

Even after hearing this, Crichton obstinately insisted on exploring other options. He and Aeryn visited the Peacekeeper Command Carrier, only to learn that the Scarrans were ready to blow it up if it attempted to leave with Crichton aboard. D'Argo and Chiana inspected Lo'La, but to repair the Scarran tampering D'Argo had to initiate a full system restart — which meant that Lo'La would be useless for up to three arns.

I met again with Zukash, the Kalish station worker who, like me, was a member of the resistance movement against our Scarran oppressors. He agreed to steal the master key chip that would give us control of the Rabrokator.

Then, without warning, everything changed: Emperor Staleek's technicians disarmed Crichton's bomb. Our only protection was gone.

Scorpius' plan instantly became our only choice. Pursued by Scarrans, everyone fled to the Rabrokator. Zukash raced to meet us there, and he gave me the key chip just as the guards shot him.

His bravery made me proud to be what I am.

We took the elevator to the crystherium chamber. I worked to activate the Rabrokator's drill, and Chiana held the door. Everyone else followed Scorpius to the matriarch plant. Everyone, that is, except Rygel and Noranti — they hadn't made it to the elevator in time. Left behind, they exhibited surprising resourcefulness by searching for their former shipmate Stark. They suspected that Stark was on Katratzi because Scorpius had told us that a bioloid copy of the Banik had been pretending to torture him. The real Stark knew Katratzi's layout, and Rygel and Noranti hoped that he could guide them to an exit.

Just as I got the drill working, the Scarrans overrode the controls and the Rabrokator departed, nearly taking me and Chiana with it. We escaped to the crystherium chamber. There, Scorpius had been trying to destroy the matriarch plant, but it was well-shielded and all his attempts had failed.

Without the elevator, we were trapped in the chamber. Any microt the Scarrans would send a squad in to kill us. Even Scorpius was out of ideas.

That left me.

I could save us, but it would endanger the Kalish Resistance by revealing my true nature. It would risk my life. And what would Scorpius think of me when he realized that I wasn't who I had claimed to be — that I was actually a bioloid, a biosynthetic machine created specifically to slaughter Scarrans?

But I had no choice. As the Scarran squad arrived, I deployed my secret weapon: my body, which is designed to emit a radiation that targets the Scarrans' heat-producing glands. The effect kills them within seconds; unfortunately, its use renders me unconscious for much longer than that.

The rest of our escape I know of only from the others — our return to the Rabrokator, the wild ride as it drilled out of control towards the surface ... and the moment when Crichton set off the nuclear bomb.