Setting: Immediately after Confronting the Past
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Looking out from his ship at the great green orb that is Myrkr, Kach could see plumes of smoke rising from the devastated encampments that scattered the globe. Proof that the men under his command had done their jobs well.

He hadn't liked what he'd been ordered to do, but he'd done it. He had followed orders, he'd passed their test.

It was hard to think about what he'd just done. About the friends of his that might have been killed by the guns under his command, of all the people that simply had been in the way and thus suffered the Empires brutality. He couldn't get his mind off of it.

Right now, he really wanted a drink.

It had been years since he'd touched the stuff, he'd quit a while back, but now he was really damning the rules against alcohol on ships. But perhaps... The food processors on his own ship didn't have any of the programming governors that the Imperial processors had. He might be able to whip something up down there.

Turning towards the turbolift, he began to walk. At first lazily, but gradually picking up speed as if eager for something he was trying to keep a secret from everyone else, which really wasn't so far from the truth.

Stepping into the hanger, he could see the massive, shadow like form of his ship for a few instants before the motion detectors switched the lights on. Smirking slightly, he began walking up the boarding ramp...
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Years ago, long after he had gave up drinking, Kach had flown through a freak Solar Flare while running spice. While most of the ship was unharmed, the energy shields around the living module had been below strength, allowing a stray electromagnetic wave to hit his food processors and subtly alter his programming. He had quickly realized what had happened the first time he tried to make a meal and he reprogrammed all the altered formulas and recipes he found, but since he had quit drinking he had never found the glitch with his Ethanol. The new formula was now closer to LSD than alcohol and as a result, instead of forgetting his past, he relived it.

"Damn it Kach, give me the Hydrospanner!" Kach's boss, Ganz, shouted at him.

"I told you Ganz, there aren't any Hydro spanners in the damn toolbox!"

"There's got to be. I put one in there yesterday and I could have swore there were at least two others in there as well."

"Well, they've been stolen then, because they aren't there."

"Damn it," the fat man swore as he heaved off his perch in the belly of the light freighter he was working on. For a few moments hi shuffled through the toolbox. Then, evidently satisfied that Kach was being honest, the rage that had covered his face only moments before disappeared.

"Well I'll be damned," Ganz said with an almost unnoticeable smile. "They ain't there."

Well of course they aren't, Kach thought to himself. They left this hellhole with me yesterday after work.

"I told you," he said, walking back to the XP-38 land speeder he had been working on.

Just two more days, he thought to himself, just two more days...

As usual, Jesh was waiting for him when he left, sitting in the shade outside the speeder garages door created by a pair of garbage pails. He stood up at the sight of Kach, he had left work half an hour early.

"Don't you have anything better to do than sit around and wait for me to be done?" he asked, not really expecting an answer.

"No, not really. Not since Mariss left me."

"And of course you're trying to replace her with me," he joked. He made a gesture to his chest, where a pair of breasts would be if he was a woman. "But Jesh, I gotta tell you I just ain't equipped for that."

That made both of them smile before Kach began to frown.

"I'm tired of this planet. As long as I'm here I'm going nowhere. As long as I'm here I've got nothing. As long as I'm here I'm nobody. I want to be somebody Jesh. We've got to get out of here."

"Oh," he replied sarcasticly, "I suppose you've forgotten that we're going to be leaving in two days?"

"Forget it," he said, stopping.

Jesh walked another two steps and then turned around in shock.

"I though you hated this place?"

"I do. That's why we're going today."