Universe

You begin to walk from the woods back to your destroyed vehicle. There's a good possibility that you'll be able to at least salvage a few things from the wreckage. Your holomap would be a nice save, as would some of your provisions.

As you step out through the trees into the clearing where you crashed, you find that barely any remains of your cruiser still exist. The biggest remnant is a large area of scorched earth but besides that you really just see a few burnt scraps. You check around at your feet and then hear a clicking sound next to your head.

You turn your gaze to the right and come face-to-face with one of the blue-bandana wearing gunmen from before. He is a Slabreth, a humanoid being with blue skin and two tusks that while covered under the skin, still make his cheeks jut out from the sides like rounded points. He has very small, beady yellow eyes and thick whiskers around his small mouth. He grins at you with a mouthful of sharp little teeth and continues to hold his gun at the side of your head.

"What's yer name?" he asks and now you see his buddy, also a Slabreth, approaching.

You tell him and he chuckles when you add the title of Universal Ranger to the end of it.

"Well, yer a ranger now are ya? Well lucky fer me, we live on a planet where your kind doesn't much tread. What, did they send you on some kind of pioneering mission? Heh, fool human."

"No, I'm here to try and put an end to the oppressive slavery which has been happening here for the past hundred years." You say this with a noble air of confidence, knowing that this alien probably won't just straight out kill a ranger. No matter how much freedom he felt he had..

The Slabreth continues to keep his gun at your temple and speaks again. "Well, I suppose we'll see how much success you have with that. But fer now, I think yer gonna come with me and my friend here. Maybe you'll be able to see how you like being a slave firsthand."

His friend then steps up to you and sprays a substance in your face, Voxin you presume, which immediately causes you to pass out. The last image you remember seeing before you black out is the armed Slabreth pointing and laughing at your weakened state.

***

When you come to, you find that you're in an outdoor cage. There are about twenty Chikari in here with you and every one of them looks malnourished and feeble. The Chikari are a native race to Chista and have a long history of oppression. They are a small people, with skin as dark as coal and long, black mops of hair. To an outsider, they may seem like an intimidating species but one would find that they are most certainly capable of friendly interaction. Before they were taken as slaves, they lived in their own villages and tribes, and all evidence shows that they were perfectly peaceful.

But now here they are, trapped in the same muddy cage as you are. These are probably either the ones who were just captured or the ones who are too weak to work anymore. Many of them gaze at you with sad eyes, as if hoping for you to provide any insight as to their salvation.

Well, you ARE a Universal Ranger. What should you do?
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