he bounty hunting career of Rex Spires started in the scrapheaps of the underhive. His freedom was delivered in the form of a nearby manufactorum explosion tearing through the hive dome. Three days later he crawled from the rubble, granted clarity from the experience. Now he fashions crude explosives, trying to recapture the feeling and making a living hiring himself out.

As a child, Estus Jet was the only survivor of a Ratskin ambush. The only clue to her identity was a tarnished collar, reading _EST SU_JE_T. She was taken in by the Deep 9 Orphanarium, and taught harsh lessons in