"I've never seen one of them in person. They haven't come out from their territory since the blizzard. I have an acquaintance who says they attacked her starship when it was grounded by the weather. They fought a team sent there who were rescuing a stranded droid." The image Ben's gathering is of paranoid, battle-hardened scavengers, with no qualms about killing and less than picky about their targets, more like criminal gangs than a government.

"I thought they were raiding her ship to steal machine parts. If that's the case, I think her droid was in danger of being cannibalized, too." It might tear away some of the creatures' mystique to know what they are, though Ben knows they can bleed and die as well as the humans they hate. "What do these Fallen look like?"