Nast’s last breath had wafted over his wife’s hands. His last words had been "I love you, Femm." His last act had been service towards freeing the enslaved, overrun and occupied Dipso from the choke of Kajerist tyranny and exploitation.

Nast and Femmer and their team of agents had been working among the Kajerists and Dipsons alike in an espionage circle meant to link the native Dipsons to Interworld help provided by the Liberators, sabotage as much of the Kajerist war machine on Dipso as possible, and build stockpiles of armaments and resources for the Dipsons. The Sivil Galaxi was too huge a place for the Liberators to swoop in and fight the battle for any world without support of the native populace. Researched calculations indicated that eighty-five percent of Dipso’s people supported liberation from the Kajerist Empire.

Dipso had joined that empire willingly, back at the start of the war in 62179 (?) when Kounsilhead Kethe Kajer declared that further attendance of Interworld Kounsil sessions indicated participation in and support of the new political organization grown from a scarcely understood alliance between the Blakkarrion Empire and Kajer’s world Shalhoon. Centrally located in the galaxy, Shalhoon hosted the Interworld Kounsil. No other world could have managed such a coupe or subverted the Interworld Kounsil towards Blakkarrion agenda. Dipso had joined the Interworld Kounsil only to gain protection from alien exploitation, and in the three thousand eight hundred-plus Interworld years since had developed no particular interest in spilling into the galaxy or prominence in Interworld affairs.