Your name is <span class="mu-s">Hass Takar</span> and you are stepping onto the steel corridors of a Consortium ship. The air, devoid of the comfortable humid, low air of a Jaxtian ship, is ever so slightly warmer and more arid. You find this whole situation very contrived. When could you ever end up on a ship wearing nothing but your underwear, with no backup, armed with only a knife?

You see your opponents now. Similarly nude, two <span class="mu-i">Leraay</span> crewmen, the cat-like species that make up the majority population of the Consortium, notice you a second later, approaching with knives drawn. It was once that those of your line, a noble family, would be experienced in Knife Dueling out of tradition. Now, it is more common among those of military aspiration. The once touted techniques and ritual have been phased out for a more standardized and clinical approach; you were fortunate enough to live through both eras, being born at the perfect time to witness the change from the current Supreme Ruler's choice regarding your race's long and noble traditions being put down in exchange for humility and egalitarian teaching. The “Eoba's Instep” and “Akule's Standing Execution” have been renamed to more practical things. The drawcut, the underhanded stab, the jugular cut-

But enough about that. It's time to put the techniques to use. You'll need them for a two on one encounter.