RatchmanChapter 6 - "The Lizard King"
Conn Teel, the eldest surviving oligarch, meets with his faithful major domo, Legat Chandra. Born on Earth before it became a poisonous husk, he has had two millennia to hone his tyranny, refining cruelty to an artform. Aside from some casual torture he hands out with his usual disdain, he has a meeting scheduled with the nihilistic bounty-hunter Mira Candor.
