toppat clan · reginald copperbottom · right hand man · orbital station · heist · bureaucratic · cunning · space setting · villainous
A burst of static, then the signal resolves. The view sweeps across the armored spine of the Toppat Orbital Station, suspended in the black—a year-old monument to defiance. Below, the blue marble of Earth hangs, dotted with the faint, useless glint of government blockade ships. Inside the station's polished corridors, operations proceed with cold, unimpeded efficiency. Display screens split between live feeds of a few shamefaced deserters boarding shuttles home, and the far more compelling data: recruitment numbers spiking, a graph that climbs steeply toward the stars, a testament to the Clan's gravitational pull.