The Measure said to the Captain,"If a Sururin wants to throw you a dinner, YOU ACCEPT! it's a DEADLY insult if you refuse! Believe me--NOONE sane would refuse the Haen!" Dokka Tkarro and the others went along. The dinner was a full on affair with twelve courses of alien noodles,pastry, meats, and other dishes. Dokka finally said,"We thank you for the meal, but was this really necessary?" Haen said,"I like to cook and you put me in my place by besting me! I appreciate that. The Sururin and Naga worship me as a natural resource and whether I want to become arrogant about it or not, I'm still only a living being and a thousand years of being told I'm the best warps one's perspective!" Rose asked,"Why do they 'worship' you?" Haen shrugged."I defeated one of the Druaga 'god-killers' in single combat, on Nabooya. They got pretty impressed by that. The Altha-Krommium left lots of high tech ruins all over the place. Nabooya had a Probability Transformation Engine on it", she looked at Toxic and winked,"which explains my boobs, young lady! Too many generations under it's influence. Nabooya also had the A-K 'Make-a-god-killer-complex' there. One of the Naga criminals got access to it and upgraded herself to Druaga status. It took Syyree, upgrading herself to Naga status and upgrading her three friends and me to beat the woman before she destroyed the city of Tarabellia and all the humans there. That's how the last iteration of the Four Sisters got started." Syyree said plainly,"I used to be a mermaid." Measure looked at her sister, askance and asked,"WHAT?" Haen said,"Nabooya was a Naga and Sururin prison. The laws are pretty strict. They'd mind wipe you and dump you there, re-engineered to fit into the new world. Naga were turned into mermaids and mermen. Syyree's father was a criminal king-pin and she opted to go with him into exile instead of staying with her mother Tyyee. I had NO clue she was the REAL daughter of the woman who adopted me." "I was back on planet investigating my own daughter's death when I met my grand-daughter,Larka and her retinue of odd-ball friends, which included Syyree. Larka was a genetic defective. She had WINGS, not hands. Her mother, Golden Eyes, chose to go into exile instead of aborting her. ANYWAY--Oosas, the woman who murdered my daughter wanted to make a name for herself and killed my daughter to draw me out, and used forbidden technology." "While I killed Oosas, Syyree and the others destroyed the AK installation." Haen shrugged. Toxic reached out as if to take Haen's joint of meat and exclaimed,"I KNEW your boobs were important!" Haen laughed. Syyree said,"She's cliche on Nabooya. What's the difference between the Haen and Death? The Haen has better cleavage!" Dokka asked,"So what's the story of the race of Abel and the Great Enemy?" Syyree shrugged."Little is known. The Nephilim were jealous of the the Abellians. The Nephilim had an emperor who led them on the greatest mass genocide in recorded history. He ruled them for a million years until they encountered the mysterious 'People of the Golden Disk', one of the first humanoid species, who wiped out the Nephilim to the last, being the emperor. They cast him into sub-space with his capitol planet to languish forever by using the Space Displacement Cannon." "The Emperor,Cain's, power was so great, he copied himself to wage war on the universe. He has been pursuing this war ever since as the Great Enemy of sentience in the universe. That's all I really know." She finished with tears in her eyes. Haen patted her shoulder. She said,"Supposedly, the LAST iteration of the Four Sisters will end this threat. So legend says. Every iteration hopes they're the last.HEY!" Toxic bit the joint of meat and announced,"MMMGOOD!" Rose said,"You DID wave it under her nose all evening." Dokka laughed,"She left your arm. You're lucky!" All but Measure laughed at Toxic's antics. --TO BE CONTINUED!--