This is effectively a satellite story to Rumours of Death, although it occurs eighteen months before it, and two and a half years before the start of the TV series. If you haven't already, I strongly recommend reading Rumours of Death first (you can find it here, in this series) because otherwise you're going to be wondering who on earth these people are and why this is labelled as a Battle of the Planets AU fanfic :-)

Contains some very mild swearing.

Thanks to my husband for beta-reading.