What can I tell you about Harkers? They work in pairs- usually a biologist and a mechanic. One cultivates the angels so that the other can exploit their biological features for use in their ramshod contraptions. I’ve seen a sword cut with the broken edge of a halo. I’ve seen dune rigs use angel tears for fuel. Why- once I saw someone pull a gun that contained a cordfrog so with venom so volatile that the projectile combusted the second he pulled the trigger. It took off his entire arm, but it also killed roughly two dozen scavengers in one blinding blast.

Our society teems with this technology. Dangerous, illegal, and untested. But the sad truth is that without the Harker’s illegal inventions, society wouldn’t function at all.

-Excerpt from Small Engine Repair, Volume 12 by Skome Clark