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Star Gypsy and King Rat were wasted again inside Vern's Happy Tavern. Too many Red Moons shoved down their throats while drowning themselves in gallons of cheap booze. They had been partying now for three nights straight with no reason to stop. They were the last of their gang, everyone else had been killed, fled off planet or were in max lock up. They were sure someone would come for them, whether it be the bastard badges or their enemies. You never knew which, living in the K.
Vern did keep the two bikers entertained though, plenty of women, good music and all the food they could keep down. So long as they kept paying, they were determined to live their last days as kings and not as their gang patch proclaimed - Dog Losers. King Rat especially didn't consider himself a loser. The gang took their name from an old saying that related to homeless vagrants that wandered from place to place with a dog as their only friend.
King Rat started the gang in his youth and through his leadership they became the most notorious motorbike gang on the planet. They had even began reaching out to the nearby systems to form chapters of their own, though now it seemed pointless as the Dog Losers days were numbered. The badges had gunned down Joe Lobo. Knucklehead Hector wrecked and died running from the badges. Silly and his brother Muddy were nearly beaten to death and hauled off to the pen. A dozen other brothers were missing and others just plain disappeared. He no longer called them brothers, those that ran. Star Gypsy wanted to track down all the cowards and try to weed out the traitor. No mercy, no second thoughts. As the ancient Terran saying went , snitches are a dying breed.
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