Villains

"I believe your people had a phrase for moments like this, convert or die." Rushard was the only Castithan in the group of men standing around the Erep soldier. There were ten of them now, up from the five he'd set off with post carrier crash. It had been a day since the event the group now numbered two Sensoths and seven humans, all male though that was just coincidence not out of any desire to prevent females from joining. Rushard liked being the only Castithan, it felt right, just like when he lead Votans during the war. He liked being in charge and he liked not having to deal with someone from another caste trying to establish dominance through some bullshit play, they were on Earth now and castes were like everything else from their doomed galaxy, lost to the cosmos.

Rushard was physically not really remarkable at all, his white hair was cut short, his muscle build was lean, and if anything he was under sized for even his own race (he stood just over five feet tall). What he lacked in physical stand outness he made up for with visciousness. In the war he tortured and massacred, his military unit was known for their uncompromising nastyness, even amongst the Votanis Collective. When the ceasefire ended the war, Rushard was disgusted with the VC, he disbanded his unit and refused to report to Brazil as ordered, and so he made his way, first as a bandit, and now an ark hunter.

"I don't know what you people want." The Erep soldier had been granted him by Captain Grant of the crashed carrier, he had also given them a couple of bikes and supplies.  Officially it was to find Von Bach, but to Rushard it was the start of his new empire. Now the Erep soldier had outlived his usefulessness as he didn't have an EGO device and thus was not as genetically superior as the other Ark Hunters. The others also were not aware of it, but Rushard had also hijacked their EGO signals, so any attempt of theirs to overthrow him would be met swiftly and horribly, another thing against the Erep, he could not be controlled.

"Convert or die." It seemed simple to Rushard, though he was toying with the young man, trying to find out what Captain Grant knew about the Ark Hunters Rushard was leading, it appeared nothing from his interrogation of the Erep.

"Co co co convert?" The Erep's voice cracked in such a way that showed more of his weakness. Rushard turned toward one of the Sensoth's a burly eight foot tall  orange haired baboon of a man named Sorn. He drew his thumb across his neck and the Sensoth nodded. The Erep's scream right before his neck was broken was music to Rushard's ears. Rushard turned around to face his group of 9 men, they didn't look put off by the murder, which was why Rushard had chosen them to be with him.

"Boys they call this place Paradise and it will be, starting today we are going to run this town. Drugs, prostitution, even the damned ark hunting will be all ours for the taking." They all cheered at that and Rushard turned around and smiled to himself. It was always easy leading brutes and bullies, and they would serve his purpose just fine for now, but if any of them got out of line Sorn would be snapping more necks. Rushard accessed his EGO device, different from the other ark hunters in that his did not come from Von Bach, but he had been granted his by the VC during the war.

"Now Ego," Rushard thought calling up the Casti construct in front of his eyes, "Where did you say that warship went down again?"