Octane

[Light Rises]

Bespin Man zombie, Octane to blame?

It was the headline on at least one of the news articles that Detective Chet Manley had seen that week. He shook his head and ran a hand through his hair. What he was looking at here was a double homicide? Or a murder-suicide. The one issue, was that someone had lost their face. He shook his head again and sighed.

“So, what do you make of this?” He asked one of the other detectives.

“From what we’re hearing its that Octane drug. Don’t know the first thing about it, aside from it may have come from Hutt Space? Some form of spice.” His partner shrugged. The Bothan looked at the near human, the man from the Rim who became a Core detective. “I can put out some feelers, see what stones we can turn over.”

Manley nodded. “Lets do that, see if we can’t get a blood work up on both the bodies.” He pointed at both of them and removed his gloves. “Lets chase this down.”

Bespin Man…

 

[Light Rises]

Were these reports true? The Duros investigator wasn’t sure. The tales of Bespin Man were hitting the Outer Rim, but it helped that the Duros knew a few of the Judges. And that meant a lot of spacer tales. But a tale of a human man eating the face off another human man? That was unheard of, wasn’t it? The Duros shook his head as he looked over the paperwork.

Images had come through from Bespin, dark holonet and all, a man’s face eaten off, and the perp at large still. The reports mentioned something of a drug being heard in the area that cuased this. There were a few other reports, but none like this one. This was complete face removal. The Duros sipped his cup of caf and leaned his head into his hands.

On the other monitor were images from out in the Silken Asteroids. Far from Bespin.

Was this a seriel face eater, or the result of a drug?

He looked back to the other report.

Bespin man…