Checkmate was never a planet meant to be lived on. It was more akin to a slaughterhouse meant to turn the dregs and slime of humanity into a meal for those living on more honoured planets. Something they could point and laugh at while inwardly wishing that they never step foot there. Palm is a dull eyed barkeep who spends his time sleeping and narrowly avoiding eviction, Checkmate is all he ever knew for his adult life and he desperately wishes some mystical power would bring him away to a life of luxury. But to the man who only ever cocooned himself in his own failing establishment he failed to realise that his world was changing, and violently so.