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==Author: Lilias==

==The Creature:==
The Butcher of C Block was once a Human executioner, still wearing the outfit of the prison guards of the Callisto Penal Colony, with a black hood covering his head, and the chains he once used to trap inmates scraping as he drags them along.

==The Tale:==
Back on the Callisto Penal Colony, C Block was the home of the deranged, the insane, the worst of the worst, slated only for execution. When the revolt broke out after the disappearance of Earth, C Block saw the worst of the violence. 

When the execution wing was reached by the Free Fleet in their occupation and capture of the remnants of the penal colony, they found the bodies of four guards, seven prisoners, and no executioner. All eleven were killed in similar manner, strangled by a chain that didn't seem to be present in the chamber. The Free Fleet took little note of it, considering it simply part of the violent revolt their new livestock had recently completed. Some of the survivors of C Block knew better. 

The Butcher knew the crimes of all of Callisto's inhabitants, and the actions of the guards as they either failed to control the penal colony, or surrendered to the escaped convicts. The Butcher saw none of the remaining humans as being innocent; they were all guilty, and he was humanity's last executioner. When the remnants of the Callisto Penal Colony were subjected to the gruesome training of the Free Fleet that eventually formed Omega Company, some died from trying to show off, some died from tech they didn't understand, and some died in their bunks, necks choked with chain. 

Even now, generations later, the human descendants of criminals may hear something scraping as they traverse the stations and hallways of the Starmourn sector. Some may think it merely the sounds of machinery groaning, but the wise know better, and start walking faster. The Butcher has come, and the sins of our ancestors must be paid for.


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