Martians, keep out!

In a gritty frontier town that has the look of a half‑finished city—gleaming ‘skylons’ standing over cracked glass façades—an uneasy truce between humans and the headless yet sentient Martians hangs by a thread. Scatterday, a scar‑marked agitator known as ‘the Liberator,’ and his companion Click‑Click, a sleek black‑armored being who records everything, arrive to confront a deep‑seated hatred that’s being fanned for political gain. Their presence turns the ordinary newsroom into a stage for a fierce debate about the rights of an alien species long deemed ‘bugs.’

As Scatterday pushes past angry locals and challenges the town’s proprietor, he must decide whether to aid the Martians even at the risk of being branded a traitor. The story captures the tension of a society poised between fear and sympathy, while the alien’s quiet intelligence hints at a world beyond human prejudice. Listeners are drawn into a tense, morally charged first act that questions what it means to be human when the ‘other’ looks very different.