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    With the entire population of Vitrol Minor slaughtered, the High Council would require massive bribes to buy their innocence.
    But buy it they did.
    Slowly evidence came to light showing that Azmael had himself employed the Seedle warriors to destroy the populace of Vitrol Minor. His motive was supposedly to gain the mineral rights of the planet. The fact there wasn't a useful gram of any known mineral to be found on the planet seemed to disturb no-one.
    Except Azmael, of course.
    He was very angry. He knew the High Council would wriggle out of the charges. In fact, he was so angry they could escape judgement that he took a laser rifle and gunned them down in their own council chamber.
    It saddened Azmael that he had been forced to adopt the ultimate sanction, but at the end of the day it is sometimes the only method to deal with corrupt politicians.
    To some people this is known as revolution. To others it must always remain murder. Poor Azmael was so disgusted with what he had been forced to do that he publicly declared himself an outcast and departed from Gallifrey.
    The new High Council, who were just as cynical as the old one, but less corrupt, declared Azmael a hero. After all he had done them a favour. They had been waiting many regenerations for their chance of power. He had made it possible. But the first act of the new council was to set up a committee to learn how Azmael had so easily entered the Council Chamber with a laser rifle. Although they had approved of his magnificent cleansing of a corruption, they weren't over-keen that he, or any other fanatic, should succeed so easily again.
    After many years of travel, Azmael arrived at a planet called Jaconda. To him it was the most beautiful place he had ever seen.
    It was green and its handsome birdlike inhabitants enjoyed an easy carefree way of life which he readily adopted. Likewise, the Jacondans accepted him and soon he was their elected President.
    But the fairy tale didn't last.
    Lurking in the history of Jaconda was a legendary race of gastropods known as Sectoms. These were not the small, aggravating creatures of the domestic garden, but slugs the size of men who were capable of devouring forests, destroying meadows and reducing to desert once fertile land. Not only did they support a massive appetite, but also a brain and cunning equal to any intelligence in the universe.
    Where these creatures had come from was a mystery. Why they had come to Jaconda and conquered the planet, only to disappear again, was another conundrum. As the legends and myths grew about the Sectoms, people began to wonder whether they had ever existed.
    That was a mistake ...
    One night, not long after Azmael had become President, a terrible thunder storm had occurred. The rain had poured down destroying the harvest, while the lightning, much like a Seedle warrior, had attacked anything that took its fancy.
    Deep in an ancient forest, a huge beautiful mustock tree had become one of its victims. In life, the tree had been positioned precariously on the edge of a steep bank and its sudden, violent demise had sent it crashing down the slope in such a way that its thick, stubby branches had ripped open the surface of the ground to reveal hundreds of round leathery objects.
    The rain had continued to batter the scarred soil, at the same time washing, caressing, cleansing the rubber shapes. When the rain stopped, the Jacondan sun took over and gently warmed the spheres. A few days later, strange noises could be heard from within the shells. The objects were eggs. And they were about to hatch!
    It was some months before Jaconda knew of its fate. One morning it awoke to find an army of gastropods led by a hideous shape calling himself Mestor the Magnificent. Jacondan weapons had proved ineffectual against their slimy targets, so to save life Azmael had ordered his adopted people to