Hello,
I’m Marie Lennox and I am 28 years old. Many of you reading this book right now just might know me inside and out quite literally. Very few women who are bagged, tagged, and sold like I was make it out as early as I have, if they make it out at all. This is my story, this is my memoir. For those of you who are silencing your conscience by telling yourself “it can’t be as bad as she says it is, this is 5036.” You are absolutely wrong. I have no need for embellishing. Slavery is more widespread than the High Council wishes to believe and brushed under the table during dinner conversations. If my testimony before the Senate had been enough to stir the masses to action I would retire to my small, but humble home and begin a quiet, and for the first time in my life, leisurely lifestyle. God knows I’ve earned it. Unfortunately, it takes far more than a sob story to effect change. Long after this book is published I will continue to fight and will not stop until every last slave girl has been freed.
Many people perceive the “fringe territories” of the galaxy to be a small cluster of dusty deserts orbiting a scorching sun. To a certain extent, this perception is true. However, there are literally thousands of worlds beyond the reach of civilized men where slavery thrives on what I wish were an unimaginable scale. There are entire “slave planets” where women are bred, conditioned, and trained. There are Oasis planets with sprawling rivers, canyons, and plant life that make it easy for any carbon based life-form to thrive. There are also “dairy planets” where groups of humans are dumped, left to multiply, then “harvested” decades or even centuries later. I come from a dairy planet the G1alactic Atlas calls Altair. I used to call it home.