Originally found in Transhuman: On the Edge of the Singularity, 2-2008 When a "god" arrives amid a group of "primitives" it's a big event. It's a bigger event when the god is really a member of a more advanced human civilization who was dropped in this forsaken place to prevent his finding how others have been exploiting the "primitives." But Alessandro Palermo survives and, with the help of a local woman, just might turn the tables on his would be assassins. Originally published in the Baen anthology Transhuman.