title: Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, No. 1)
author:  Alan Burt Akers 
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  Scorpio Triumph
  
  Alan Burt Akers
  
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  Dray Prescot
  
  The picture we have of Dray Prescot, as painted by himself in his narrative
  and by one who has seen him on Earth, is at once enigmatic and intriguing. He
  is a compelling figure, dynamic, dominating, demanding, yet there is in him
  that odd vulnerability. He is a man over middle height, with brown hair and
  level brown eyes, with enormously broad shoulders and powerful physique. There
  is an aura about him of abrasive honesty and indomitable courage. He moves
  like a savage hunting cat, quiet and lethal, sudden. Reared in the harsh
  conditions of Nelson’s navy, he has been transported to the exotic and
  barbaric, beautiful and cruel world of Kregen, four hundred light years from
  Earth, under the double star Antares, the twin Suns of Scorpio.
  
  Paz, the hemisphere of Kregen where Prescot has adventured and succeeded, is
  threatened by the reiving Shanks from Schan, the other half of the p