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I am not the owner of the persons of this story met with in the movie and I never will be, I am not making any money whatsoever from this little story and I will never expect to do it either. If anyone feel like building further stories on persons, localities and events here created then they can feel free to do it – provided only that they try to stay in the given pre-histories, given personalities etc., and keep from turning their stories into adult stories. R&R are welcome.

Prologue

Vytautas Iniskius was born in the city of Philadelphia PA, USA. By background he was lithauian and proud of it, but even more important to him was his faith, he was a most devout Catholic Christian. He had married his sweetheart since childhood, Ewa, and they shared faith, background, interest for and career in the culinary art, they had worked as cooks at a canteen belonging to a RDA subsidiary. They had lived a frugal but happy life, they had three children who all ended up in good jobs. But good education doesn't come free so to pay down tuition mortgages for their offspring they took a ten year appointment to the mining station at Pandora, ExtraSolar Colony 1, popularly called "Hell's Gate". The good Christian couple couldn't really like that nickname but they were not its makers so they didn't make too much fuss about it.

Born and raised as devout catholic Christians, they were appalled by the inhumane attitude of the RDA soldiers towards the Pandoran nature including its inhabitants. What the soldiers saw as an ever threatening danger from wildlife, atmosphere and hostile natives, they saw a splendid work of creation by the Good Lord, may be at the 8th day of Creation, why not? That it was possible to transfer minds into avatars and back was to them a proof that Na'vi people were sentient beings not meant by Our Father to be eradicated or exploited unto extinction but brought the True Light of the Great White Flock.

So one day when a maintenance worker forgot his master key card at his dinner table, Vytautas copied it before handing it back. It might come useful some day.

That day came when the soldiers and most of the civilians at Hell's Gate had gone to torch the Tree of Souls. Apart from Max and the avatar drivers very few had been left behind, Quaritch distrusted the avatar drivers so he locked them into their quarters. Vytautas and his wife were left behind too, to make a victory celebration dinner in the evening.

Vytautas found Max sitting depressed at the breakfast table after the attackers had left. Some inner voice spoke to him: "This man can make far better and more righteous use of that keycard copy you took than you can, Vytautas!" He let his conscience have its day, he gave Max the key card copy he had. Max then hurriedly ran to the avatar barrack, unlocked the door in and roused the avatar drivers. They unlocked the avatar link room and moved into their extra bodies. Then they hurried to the armoury which Max opened with his key card. Max and the avatars then ran to the computer mainframe room, the technician they meet there was swiftly knocked out. While now Max took place in front of the keyboard the armed avatars took up position at each of the three doors into the Command & Control Centre tower.

Inside there Selfridge was watching ever more revealing signs at his communication systems that the attack in the Hallelujah Mountains didn't quite play out as Quaritch had promised. Then it was that Max typed in a command to unlock all locked doors, a click and the doors were open. The avatars then burst into the large hall where the top brass at Hell's Gate not in the assault party was assembled with a small handful of body guards. Everyone were commanded down at the floor with hands behind necks. Only one shot was fired, when a techie tried to reach for a keyboard he got a bullet in his arm.

For their vital contribution the couple was allowed to stay on at Pandora, with Max' guarantee. Vytautas kept on as cook to the reduced staff while Ewa took over as housekeeper.

At the afternoon the next day the RDA troopers and techies were marched on board a space ferry called down from the ISV hovering up there, some of them at stretchers. A joyful celebration broke out at once the sound of the leaving space ferry had died down. Max sent out a message to Earth that the moon of Pandora now was sovereign territory and was meant to remain so for ever, and woe to anyone intending to disturb the peace of the land! ISVs on their way could choose whether they wanted to land and offload their cargo to be traded for with some mineral. Miners, techies and administrators were declared persona non grata, and avatars with their drivers would be interviewed to find out if they were to be offered their chance. Last but not least, in the appendix to the message was shown documents explaining why these restrictions were imposed: Videologs detailing events, faximiles of logbooks and documents chronicling the events, air and satellite photographs showing what had been going on. Lastly a speech by Mo'at enjoining humans to leave this spot in the sky alone, and people at Hell's Gate saying their goodbye with family back home.

The day after the eviction celebrations carried on with a more formal event for the participating chieftains and their heroes in the battle including the avatars, lots of inter-clan diplomacy was carried out, the Omatikaya clan cook put his culinary abilities in high gear and an important item in that celebration was Jake's final "body switch". Second day after the eviction celebrations continued in all the local hometrees, also at Hell's Gate. Part of the celebration at the base that day was the official renaming of the base to "Augustine Research Station".

At the end of that day a spoonful of serious thinking was added for the avatars and their human supporters. Jake and Neytiri held a speech detailing the future of humanity at Pandora: A strict deadline, six years – i.e. until the departure of the last ISV spaceship sent from Earth before the eviction, was set when research projects would have to be terminated and the avatar drivers would have to make their choice between pink skin or blue skin, there would be demands to respect for nature and people, and the demands to loyality and assistance against renewed RDA intrusions also in the coming time were clearly stated.

They were clearly explained that life at Pandora after that date would be very, very different from what they were used to at Earth or even in the Augustine Research Station: No comfortable amenities, no elegant garment, no exciting entertainment the sort they were used to at Earth, no industry who could produce things for them, no shops where they could go to acquire things, no money for what they did… They had those six years to think if they really wanted such a life, it would be a clean life much more like humans were biologically meant for than current life at Earth – but such a romance with the environment would wear thin sooner or later. After that date no more ISVs were to be expected and the base would slowly but inexorably revert to the jungle. Any ISV arriving after that date should be regarded with suspicion.