“those goddamn jackheel’d bastards” is a REALLY satisfying curse. It’s full of nice, hard consonants. Try it out yourself…

This is a flashback to the history of the station. I like to stick with one word titles, but I couldn’t find any better way to get this across than to put it in the title.

Axes seem to have become the weapon of choice for this story (thanks muchly to the brilliance of DoItForScience), but Johan is definitely wielding a read emergency axe of the break-in-case-of-emergency kind.

I really like the way this series is progressing!

And yes, that curse is full of plosives and/or voiced consonants. The only devoiced sibilant (to wit, the /s/ sound) occurs in the last word; the “s” in “those” is a /z/ while the terminal “s” in the final word acquires a voicing due to the preceding “d”, and the “ds” becomes an affricate: /d͡z/.