Native Heart. Diego Martin Alphonse Dherzhinsky, DMAD to anyone who knows him, is an isolated Intersystem Alliance Intelligence Directorate operations asset. He kills key people of various species who make it difficult for the IA to function. This is the answer his brain gives him each day that he awakens along with a mission count until retirement. As far as he knows he is a good guy but he can't remember any family or previous missions. The missions are one thing but...family? Strap-in for the ride as DMAD embarks on his longest mission ever without support and discovers absolutes are fiction. The Relevance of Belief. Want the best cover ever? Open a hover car lot on a colony world, put on your totally synthetic clothes that match your smile and get your sales numbers up. It never hurts business to associate yourself with the most popular church in the neighborhood either. Enjoy the irony as Alfie and Sarah open a business while saving the world from an interstellar invasion.