“Ninurta was the Annunaki god of war,” she recited over the shared Commtact link, “whose city was Lagash in ancient Babylon. His parents were Enlil and Ninlil, so he came from pretty tough stock.” Kane sighed as he heard this. The Cerberus warriors had suffered seemingly endless trouble from Enlil. Enlil was the cruelest of the Annunaki and had been reborn from the genetic material of Baron Cobalt, once Kane and Grant’s ultimate superior in the city of Cobaltville back when they had been Magistrates. The Cerberus rebels had rallied to turn back Enlil after he and his brethren, the royal family of the Annunaki, had reemerged on Earth with a plan to subjugate humanity. But Enlil had proved particularly tough—and had reappeared in the Middle East where he had attempted to regrow the organic spaceship, Tiamat, from a single seed. Eight months ago, in their most recent clash, Enlil had almost died after losing a leg during the fight. Where he was now, if he was indeed still alive, nobody knew.
