[The space crew aboard the Bronze Age learned that as the battleships that survived the doomsday battle, they had become heroes of mankind, and the entire earth was looking forward to their return. The Fleet Command announced that all officers and soldiers on the Bronze Age
Collectively awarded the highest medal of honor.]
[The Bronze Age returned immediately. At this time, it was located in space 2,300 astronomical units from the sun. It had already exceeded the Kuiper Belt, but was still very far away from the Oort Cloud. Since it was already close to the maximum speed, deceleration consumed a lot of money.
Fusion fuel could only reach a low speed in the direction of the solar system, and the voyage home took eleven years.]
[A small white dot appeared in front of the Bronze Age, and it quickly became clear that this was the Gravity battleship that greeted the Bronze Age.]
[After the formation sailed for a day, the Bronze Age entered geosynchronous orbit under the escort of Gravity and slowly docked into the space port.]
[The fleet headquarters asked them not to stay on the ship for duty. Soon, a colonel led a replacement duty team to board the ship. 】
[The people on the Bronze Age began to leave the ship. All the officers and soldiers walked through a long passage and entered the air zone, and their eyes suddenly opened up. 】
[At the colonel’s request, the captain began to roll the roll. The colonel insisted and called the roll twice to confirm that everyone on the ship was here.]
"The big purge has begun."
Strange closed his eyes, not wanting to watch the next scene that would make him feel sick to his stomach.
["Now declare: You have all been expelled from the military and no longer belong to the Solar System Fleet, but the shame you have brought to the fleet can never be erased! You cannot be reunited with your relatives now, and they do not want to see you. Your
Your parents are ashamed of you, and most of your spouses have left you. Although society does not discriminate against your children, they have grown up in shame for more than ten years, and they hate you! You have been handed over to Fleet International
judicial system.”]
[Several beams of searchlights shot back and forth, illuminating the large number of armed military police surrounding them. They were distributed in the surrounding square and on the steps in the distance. All the muzzles of their guns were pointed here. Someone looked back and saw that those around the Bronze Age
The bouquet is real. Among the floating flowers, their battleship looks like a huge coffin waiting for burial.】
[A cold voice shouted to them from somewhere: "All those who are carrying weapons, please hand over their weapons! Please cooperate, otherwise your life safety cannot be guaranteed. From now on, all of you will be charged with first-degree murder and
Arrested for crimes against humanity!”]
Just as Strange expected, he wasn't the only one who felt sick to his stomach.
The source of this nauseating feeling is not a disgusting picture, but a source of inner shock.
Really, disgusting.
"They are heroes for the continuation of human civilization!"
"But to the people on Earth, they are just a group of deserters, especially after launching the Dark War. Space and Earth have different moral standards. Forget it, let's go on. I don't want to continue discussing this issue. My heart
tired."
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[During the month-long trial that followed, a clearer story emerged.]
[Their minds changed after they realized they could never go back.]
【The change time is only five minutes.】
[Five minutes later, 94 percent of the people agreed to the attack.]
[They used infrasonic hydrogen bombs to kill everyone on the Quantum and built tombstones for them, but there were no remains in the tombstones. All the remains were sent to the food depot as a food supplement on the ship. ]
[They felt that this was a natural thing at the time. An officer named Lowinsky was responsible for the logistics of the entire ship and directed the storage and distribution of remains. 】
[Lovinsky told the judge that the remains were eaten normally, mostly mixed with vegetables and meat from the ecological cycle and cooked. The eaters were all the people on the Bronze Age ship. Although some people were still not used to it,
There wasn’t any big reaction.】
[During the period, Lowinsky told a short story: Once when he was dining in the officers' mess, he heard an officer next to him say: Thank you, Joyner. Lieutenant Karl Joyner was on board the Quantum.
Communications officer, what he eats seems to be a part of her. Everyone has an identification unit, which is as big as a grain of rice. It is implanted in the left arm and can withstand high temperatures. Occasionally, the thing is not taken out when cooking. The eater is on the plate.
When you find it, you can use a portable communicator or something to read out the information above.】
[Faced with the judge’s accusations, accusing them of actions that had broken the bottom line of human morality, Lowinsky said something calmly but with great difficulty. 】
["There was another moral bottom line at the time. When the Bronze Age was accelerating at super power during the Doomsday Battle, the power system was overloaded, causing the ship's ecological cycle system to lose power for nearly two hours. The system was severely damaged and difficult to recover; and the hibernation system
It also broke down and could only accommodate more than 500 people at the time."
["In that case, there were still more than a thousand people to eat. If there were no additional supplies at that time, many people would starve to death. Even without the above situation, considering the long voyage in the future, so many precious protein resources
To abandon it in space without using it is to break the moral bottom line..."]
[The captain of the Bronze Age, Neil Scott, made his final statement in court.]
[“I don’t have much to say, only one warning: life’s arrival from the ocean to land is a milestone in the evolution of life on earth, but those fish that landed on land are no longer fish; similarly, those who actually enter space are no longer
So, people, when you plan to fly to outer space and never look back, please be very careful. The price you have to pay is much greater than you think."]
[The final verdict was: Captain Neil Scott and six other senior officers were sentenced to life imprisonment for committing crimes against humanity and murder; only 138 of the remaining 1,768 people on the Bronze Age were acquitted.
The rest were sentenced, with terms ranging from twenty to three hundred years.]
[Before being sent to serve their sentences, more than a dozen officers from the Bronze Age were escorted to the Bronze Age, and the warship still had to hand over some details.]
[Sneider, the target screening officer of the Bronze Age, looked at the warship they had lived in for more than ten years. Because they had to sneak in the darkness of space, they tried their best to make the Bronze Age feel like a home. ]
[In the past ten years, this place was their entire world. They carefully set up holographic images of grasslands, forests and coasts everywhere, cultivated real flowers and plants, and built fountains and fish ponds, making this place truly a
What a home looks like.]
[Now, all that no longer exists, the traces of the past have been completely erased, and the Bronze Age has turned into a cold interstellar battleship again. 】
[Sneider was taken to a spherical cabin and explained some technical details of the target identification system to three officers.]
[An hour passed and the problem was solved.]
[Sneider clicked a few times on the operating interface in mid-air, and seemed to habitually close the operating window before leaving.]
[Then he suddenly kicked the bulkhead and flew to the other end of the spherical cabin in weightlessness. ]
[Almost at the same time, the spherical cabin was divided into two. Three officers and a military policeman were locked in one cabin, and Snyder was alone in the other cabin. 】
[Sneider brought up an operation interface in front of him and clicked at a dizzying speed. It was a communication interface. He was activating the high-power ultra-long-range interstellar communication system of the Bronze Age! 】
【"laugh!"】
[A burning sound sounded, a small hole was burned out of the bulkhead by the laser gun, and the two spherical cabins were filled with billowing white smoke.]