It is said that ancient sailors used to pray to their gods before setting sail to bless them with a safe return. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This kind of blessing may seem to them to help them not break their masts when facing the waves of the ocean, and to avoid being attacked by ferocious marine predators, but in reality these are meaningless superstitions.

The only thing that can save humanity is humanity itself.

The reason why human beings are no longer afraid of the waves is not because of their devout beliefs, but from a steady stream of new technologies and new inventions, it is the nautical needle and the steam engine, and later the internal combustion engine, the reactor, and the suspension technology that make human beings regard the waves as flat ground, it is countless hard-working craftsmen who have studied how to build bigger and safer ships and put them into practice, it is the generations of seafarers who have passed on their experience, so that future generations will not repeat the same mistakes, and it is the efforts of human beings themselves that have finally made human beings overcome the sea and move towards the skyand the stars that came after them, rather than the blessings of the ethereal gods.

"So that's why you don't want to do a lighting ceremony?" Karl stared at me with an unkind expression, and I was almost certain that if I went on, he might have had a "loving" German bridge crossing with me. But I have reasons why I have to stick with it.

"Please, Carl, do you know how many people there are in this dockyard? Not to mention that my voyage was also broadcast live on major federal platforms. You think, if my family and our old classmates see me holding a ...... After the Quantum Coke bottle smashed into the ship and announced the departure of the Elephant, it was strange that they didn't take it as my lifelong joke. Maybe someone will say to their great-grandson more than 100 years later, 'Think of your great-grandfather's old classmate, your grandfather Steven, when he first sailed, he took a quantum cola bottle and smashed it on the battleship, and then took a cleaning rag and wiped the ball of cola before getting into the battleship...... Poofhahahaha, now that I think about it, I still have to laugh and bend my waist, 'This kind of thing happens, it can definitely be regarded as my social death!' Why take a Coke bottle! Wouldn't you just get a bottle of wine?"

"What's the solution, it's not because someone can get drunk and go crazy and set off lightning because they drink beer, and the crew usually doesn't give them a drink, so they don't bring a bottle. Anyway, your favorite Quantum Cola isn't, I think most of your drink supplies are made up of this. ”

"That doesn't mean I want to use it in formal settings! And why should I wipe it clean myself before I get on board? ”

"Why, you still want to leave that shiny stain of Coke on the hull of my precious Elephant? I'll tell you clearly, it's enough to give you face if you dare to go straight into the boat, I'll blast you out of the torpedo tubes and let you continue wiping. ”

I'm the person in charge of this mission, is that really the right thing to say to me?

Well, in the end, I still had no choice but to succumb to power and stand on this stage. (Humans are like bugs.) Alpha ............ What are you going to do? (Just kidding, Steven, aren't you quite fit for this kind of big scene, why are you stage frightened today.) ）

Because I probably didn't expect that there would be such a day, and as a federal military attaché, I would establish diplomatic relations with a hostile space exploration or something with a small frigate, which is really like a dream. I'm very worried. And there was some shame in that ceremony. (Then speak up, your worries and apprehensions, and your expectations)

Alas? (Isn't that what you've been looking forward to, as you've always told me.) Both humans and AI will have times of sorrow and hesitation, but instead of thinking too much, it is better to go on with feelings, and maybe you can go out of a different path. ）

…… Really, I've been enlightened by you again, Alpha, after all, I'm the same person as that Hamilton guy, it's hard to imagine what I would be like without you? (Anyway, come on, aren't we each other)

Thinking of this, I took a deep breath and began my speech in front of the audience and the recording camera.

"Standing here today, I'm actually very worried, what qualifications do I have to tell you anything? But I still have some things to say, and it's not necessarily my duty to say it, it's just my heart. This galaxy is very unfriendly to us, our ship's former compatriots are bound by blind obedience and barbarism, many aliens are hostile to all kinds of aliens who have not yet been understood, our mortal enemies are wreaking havoc in this galaxy, and even more, beyond this space, there are even more evil things that hide against our homes and people. So, can we only choose to destroy without thinking anything that we have not been exposed to or understood? Caution and caution must be remembered, but it is even more important for someone to take the first step and get to know each other. Just like humans and AI today, who would have thought that one day we would trust and rely on each other so inseparably? Just like me and my partner Alpha, I can proudly claim that meeting Alpha is the luckiest thing in my life. ”

"If we keep holding on to prejudices and never take the first step, we will never be able to progress. I could not have predicted the outcome of my voyage, and perhaps in the future I would call me the stupidest fool in the history of the Federation. But I confessed because I was willing to be the first one. Here, I would like to thank my two good friends, Captain Carl and Hamilton Navigator, and their partners, Sigma and Epsilon, without whom I would not have been able to talk about this voyage at all, and I would also like to thank the 200 crew members on the Elephant, the 400 brave Marines, the 8 Officers of the Strange Court, and the 89 AIs accompanying the ship, for choosing to go with me. Now, let's set sail, for tomorrow, and for the Commonwealth! ”

Then, I smashed the Coke bottle in my hand with a heavy blow, and used lightning to disassemble the Coke directly in the air, and then strode into the interior of the battleship.

The applause from outside the ship was still faintly visible, and on the bridge I was on, everything was over.

"And the captain?" "It's all over," Karl's deep voice said, "It's not a good thing, but thank you." ”

"So, Sigma, Hamilton, please." "Yes" and "oh" The immature child's voice and the lazy uncle's voice came at the same time.

"Faster-than-light engine starts, target, Zeda III!" The azure film of light wrapped around the hull, the engines roared, and the Incident officially embarked on its journey