Chapter Eighty-Five: Greetings from the Galaxy
Kara 24480 A.D., c. 15428 A.D. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Kara civilization won the first interstellar war, successfully destroying another higher civilization, the galaxy where the Earth civilization is located, and destroying most of the space forces of the Earth civilization.
For this war, the Kara civilization paid a terrible price, with nearly half of the Galactic Expeditionary Force destroyed in the battle or the faster-than-light impact of the final escape of the Earth civilization, and many of the remaining spaceships also needed to be repaired.
After reasonable calculations, the Kara civilization allowed some of the spaceships that had lost the ability to pursue to return to the solar system, and the remaining nearly half of the galactic expeditionary force continued to embark on the journey to complete the battle between them and the earth civilization that had not yet been completely completed.
In the eyes of the people of Kara, the earth civilization is a very mysterious alien civilization, especially after the Kara civilization began to tend to the militaristic social system in recent centuries, the earth civilization has become the "great enemy" that the Kara civilization faces all the time.
This mysterious civilization, which was plundered by its own civilization and developed into a higher civilization in a short period of time, has always been a problem for sociologists and politicians of the Kara civilization.
Just as in the history of the earth, a country that is absolutely strong in international status is afraid of another country that is rapidly developing on the other side of the world.
However, now, this civilization has been defeated by its own civilization, and although it has not yet achieved complete victory, the other side is already at the end of the crossbow, which is good news for any Kara who is on the side of Kara.
As for the small group of Kara people who inherited the "intellect and morality" of the previous era, they can only sigh powerlessly about this result.
What can they do? In addition to voting on the anti-war questionnaire, can they defect in civilization for the sake of another civilization that is hostile to their mother civilization?
Quite a few Kara people who stood on the moral high ground condemned this victory, but for the entire Kara civilization, it was simply insignificant.
The Galactic Expeditionary Force is only one-third of the military strength of the Kara civilization, and the real large army is still left in the solar system, for the Kara civilization, which has already suffered the destruction of its homeland, protecting its homeland is the first principle of the entire civilization.
However, even in the history of Earth civilization, it is very rare for any country to send one-third of its military strength to fight a war on the territory of another country.
The victory of the war is undoubtedly the most celebratory event that has occurred in the Kara civilization in recent centuries, and this time it is not a battle between one political body and another within a civilization, but a battle magnified to the cosmic scale, where one civilization defeats another.
And this civilization is not indigenous, but a hegemonic civilization like itself.
There is nothing more to celebrate, every Kara soldier who needs to return for maintenance has become a hero of civilization, and the current Kara government has put them in a very high position because of the need to emphasize the "correctness" of this war, and has shifted the public's attention from thinking about the "correctness of war" to praising the "honor of civilization".
This has also made the entire Kara civilization immersed in the joy of victory for a period of time.
Today, the anniversary of the 1000 carat-hour of the "Victory of the Gliese", civilization is in revelry.
However, no matter how much the whole civilization is plunged into a carnival, there are some people who can never leave their posts.
This is the outskirts of Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and the listening post of Outpost 10196 of the Kara civilization.
On the borders of the galaxy, there will always be a number of border warriors left to guard them.
Besimos is a rank-ranked soldier in the Kara civilization and a listener at Outpost 10196.
His job is to constantly measure the gravitational and electromagnetic wave signals inside and outside the solar system in a lonely space listening station, in order to prevent the leakage of information within civilization or the detection of external invasion of some information in advance.
Some time ago, many of the probes that Noah sent to the solar system were discovered and destroyed in advance by such a "listening system".
While this is defending one's own civilization, it certainly won't be a very popular job, as it requires the listener to remain alone in space all the time, sometimes for hundreds of carat-hours, sometimes thousands.
Wandering alone in the icy and dark Kuiper Belt is an experience that no one wants to experience. And this job is also the "bad luck" that all Kara soldiers avoid, only soldiers who fail the army test or make some big mistakes will be sent to this job for "facing the wall".
Besimos is an exception, he applied for the job on his own initiative, he is an extremely withdrawn person, and his interaction with others makes him frightened, and only in such a lonely and cold space can he feel relaxed.
He likes it here, he always likes to be alone looking at the space outside the ecological window, the yellow vertical pupils flickering lonely in space, and sometimes he looks at the meteorite comets in the Oort Nebula with the help of a telescope, imagining that they are all parts of his body, moving under his command.
He was very happy every time a comet passed by in the trajectory he had expected.
In this dark and cold space, a person is performing his own interpretation.
Sometimes, on a whim, he would use a telescope to observe the Oort Nebula in the distance, following the bright trails of its bright trails, waving his four arms in the air to trace the comet's passing trail.
Every time he got into the groove, he would keep swinging, no biomass, no carbohydrates, until his body was so weak that he could no longer swing and completely collapse, and for a long time afterward, he would fall into some kind of strange pleasure.
Because at that time, he would feel like he was conducting a huge and magnificent cosmic movement.
He was perhaps the only one of the tens of thousands of Kara soldiers involved in the job who was satisfied with the job.
But today, instead of looking out through the window of the ecology at the occasional meteorite or staring at the undulating waveform images on the surveillance system, he didn't do as usual.
Even for a person like him who is withdrawn, he has someone to keep in touch with, and that is his biological brother.
His younger brother, who joined the army like him, took a completely different path, coming out on top of the army's tests and quickly squeezed his way from the grassroots reserve into the space fleet, where he quickly gained an advantage, rising in rank again and again.
On top of that, his younger brother participated in the Galactic Expedition and became one of the few heroes to make it back alive early.
The location of the fleet to which his brother's ship belonged was Noah's first choice of breakthrough point, and in less than 10 minutes after the start of the war, the fleet they formed was completely wiped out, but he and some of his comrades immediately entered the detachment pod, successfully escaped in the destruction of the spaceship, and luckily escaped the fierce exchange of fire between the two civilizations on the battlefield afterward, and after the battle, it was discovered and recovered by one of their own ships.
That's the whole story of a defeated soldier on the battlefield.
Then, the Kara government version.
He is one of the soldiers who rushed to the forefront of the battlefield of the entire Gliese 581 galaxy, with tens of thousands of fleets alone against the millions of troops of the Earth civilization, fought bravely to the last moment, destroyed a large number of Earth Civilization warships, and won valuable strategic time for the follow-up troops' operations, they shot the last missile, the last laser, and when the ammunition was exhausted, they opened a road to victory for the Kara warriors behind them by detonating the fusion reactor.
That's the whole story of a civilized hero.
His younger brother has returned in glory, and although the gap between the two is now huge, their brotherhood has not been affected.
His brother tells him that he will be the captain of the new Ise-class battleship and invites him to become the new vice-captain.
Besimos refused, he loved space, just because space was very peaceful, no one else existed, and he was always the only one.
He enjoyed the feeling, the feeling that only he existed in the universe.
If he were to go to the Space Fleet, it would be contrary to his original intention of loving space.
Endless darkness, endless silence, Besimos felt himself one with the universe whenever he fell into it.
He was deeply fascinated by this feeling, and it was at that time that he realized what "life" was.
During this kara hour, Besimos sat in his place and was silent for a long time......
After a long time, Besimos tilted his head slightly, and his yellow vertical pupils saw a projection photo placed aside.
Above, there is a group photo of two young Kara boys and a Kara girl, the older one standing in the middle, being held by another little boy and a little girl, as if holding his own protector, the little boy in the middle looks indifferently ahead.
His brother also told him that he had been in love with their friend who had grown up together, Anna.
One of Besimos' arms picked up the organic drink on the table and raised his glass to the picture.
"May the light of Kara illuminate your journey."
Besimos slowly poured the organic drink into his huge jaw without a pause until the 800ml drink was fully filled.
Today, perhaps, has become the only day when Besimos neglected his duties.
Organic drinks are beverages that are adulterated with organic matter, and there are many types of organic matter in them, one of which, when accumulated in the body to a certain extent, can have an effect similar to that of human drunkenness on the Kara people.
This effect is harmful to the body of the Kara, and Besimos has always been careful about moderation, but today he suddenly wanted to try it.
On this "night", he drank up 200 carat-hour's supply of organic drinks.
He was in a daz, dreaming of many things, dreaming of his childhood, as if he saw the three forever inseparable children again.
One of the children faded away, and the remaining two took hands and disappeared from the end of his sight.
When he collapsed in front of the listening desk and was dizzy, there seemed to be some prompts from the listening system, a low and slow prompt sound, as if some signal from outside the galaxy had been received.
Professional instinct made him crawl up, supporting his body with his tail, and staggered to open the listening interface, and then, a passage translated into Kara's civilization appeared in his drowsy eyes.
"Hello, nascent higher civilization, we have noticed the traces you have left in the universe, and we hereby send our friendly greetings to welcome you to the galactic family. -- A greeting from the Galactic Council, the 59 ruling civilizations. ”