Kara 24483 AD, about 15440 AD. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Salmos has just finished an interstellar battle, and as a legendary captain in civilization, he is sitting in the captain's seat of the flagship of the pursuing fleet, calmly giving orders.

The captain was still a little young from the Kara's countenance, but no one in the fleet would question his decision.

Because, he is one of the youngest heroes of civilization.

Salmos was only a grassroots soldier of the Kara civilization in his early years, and joined the army with his brother Besimos, but his brother was extremely withdrawn and did not develop well in the army, and was gradually transferred out, and eventually became a listener in the Kuiper belt. But he is different, he showed great military talent in his youth, and successfully squeezed from the grassroots reserve into the category of the space fleet step by step.

He was selected for the Galactic Expeditionary Force, where he became the lieutenant of one of the Ixiang-class space battleships, and traveled 20.4 light-years away, which was a frontal battlefield for a war with another advanced civilization, the Earth civilization.

This is fortunate for anyone who was born in the era of war and has excellent military talents, he knows that if the expeditionary force can return victoriously, the glory of the first victory over other civilizations in the history of the Kara civilization will be able to sweep away too many obstacles in his military career, and then with his own ability and glamorous resume, it can be said that it is an ironclad thing to enter the military top of the civilization.

But he was also unlucky, the formation in which the Ixiang-class battleships he was in participated in were the first to engage in a firefight with the fleet of the Earth civilization.

In less than 10 minutes, the fleet he was in was completely wiped out, including of course the Ixiang-class battleship of which he was the lieutenant.

Salmos still remembers the scene when the old captain, captured by the gas leak from the spaceship's hollow, kicked him into the escape pod at the last minute.

He and some of his comrades successfully escaped the destruction of the Ixiang-class battleship in the escape pod, and very fortunately, the impact of the explosion of the Ixiang-class spacecraft accelerated the initial speed of their escape pod to the third cosmic speed of the Gliese 581 system, allowing them to successfully avoid the fierce exchange of fire between the two civilizations, and after the battle, they were discovered by a small spaceship that searched for survivors.

Due to the destruction of the Ixiang-class spacecraft and the attrition of the expeditionary force, he was sent back to the solar system along with a part of the soldiers.

As a defeated soldier on the battlefield who was sent back, he felt a deep shame, and even the Kara military badge on his body, which he had been proud of countless times, became a little hot at this moment.

But in complete opposition to the deep humiliation he felt, he was overwhelmed by the spontaneous formation of a huge welcoming fleet of people who had lined up from the surface of Kara to the system's home port.

He and his comrades-in-arms who returned with him were hailed as heroes of civilization......... The commander of the Galactic Expeditionary Force, the military consul of the Kara civilization, personally bestowed this honor on them.

Every late night, when he was alone in his room, stroking the badge that marked his hero's identity, he would recall the old captain being sucked away by the spaceship's hollow.

He also became the captain of the ship, and he was the captain of a new generation of Ise-class space battleships with a tonnage of 10 times that of the Ixiang-class spaceship, and the rank of captain was two levels above the rank of Ixiang-class captain.

He had been fighting hard for this honor for too long, he had imagined the day when he would become the captain of the ship countless times, but when this day really came, he found that he did not have any happiness and satisfaction, at the Ise-class boarding ceremony, he did not say a word, after the boarding ceremony, he came alone to the martyr's monument that recorded the names of the soldiers killed in battle, and found the names of all the fallen on the Ise-class spaceship he was on from the countless names.

He buried the badge of the hero of civilization under the old captain's name.

Since then, he has felt that he, like his brother, has suffered from aloism.

But the sacred Kara is in contact with all the star spirits, and the upper echelons of the civilization discovered that his psychological state is abnormal, and in order to treat the mental illness of this civilization hero, the lieutenant assigned to him is a Kara woman named Anna who grew up with him since childhood, because of Salmos, Anna was promoted to 3 levels in a row, and initially had the qualifications to become the lieutenant of the Ise-class spaceship.

The treatment of Sarmos's mental illness was a direct order from the top of the civilization to Anna, and on the first day of Anna's tenure, Anna told Salmos about her intentions and the orders she received.

Both Salmos and Anna know each other too well, and they both know what kind of attitude they should use to face each other.

After a space exercise, it was announced that it was temporarily grounded due to the poor performance of the Ise-class.

On that day, Salmos could no longer bear the shame in his heart, and he drove the shuttle alone to fly out of the solar system and in front of the civilization of the earth, so that he could live in shame under great glory like the old captain and those dead comrades.

In that state, every honor is a sarcasm for him, and the more everyone respects him, the more he will feel that the other person is laughing at him.

As it passed Uranus, his shuttle was hit by an iron oxide meteorite in Uranus' rings that struck the propulsion engine at a relative speed of 1.5 times the speed of the third universe.

Chaotic flight, crashing engines, make the shuttle a part of Uranus' rings.

The closed environment of the shuttle was destroyed, and the gas began to leak, and Salmos seemed to return to the Ixiang-class battleship that was sunk by the Earth fleet, and once again saw the scene of the old captain being "blown into space" by the gas leak.

Once again, he saw the old captain's yellow eyes looking at him the moment before he was blown into space.

The yellow vertical pupils reflect the calm of death.

When Salmos woke up again, he was the first to see Anna beside him, and some of the same yellow vertical pupils were only calm.

Anna's eyes overlapped with those of the old captain, and Salmos realized that it was not a calm for death.

It's the tranquility of surviving another life.

It turned out that the moment he drove the shuttle away, a group of fighters and frigates followed him. The mother civilization once again rescued him in the dark and cold space.

At that moment, he proposed to Anna.

Anna agreed.

As a result of Anna's intervention, Salmos's mental state begins to improve, and Salmos remembers his brother, the lonely man who enjoys solitude in the eternal darkness of Kuiper, and he begins to understand each other at this moment, and Salmos begins to be keen to talk to this loved one whom he cherished but could not understand.

Sometimes, it is the lonelier who can help one lonely person who is even lonelier.

With the help of civilization, friendship (love), and relatives, Salmos gradually came out of the shadows, and he was reborn in his mother civilization.

After that, Salmos went to the Martyrs' Monument again.

He dug out the badge buried under the old captain's name, put it on his chest, and gave a solemn military salute to the names he knew in the setting sun.

The badge was buried again in the earth, and Salmos never visited the Martyrs' Monument again.

But in the Kara civilization, a legendary captain who can truly assume the title of "Hero of Civilization" was born on that day.

He began to study the enemies of his civilization, and through the observation data of the Earth civilization left over from the previous era, he had a preliminary understanding of what kind of civilization it was.

He liked a quote from the history of civilization on Earth.

The people who know you best are not your friends, but your enemies.

To become aware of themselves better than they are is the goal that Salmos has set for himself.

In the course of his long studies, he began to force himself to think from the perspective of an earthling, and he even began to hypnotize himself, thinking of himself as a captain, a soldier, or a civilian in the Earth's fleet...... Imagine what their state of mind is at the moment.

This made his wife Anna very worried, fearing that he would suffer from some kind of psychological illness again, but this time Salmos himself was sober, and he became more and more aware that this war should end as soon as possible.

The escape directions of the earth civilization are too wide, and some of the earth ships have even come to the periphery of the solar system, and Salmos takes the Ise class he owns, leading part of the solar system fleet, constantly supporting and capturing the earth civilization spaceships that have fled in the void within 15 light years around the solar system.

And 1 Kara-hour ago, the successful capture of an Earth civilization ship carrying 200,000 Sidneys became the first result of Sarmos worthy of that badge.

He successfully gained insight into the intention of the Earth Civilization spaceship to self-destruct, and in the negotiation delay operation using the approach of his own warship as a bait, he successfully made the nanobots invade the Earth Civilization spaceship that had lost its resistance, and used the infrasound pulses caused by the spaceship to make 200,000 Sidneys lose the ability to commit suicide.

If the last Galactic Expeditionary Force was a victory on the scale of civilization.

This time the capture of life by the earth civilization is another victory on a racial scale.

With this satisfactory result, Salmos intends to return to the solar system.

Because he received a civilization announcement 10 karat hours ago, there was a very strange thing that broke into the solar system.

In the information that Civilization fed back to him, he saw what it was.

It was a very simple, very small U-shaped surface.

It's like a half-cut test tube, with no decorative patterns or any handles to hold, so you can't see what the half-tube is used for other than to hold liquids.

The Kara civilization gave it the name "Round Cup".

The reason why it is called a cup is because after calculation, it does contain a milliliter of liquid, and that milliliter of liquid, in the space environment without gravity, quietly stays at the bottom of this round cup.

But what puzzled the entire Kara civilization was that they couldn't measure the mass of the round cup, nor could they tell what the milliliter of liquid was.

It did exist, but they couldn't find any evidence for the existence of the cup, which in Kara's field of vision, had zero mass and zero energy, except for the physical contact between the light and the ship.

How can something that has neither mass nor energy exist?

But it suddenly appeared in the solar system, quietly hovering in front of the solar system fleet of the Kara civilization, which was twice the size of the Galactic Expeditionary Force.

Until the small ship took it into its cabin, it did not react to the outside world.

For some reason, seeing the civilization's description of the "round cup", Salmos suddenly remembered something he had just read yesterday about the religious beliefs of the old era of the earth's civilization.

A sentence that had swept his gaze in that message resurfaced in his mind at this moment.

[In the Holy Grail, the blood of the gods has been released. 】

And God said, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, and ye shall do it every time you drink of it, in remembrance of me.

The arrogant and joking words disappeared from his mind as if they had been swept away from his gaze at the moment.

Kara's civilization also had religious beliefs in the old era, but when Kara really entered the interstellar age, the idealism of those old times was gradually forgotten by people over time. Today's Kara, if you really want to talk about faith, it may be the belief in the name "Kara" and the history that this name represents.

Salmos browsed the religions of the old days of Earth's civilization only to help him understand part of the origins of history.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Ise-class space battleship, with the Kara fleet behind it and a part of the captured Earth Civilization spaceships, entered the curvature voyage and began to return to the solar system.