Chapter 4: The black box

A day after the galactic council meeting....

I sneered at disgust as what I was reading. Their local internet had a lot of information. It's been 4 hours from the hack in the COMS channels of the council now called the republic. The information exchange was primitive. It was 2gb per seconds compared to terra's 4 tera bite per second information exchange. I saw a LOT of information. It was so easy. They even have primitive encryption that even a teenager back on terra would easily hack by using a.i algorithms. What I saw about the children being trained as soldiers is disgusting. The so called justice bringers other wise known as the Jedi forces children to join their cult. They even have permission to take children away without any consent from their families. It was barbaric. The Jedi are disgusting. They steal children who are force sensitive, indoctrinate them, destroying any emotions, and probably causing emotional instability and might also cause them to lean to what the Jedi call the dark side of the force because of the emotional instability. Goddamn these people are so primitive that they even Don't know about psychology. I also saw information about a galactic civil war. It's still ongoing. I smiled at the idea of destroying this rotten galactic republic from the inside, and cause an insurrection. They are somewhat superior in some areas like technology plasma weapons, FTL, hover tech, and robotics. I read about something as a droid rebellion because their masters were abusing them. I sighed as these people are dumb as hell. I wonder why did they even got to space, and not wipe themselves out. They did have safer FTL alternatives but we humans... Well... I shuddered at the thought of going through psych space. It's basically hyperspace but with the voices of the damned, crimson red void filled with specters, and faster than hyperspace. I remembered that time I got grabbed by one of the specters, and being dragged to the ground being pulled down by said specter until I got saved by my comrade. It would make hyperspace obsolete since it doesn't need lanes you can just blip into psych space, and just hope just hope you won't get dragged into a gravitational wells by the specters who scream at you like they are in pain to go to a specific location that is a gravitational well/black hole or sent to an uncharted planet if you blip out of psych space (That happened to someone once, and later got rescued after a recon ship explored the area where he crash landed others.... Well they died, and became one of the specters screaming for all eternity in that void. The guy who blipped out of psych space was lucky as hell.). It's basically the afterlife except you can travel faster than hyperspace. I wonder what it looks like today? Hmmm.....

I believe it's called by the council back in the past as chaos, the void, and the netherworld from what I've heard from the past conferences between the council, and the consortium diplomats talking about our FTL method. I then looked up the glassing of terran colonies database that I downloaded back on terra before it was planet cracked, and surprisingly my suit says there's a black box project site nearby broadcasting information in radio. I wonder what type of black box is that? Is it information spreading to perhaps some species would find their remains, and be wary about the galactic council? Or maybe a superweapon development site that went on idle after the planet cracking of terra? Well time to make a space craft. I was a former mechanic for space fighters before I went to special forces recon. I remember the parts of the fighter. The F/A-117 arrowtip. I built a chassis in the shape of an arrow tip, good seating, a helljump engine, complex computer parts, stealth systems, a small nuclear reactor, life support systems, multiple redundant systems Incase the life support system malfunctions, a star map system on what quadrants I remember, a VTOL system, oxygen recycling systems, and a electromagnetic coil gun with bullets tipped with uranium.

A few weeks later...

Oh god... It's finally done! It was harder than I thought! I really wished I had other people with me. I sighed, and rested for a bit. I hid the attack aerospace fighter with a camouflage net with the color is sand considering I was in a desert. I smiled at the new fighter I just assembled with trial and error.

Well time to take this baby for a test drive. I activated the fighter smiling as it took off vertically. I then activated the stealth systems. After that I went to the atmosphere, and activated the helljump engine.

When I blipped into psych space and saw a lot of specters screaming at me. Nope. I'm not going to listen to the damned. I'm not gonna listen to the life forms that lives in this godforsaken void.

I sang to try and drown out the voices of the damned. The voice of the people who got turned into specters, and ignore the sounds coming from the outside.

Xenophobia by Bill Sutton.

"Let's be xenophobic! It's really in this year

Let's find a nasty, slimy, ugly alien to fear

There's no more cutesy stories 'bout E.T. phoning home

Let's learn to love our neighbors, like the Christians learned in Rome!"

"We know we ought to hate 'em; they're different, you see

We've seen they're mean and ugly on movies and TV

The folks that ought to know have told us how it's got to be

The gospel truth is found in scenes from Alien and V!"

"Let's wipe out any lifeform that seems to be a threat

We'll serve 'em up a genocide they never will forget

'Cause if we miss a couple, they'll breed a couple more!

And soon we'll all be hating twice as many as before!"

"You see, aliens can never be as good as humankind

A more delightful race than us you'll never, ever find

So step aside, you star slime, we're ready for your worst!

We know you want to beat us, enslave us and defeat us,

Oppress us and browbeat us, unless we get you first!"

I continued singing as more and more specters was screaming at me from outside.

Carolus rex by sabaton

"All embrace me

It's my time to rule at last.

Fifteen years have I been waiting

To sit upon my throne!"

"No allegiance

I will swear no oath

Crowned by god not by the church

As my power is divine!"

"They thought I was too young to rule the land

Just as they failed to understand

Born to rule

My time has come."

"I was chosen by heaven!

Say my name when you pray

To the skies

See Carolus rise.

With the lord my protector

Make them bow to my will

To the skies

See Carolus rise!"

"To the skies

See Carolus rise!

"Proved in battle

Led my men to victory!

No man alive or dead commands me

I answer to the Lord!"

"Hear my orders

Question me and die!

What I say was said in heaven

And so it shall be done!"

"I know I was destined to rule alone

All for myself I have claimed the throne

Born to rule

My time is now!" Suddenly a specter started banging the hull of the fighter. Nope I am not dealing with that shit. I continued singing. As long as I don't get distracted by those things I'm okay. I'm okay.....

"I was chosen by heaven!

Say my name when you pray

To the skies

See Carolus rise.

With the lord my protector

Make them bow to my will

To the skies!

See Carolus rise!""

"To the skies

See Carolus rise!"

"Framåt Karoliner

Fiendens dom är här

Låt oss krossa dom

Kasta in dom genom helvetets portar!"

(Translation: Forward Karoliner

The judgment of the enemy is here

Let's crush them

Cast them through the gates of hell!)

"All that's thine shall be mine, there's no stopping me

All over Europe my rule shall be questioned by none!"

"All I see give to me, that is my decree

My will be done."

"They thought I was too young to rule the land

Just as they failed to understand

Born to rule

My time is now."

Then the computer system detected that we are nearby the signal of the radio signals we've detected from that galactic republic planet. The computer says that were a couple hundreds of light-years away from any galactic council controlled world.

I dropped out of psych space and saw a rogue matrioshka world. It's basically a giant habitat build above a world made out of metal, and other components that has a lot of layers of habitats it's like a Dyson swarm but built for habitation it's a solution for homelessness why would you take an expensive, dangerous trip, and populate a world without being terraformed that would take centuries to terraform like mars or venus rather than building habitats around a planet powered by solar energy imported from mercury or use the natural geothermal energy of the planet. I remember that there was a matrioshka world built in a human controlled system by the government because that quadrant was overpopulated but it was glassed/destroyed back in the first two years of the war. What happened? Why is there another terran made matrioshka world? What the hell did they do here? It took us a few decades for make one but the government never said that they had another one made. huh so this is probably a secret world probably made for making weapons, or perhaps a last ditch effort to protect the last free terran decent humans, rebuild, and destroy our enemy for what they did to our people, and colonies. Then I thought... What if this planet had anyone in it? Finally! I found out some of us were free! Without the influence of the council!

I speed up, and went closer to the planet. Suddenly a transmission was detected. "Unknown craft detected identify yourself." The transmission said in a robotic tone. "I'm lieutenant 2nd class Fischer becker of the 207th special forces reconnaissance battalion." I then created an identical i.d I had in the recon battalion before I died, and flashed it at the screen. "Access granted. Good morning lieutenant. You are now promoted to a colonel. You are now the only military personnel left in the consortium. Please enter this matrioshka world."

I smiled. Finally I can.... Wait did the transmission said the only military personnel left in the consortium? I thought this was probably some sort of apocalypse bunker. What is this an automated facility?

As I ventured deeper I saw a desolate world filled with ships of the line from the terran space force. I even saw a dreadnought, an destroyer carrier, and a lot of frigates. What happened here? Why is this a desolate world? Where are the people? Shouldn't this be filled with personell cleaning up stuff? I the. arrived at a space port and saw a lot of robots cleaning the place maintaining it.

"Good morning colonel Fischer. This is project Thanatos. This world is a contingency project housing a true artificial intelligence that is triggered if some species tries to destroy humanity, and needs approval of a military personnel of the consortium. This facility is made on a rogue world because it is easy to hide, and hard to find because of its not existent orbit. I am facility a.i 7734 call me Thanatos. I need the approval of a military personnel of the consortium. Would you approve the activation of the fleets?" Asked the facility artificial intelligence. I thought of it. If it kills me, and does a genocide on the filthy Zeno's why not. And if it doesn't kill me and kills the filthy Zeno's it's a deal. "Proposal approved." I said to the facility artificial intelligence. "Activation of protocol spite is successful. Activating the fleets."

Suddenly the dreadnoughts, carriers, and frigates roared to life. Then a lot of drones with human like appearances appeared with skin made out of silicone but inside it's made out of a hyper alloy. "Welcome colonel. We are the gestalt mind of project Thanatos. We are true artificial intelligences with a hive mind through the flow of information from our transmitters. How many us serve you?" Asked the drones. I was a little surprised. The way they spoke together kinda made me flinch. "At ease. I am colonel Fischer but call me gespenster. Please be at ease. Anyways. We need to burn down the galactic council. They have glass Terra's colonies, and enslaved my people. I order you to ready yourselves for a counter attacks. Let's take back our enslaved people, and make a fresh start. Be ready within a few weeks. Ready the equipment for the invasion of council worlds."

"Sir?" Asked as humanoid drone. "yes?" "Will we attack civilian worlds without any militaries?" Ask the drone. "Yes. They don't need a luxury of being treated as people. They are just scum. They enslaved my species for just profit, and progress. They glassed civilians, and enslaved those who surrendered. They aren't protected by the accords anymore since they targeted civilian worlds. All bets are off." I smiled at the thought of bringing the fight to the council. Revenge... Revenge for the souls who died because of their tyranny. Revenge for all those suffering. An eye for an eye.

To be continued in the next chapter...