Politics and RightsStar Map Draftsman I: Federation War

The triangular patchwork of ships adjusted its bow, and a bright spot appeared directly in front of it. At first, there was just one bright spot, then the bright spot was used as the center of a circle, and a bright and blue-tinged circle began to be generated, and a source of light similar to lightning currents surged toward the center of the circle, until after it was blindingly bright, the ship was sucked into the circle. The ship did not start its engines and disappeared into thin air, heading for another station on the interstellar route, as if the event had happened in just a moment, and the solar system needed such technology.

-Earth Log, January 2159 AD, recorded by Katherine. -

This is what Katherine wrote in her memo when Dawn Lucius left on the Moreth people’s ship. The Norm Center wanted Dawn Lucius to stay for no other reason than to covet the Moreth people’s technology, but they also knew that nothing could keep Dawn Lucius, even after this contact. They don’t know if this Dawn Lucius is the Commander Lucius of 70 years ago, and a conspiracy theory is circulating in the solar system that the current Dawn Lucius only has the appearance of a human and some of the memories of the real Dawn Lucius, and that he may actually be here to spy on the military power of the solar system and to spy on it. He may actually be here to spy on the military power of the solar system, and after spying clearly, he will lead the troops to kill them. The idealists feel that there is no such threat because the technology of the solar system is so advanced that it does not fear other civilizations, while the realists are more paranoid about being victimized.

“Stop arguing, the only thing he cares about the solar system, is Stacean Lucius,” Katherine shot up, still thinking about how Dawn Lucius looked when she saw Stacean Lucius, what Dawn Lucius was she didn’t know, but one thing she But one thing she knew, Dawn Lucius was just a father, a guilt-ridden father. The words “Protect Stacean Lucius, please.” Still echoing in her ears, there was no threat, and even, there was something helpless in Dawn Lucius’s tone.

“What makes you think so?” The old man across from Katherine said in a loud voice. Questions began to push around the table, some came out to defend Katherine, but that was only because she was Norm Quentin’s daughter, some took the opportunity to come out and question her, and that was only because those people wanted to challenge Norm Quentin, this, was politics, and it had nothing to do with her Katherine.

“Norm Quentin, please allow me to withdraw from the meeting.” Katherine said as she turned off the hologram, her ears cleared, and she went to the ship’s porthole and looked in the direction where Dawn Lucius had disappeared, behind that dark space was a vibrant civilization system.

The ship Dawn Lucius was on stopped in the outer orbit of Kunek Planet, not directly in front of the building where Jonathan had sent him off, and learned from the radio that he would need to wait here for inspection and permission to dock before landing on Kunek Planet. The porthole had been pulled up, and the blue Kunek Planet was hanging in front of him. Outside the orbit hovered three large fortifications, which resembled a huge triangle with smaller triangles nested inside, and in the middle of the triangle was the energy core, with blinding blue light flashing, and small shuttle vehicles flying by the fortifications, flashing yellow cue lights, like a swarm of bees returning from honey picking, and the fortifications were Their hive.

A blue force field separates the Kunek Planet from the starry sky. Dawn Lucius was told on the radio that he could log in, and the ship flew rapidly towards the building. Dawn Lucius in front of a spherical craft rose from below and stopped in front of Dawn Lucius, which was the vehicle that extradited him to the surface. After arriving at the building where Jonathan was located, the soldier who had been explained in advance relayed Jonathan’s message that he had gone to Sundium Planet, Moreth Federation did not act to protect its people, then only Jonathan himself took up arms. The soldier was no procrastinator, he guided Dawn Lucius to another ship bound for Sundium Planet while giving him a word-for-word explanation of everything Jonathan had to relay, and he had more time to be able to continue sorting out what he had to say to Jonathan, if, indeed, he could guide Dawn Lucius to the old woman to save Stacean Lucius, then Dawn Lucius can work with him, this is Sandra said, Jonathan wants to work with Star Map Draftsman, no matter what cooperation, he Dawn Lucius are willing.

“Back so soon, huh?” Jonathan asked with a smile as Dawn Lucius appeared inside the Sundium Planet circular building.

Dawn Lucius hesitated for a moment, and he respectfully walked up to Jonathan and bent down to Jonathan as the soldiers had done. “Moreth steader.”

Jonathan took one look at Dawn Lucius, put on a look of disdain, then laughed out loud and came over and grabbed Dawn Lucius’ arm and teased. “Do Earthlings learn manners that fast?”

Jonathan pulled Dawn Lucius over to the screen, he first manipulated the screen a bit before turning to Dawn Lucius. “You are a Star Map Draftsman, so there is no need to salute the leader of any civilization. One rule that civilizations on Orion Arm know is - we are all obligated to provide all assistance to Star Map Draftsman, assuming you want Moreth Federation to give you the ship, then Moreth Federation must give you the ship.” Jonathan patted Dawn Lucius on the shoulder and continued. “Besides, I don’t want you to treat me as a political symbol like the people of our civilization, when all I need is a friend.”

Dawn Lucius smiled faintly and asked, “What exactly does Star Map Draftsman do? When do I get to meet the person who assigned me the task?” Dawn Lucius was curious to know what he was up to, what would become of him without his human biology, and he was still confused about Star Map Draftsman’s mission.

“The one who assigned you the task is Datheon, only they take the initiative to find you, we can not find them, as for what it is, we do not know. For generations, we only know that Star Map Draftsman is preventing a disaster of some kind, but specifically, no one knows.” Jonathan said with a wave of his hand.

Just, Datheon will come or not now is not the main thing, Dawn Lucius’ imperative is to find a way to save Stacean Lucius, and to avoid the Earth as Strath people attack.

“I’d like to make a request, I don’t know if it will offend you?” Dawn Lucius had something to ask, and besides, one can’t take oneself too seriously, right? His tone contained too much ingratiating feeling.

“Go ahead.” Jonathan said, looking at the screen.

“If the Strath Federation really wants to hit Earth, I want to borrow troops from you to stop them.” Dawn Lucius’ voice was low.

“Lend troops?” As if those two words were like a pin, sticking Jonathan’s voice raised high as he turned to look at Dawn Lucius.

“Hmm.”

Jonathan was silent for a moment and then laughed out loud. His sudden increase in volume made Dawn Lucius think he was really offended, but at that point he was laughing so hard that Dawn Lucius’ face felt like it was on fire.

“That’s not going to happen.” Jonathan finished laughing and said with a wave of his hand.

Seeing Dawn Lucius with his head down, Jonathan patted him on the shoulder and said. “Come with me, let’s get you up to speed on the politics of the Moreth Federation.” Jonathan led Dawn Lucius through the screen area and the two walked to a place where chairs were set up and sat down, Jonathan began to tell Dawn Lucius about the composition of the Moreth Federation’s power.

“I’m sure you’ve learned about the Moreth Federation’s right construction from my mother.” Jonathan paused for a moment as he moved the pendulum on the table to his preferred angle and continued. “Moreth Federation has always been peace loving, we have had a countable number of large scale wars with other civilizations over hundreds of millions of years, this stems from our reasonable political structure and, our civilization does not chase power.”

“Right?” Dawn Lucius asked.

“Yes, interstellar rights. Even if Earth is a low-level civilization, the way you chase rights between different countries is the same pattern as the chasing of rights between different civilizations in the galaxy. For a civilization, power is equivalent to currency. The greater the power of a certain civilization, the more it can dominate the political tendencies of other civilizations around it, the more it can dominate the transactions and wars in the region. What does power depend on? A nation or a civilization as a whole, of course. Whether it is the Ashton Federation or the Strath Federation, the purpose of chasing power is to dominate other civilizations, and the fastest means of gaining power is war.”

“Does the Moreth Federation not chase rights?”

“Definitely chasing the rights.” Jonathan shrugged as he sat up straight and continued. “But the way our civilization chases power is not war, we expand our influence by building interdependence with other civilizations. the political bodies of the Moreth Federation are interdependent triangles that operate independently of each other, they expand their influence by building dependence with other civilizations, like the Military Department, this agency is leading all military operations of Moreth Federation, all our weapons, spaceship manufacturing are managed by this agency ......”

“Is this institution fighting a war?” Dawn Lucius asked impatiently.

“Hahahaha, no fight.” Jonathan laughed and waved his hand as he continued. “But did you know that most of the Star Bridges on Orion Arm were established by this agency, and Moreth Federation opened these routes to all civilizations who pay us galaxy coin. However, these routes cannot be used to transport soldiers fighting the war. ”

“Can’t even soldiers be shipped?”

“Not really, if it’s a soldier suppressing a rebellion that can be transported.” Jonathan stood up proudly, pointed out the window in a certain direction, and continued. “You see, the Military Department is in that direction, and the administration center is there on Maniya Planet, a planet armed to the air, but we don’t need to start a war to expand our influence, that’s how we chase power.”

Dawn Lucius seems to understand that Moreth people actually maintain the interstellar transport order, an order in which there is freedom and they do not need to use force to promote peace.

“I see, the more developed the civilization is, the more willing they are to maintain their prosperity from being destroyed, and they won’t easily start a war.” Dawn Lucius also stood up and walked to Jonathan’s side.

“Yes, for most prosperous planets, that’s true.” Jonathan added with a shake of his head. “But you mustn’t forget that behind power are people. Not everyone is satisfied with their rights. When human nature’s desire for power is not satisfied, people drive civilizations to wage war for supremacy. The Strath Federation is like that.”

“How does the Moreth Federation prevent rulers from over-reaching for power?” Dawn Lucius asks.

“Our rulers are the people, not Moreth steader, the rights are locked in the cage of the people, but the problem is that the people of Moreth Federation have been misled, the three major institutions are holding Moreth Federation by the throat, I can’t even protect my own people. ” Jonathan gave Dawn Lucius a look as he set his eyes on the lake outside the building.

“What about Moreth steader’s rights?”

“Moreth steader?” laughed Jonathan, looking at Dawn Lucius. “I’m just a symbol, representing the Moreth Federation on certain occasions, not to mention I don’t need the power. The Federation needs financial support to operate, and our financial institution is on Cunzani Planet, which is rich in rare metals and run by a bunch of smart Moreth people. Barring a cosmic level catastrophe, the Moreth Federation would still be running in this healthy state. Except this time, the Strath people have killed it at the door. Did you know that?” Jonathan turned to Dawn Lucius and continued. “Moreth Federation’s main area is Kunek Planet as the center of the circle, outside a circle of defensive fortress, to include Maniya Planet and Cunzani Planet in the inside of the, as long as our core is not threatened, the rest of the star field territory has no effect on us. The most expensive resource on Orion Arm is people, and even if the Strath people take down more planets, they don’t have the people to develop and manage them.”

“And what was the purpose of the Strath people’s attack on Earth?”

“The attack on Earth was mainly for resources, but I suspect it was just an illusion, and they aimed to take the opportunity to loot the passing star fields, which contain the assets of Moreth Federation and Ashton Federation.”

“But what resources can there be in an entire solar system that is actually quite barren?” Dawn Lucius wondered.

“Population!” Jonathan mouthed firmly.

“Population?” Dawn Lucius thought she had heard wrong.

“Right. The solar system has so much population, if Strath people can plunder half of the earth’s people as slaves, then in a few years, the economy of their star field will be more developed. Moreover, this time the two princes of Strath people have clearly defined their goals, Burt is to grab Ashton Federation’s White Crystal technology, Carlson’s goal may be the same, he is now heading towards Moreth Federation’s main star sequence, we are now in the Sundium Planet, is also Carlson’s path after all, they plunder every planet they pass, every plunder, is a provocation to the sovereignty of Moreth Federation, and our people are losing their lives in the plunder.”

“I see.” Dawn Lucius paused. “So if you go and ask the Ashton people to resist the Strath people, won’t that protect the Earth?” Dawn Lucius asked, looking at Jonathan.

“No need to please, Ashton people are also actively preparing for war, check it out.” Jonathan walked towards a screen in the center of the hall, the nebula dense image could not be seen, Jonathan marked all the star fields with military activities, in the direction towards Strath Federation, planets with military activities were like a string of pearls, this was the defensive line Ashton people had established at the edge of their own star field. Outside the defensive line, there are warships heading in the direction of Kunek Planet, Jonathan explained to Dawn Lucius, these are to rescue Lord Winifred who was held by Carlson, said this, Dawn Lucius gave Jonathan said once through. Both men felt at this point that the rumors that Burt and Carlson are competing for the position of chief may be wrong, they are more like teaming up, Burt knows that Lord Winifred in Gyaly Planet, his purpose is to capture Lord Winifred, sent to Carlson’s ship as a talisman, with Lord Winifred in, Moreth Federation control army of those people will not easily attack Carlson, and Carlson can continue to take Lord Winifred this card to threaten Moreth Federation, so that when Burt hit Ashton Federation, the Moreth Federation can’t help.

“Ashton people put all their troops on the front lines?” Dawn Lucius asked, pointing at the screen.

“Right.”

“If there is a seizure of power or a riot in the Federation, then won’t their front lines be in shambles?”

“It’s entirely possible. The Ashton Federation’s political structure is a little more complicated.” Jonathan agreed with Dawn Lucius. He exited the image he had just seen and brought up another star map on the screen. He pointed to one of the orange planets. He was about to tell Dawn Lucius about the administrative structure of the Ashton Federation when two people came in the door.

The thin man wore a cloak that attacked the ground, the body was wrapped tightly, the whole person looked like a moving haystack on a head, if not for his unbeatable expression, it is difficult to imagine that this is a person. Followed by his side of the fat and tall like a fat middle-aged man, the years did not leave him merit, but in his waist left a pile of fat, walking two hands slightly fluttering, wrist glowing jewelry is particularly conspicuous.

The two walked all the way to Jonathan and Dawn Lucius, the skinny one spoke first, “Moreth steader.” He just nodded slightly, while the fat and tall one bent down to give Jonathan a salute like the other Moreth people, with worry written all over his face.

“What are my CFO and the General doing here today when they have time?” Jonathan scanned the two men.

“We heard that Moreth steader befriended a Star Map Draftsman and thought we’d come over to check it out.” The thin man glanced at Dawn Lucius, as if Dawn Lucius was just a strange-faced servant in his eyes, and he turned his face to the fat tall man and said. “I thought ah, Star Map Draftsman is some great creature, it turns out ah ......” the latter words he did not say further, just with a harsh laugh to carry over.

Jonathan watched as the skinny man finished laughing and the fat, tall man stood on the side with his head bowed and his expression changed from worried when he entered to worried, Jonathan looked at him and asked. “General, what do you think?”

“Moreth steader, all along, Star Map Draftsman is chosen by Datheon, they have their own reason, I dare not freely guess the reason inside.” The fat general finished, his head lowered a little more.

“What’s there to guess?” The thin man interrupted, his eyes sternly looking at Jonathan as he asked. “I’d like to ask the Moreth steader, Strath people didn’t attack the core area of Moreth Federation, and you chose to run to this unimportant planet with soldiers to stop them, you know they hold Lord Winifred hostage? If you go to war with Carlson head on and injure Lord Winifred by mistake, what is Moreth steader going to do about it?”

“I don’t think it’s the treasurer’s turn to ask questions, my general will handle the war, just be a good businessman and make good money for the Federation.” Jonathan seemed calm, but his voice was raised much higher.

The muscles in the skinny man’s face lifted upward, causing his brow to tighten into a pile of folds as he returned without showing any weakness. “Our Moreth steader is the one who shouldn’t worry about it, just hide safely in the middle of the Federation and don’t cause trouble for the Federation.” The small man looked up at the window, he turned his eyes to Jonathan again and continued. “Moreth steader to worry about is to smile, you only need to worry about smiling, we can not.”

“I’ve always felt that my CFO just didn’t see me as a Moreth steader?” Jonathan said with a death stare at the skinny man.

“How dare you then? We Moreth steaders were given the qualification of ‘Moreth steader’ before we were born, and even if we don’t contribute to the Federation, this right is only available to Moreth steaders.” The thin man turned his face to the other direction as he said this.

“I think it’s time for you to learn what respect means.” Dawn Lucius walked up to the finance officer and spoke in a loud voice.

The skinny man glanced at Dawn Lucius, still looking at him like he saw nothing, he turned to look at the tall fat man and sneered. “General, I heard that Star Map Draftsman are some great people, I’ve lived so long, but I’ve never seen a lowly creature can also become Star Map Draftsman,” the skinny man extended his index finger from under his clothes and pointed at Dawn Lucius, the sneer just now turned into loud After he stopped laughing, his face sank and he spoke loudly to Dawn Lucius. “General, has Star Map Draftsman become inferior, and Orion Arm’s once great mentor, become a faith that any inferior creature can become?”

The tall fat man did not say anything, he looked up at Jonathan, looked at Dawn Lucius, then lowered his head back to his original position, he respected Moreth steader, or, he still respected the right, at least not as blatantly provoked Jonathan as the skinny man. The skinny man was indignant, he dropped his hand, turned his face to stare at Dawn Lucius Lucius, squeezed out a sentence from his chest: “I wish Strath Federation could exterminate the solar system and those lowly creatures, before Star Map Draftsman are robbed by lowly creatures.”

Destroy the solar system? Dawn Lucius could not bear this, Stacean Lucius was still lying in that cold dormant silo, whoever wanted to destroy Stacean Lucius’s solar system, Dawn Lucius could fight for his life. Dawn Lucius stared dead at the thin man as he said, verbatim, “You! Try! Try!”

The tall fat man was the first to react, his mouth opened wide and he raised his hand to point at Dawn Lucius and took a few quick steps backwards, the ruthlessness on the skinny man’s face disappeared, his face went white and after swallowing hard, he too took a step backwards as the skinny man spoke. “How do you ......” he rearranged his statement and continued to add. “Will you master this energy?”

Dawn Lucius came back to his senses and he found himself being yanked off the ground by energy, his whole body wrapped in purple light, those lights, as if they were part of his body. It felt strange, he wasn’t a man of rage, but this time, along with the last time he raged inside, he had a hard time noticing his presence, always feeling driven by something, he imagined spewing light from his eyes, cutting off everything standing in front of him, swinging his fists, breaking those he cut off. All he wanted to do was kill, keep killing, it was a terrible thought. dawn Lucius was also frightened by himself, he regained his composure and changed back to the way he was before the two men entered the house and retreated behind Jonathan, the tall fat man tugged on the skinny man’s shirt, the skinny man still had the same attitude he had before entering the house, the fat general gave Jonathan a respectful farewell and quickly without looking back left. But the house always feels like something was broken.

“Dawn, I didn’t think that you had it in you.” Jonathan exclaimed.

“Moreth steader, this ability is not something good, when the purple light appears, it’s like I’m not myself, it feels like something has emptied my heart, I even want to kill, my heart is hungry for killing ...... “Dawn Lucius paused for a moment as he looked at his hands and continued. “What is this thing?”

“This is an ability that only Datheon can master, the ability to control dark matter.”

“Dark matter?”

“Yeah ...... will explain it to you later. We still have to think about how to defend against Strath people,” Jonathan said as he walked back to the screen and continued to look at the diagram he had to explain earlier.

“Moreth steader, I want to ask you something.” Dawn Lucius said as she followed Jonathan.

“Go ahead.”

“I want to beg the old woman to save my son.”

Jonathan’s hand stopped in front of the screen, he was thoughtful, after a pause, Jonathan continued to tap the screen, then he turned and put his hand on Dawn Lucius’s shoulder, looked down at Dawn Lucius and said. “Do you know the consequences? Do you want a son without a soul?Moreth Federation has very high technology, if someone loses their life, we will let them go, salvation is not rebirth, our technology can only do re-creation, after the re-creation of the person, without the previous soul, my mother will not give you a re-creation of a son without a soul.”

“Is there anything else you can do?” Dawn Lucius begged.

“This is the kind of thing that only Earthlings can do, and if they are technologically advanced enough to reawaken your son and cure him again when he wakes up, I think he’ll still be the same person.” Jonathan said.

“When is Earth’s technology advanced enough?” Dawn Lucius asked.

“Right.” Jonathan added as he turned to sort out the diagram on the screen. “But only if you can keep the planet.” He tapped the screen.

“I heard from one of the people in charge on Earth that Mars is working on gene therapy technology, and maybe, that’s a solution.” Dawn Lucius remembered what Katherine had told him, and Katherine thought that there was a chance that Stacean Lucius would wake up and wake up as the same six-year-old boy he had been when he was dormant.

“That’s what you call ‘karma’, right?”

“Hmm. You guys don’t believe me?”

Jonathan laughed brightly as he turned to look at Dawn Lucius and spoke. “You should know that intermediate civilizations only believe in the rules of the universe that created everything, that existence is existence and non-existence is non-existence.”

“Then you really have nothing to look forward to in life.” Dawn Lucius expressed with some regret upon hearing this.

“It depends on how you interpret it.”

The two men were silent for a while, he was calculating in his heart, Moreth Federation is not willing to participate in the war, Jonathan brought soldiers are actively preparing for the war, Centaly still recognize Jonathan, they aim to protect Moreth steader’s rights, but Strath people and the ninth legion but no one recognize, if really fighting, maybe the soldiers will leave Jonathan first. Dawn Lucius thought about it, and now he could only bet that Jonathan would be able to rouse the Moreth Federation’s army to stop the Strath people from advancing, and then he would have a chance to protect the solar system from being invaded by the Strath people.