episode_0081

In my hometown, the Republic of Korea, there was a case where electronic entertainment took the place of folk games as computer entertainment developed.

It also contains a story about space, and mainly focuses on the war against aliens.

Star Wars.

It is said that it is only now possible to conduct actual combat training by constructing battlefields that are no different from reality through simulators, but in a time when technological development was slow, the basic skills of commanders were tested using so-called ‘stars’.

-How can a poor person who is not even a star want to handle actual AS maneuvers?

There may be some who ask what this has to do with stars, but those who cannot clear the ‘campaign’ provided by the game company will think a little differently.

But putting that aside, what I want to say now is the ‘material’ in the story.

-Marines come from criminal backgrounds. They reduce the number of days they serve by participating in the war against aliens.

Soldiering of prisoners.

Allowing people who have committed murder or other crimes to hold guns can cause major problems in many ways, but the development of technology and the setting of AI have given sufficient probability to suppress that problem.

in other words.

Putting aside human rights issues such as criminals’ human rights, if you ask whether it is technically possible to ‘turn prisoners into soldiers’, it is 140% possible in the current era.

There are technical and resource problems, but-

“We have the ether bus.”

If you use the Creation Tree, which can also be called a transcendental body, it is possible to transform prisoners into soldiers.

“Isn’t that right, Yggdrasil Colony Chairman?”

“You call it so openly that it’s just the two of you.”

“Because there are two of us, we call each other openly, but in front of other people, we just call each other Chairman, right?”

“Well, that’s it. Instructors are necessary for our colony in many ways.”

I was courteous to Yggdrasil as the chairman, and Yggdrasil was also courteous to me as a kind of ‘advisor’.

“As a pilot, an instructor, a senior, and a man.”

“Man…? Well, are you saying that when you die, even if you die, you should at least sow seeds and go?”

“Look, Instructor Cloud.”

“Other than that, I don’t think there’s any reason for me as a man to be helpful to this colony.”

“…….”

Chairman Yggdrasil looks at me intently.

The eyes behind the glasses, the shape of the eyes, and the slightly distorted expression all feel quite familiar.

To put it bluntly –

“What is that look in your eyes that says, ‘How can you, a human being, be less tactful than me, the creator of creation?’”

“Do you know that well?”

“I’ve often received things like that in the past.”

“You know that from experience, but don’t you try to understand why that situation happened?”

“What is the meaning of understanding that? In this era where we are busy living every day. And even if that were the case, it is a bit humane to expect something from a terminally ill man as a man.”

I raised my hands.

“Even if an artificial human is created through artificial cultivation using the genes of an excellent pilot, it is only a technology that efficiently creates soldiers stronger than average.”

“…….”

“So far, many colonies have used the ace pilot’s genes to create clones or superhumans through genetic manipulation. And they all died by the original.”

At least, that was the case with all the entities I’ve encountered so far that could be called ‘clones’.

“If it were possible to dominate the universe with mass-produced aircraft and Ace clones, Taurus Colony would probably have taken the throne of the universe by now. And that…”

“Me too, same.”

Chairman Yggdrasil, unusually, accepted it obediently.

“If I had abandoned humanity and just chosen to become stronger, Starlight Colony would not have become what it is now.”

“…….”

“No matter what choices those born here make, the independent choices made by humans themselves have been respected. Even when they left, saying they had no future in the colony, I continued to send them off with a smile.”

“Have you learned to be human, or do you want to become human?”

“I am learning and am still in the understanding and studying stage. So…”

Chairman Yggdrasil snapped his fingers.

“The fact that there are people who do this also helps us understand humans.”

“…….”

Inside the basement.

All the space pirates in the shelter are trapped in a rectangular ether coffin.

With their hands crossed in the shape of an

“Following the cloud instructor’s suggestion, we implemented the [Brain Mattress] task. You can’t hide it. As many as 2,000 prisoners suddenly disappeared.”

“It is not the person who proposed it, but public opinion may be a little excited.”

“Yes. This is literally close to ‘brainwashing’.”

This is an action that deserves criticism.

Suppressing human freedom, coercing human behavior, and labeling people like slaves and manipulating them to benefit us can clearly be ethically problematic.

Ethically.

“But that’s only when you ask for their own ‘permission’, right?”

Chairman Yggdrasil twitched the corner of his mouth sarcastically.

“The person concerned says they don’t like it, so wouldn’t they have no choice but to ship it to space? Or pay compensation for the liberation of prisoners. Hehehe….”

“I will compensate you well.”

If they are at least soldiers from the Taurus Colony, they may be transferred on humanitarian grounds in accordance with the Zodiac Charter and the Space Convention.

But they are space pirates.

Since they are members of the ‘Black Nose Hair’ pirates who go around killing people, there will be very few people who will pay compensation and take them with them.

“Chairman. Do you know what I truly feared from the Chairman?”

“Fear me?”

“Yes.”

“Did you suggest using the Brain Mattress to use them as space marines for our Starlight Colony…as remote pilots for unmanned AS aircraft?”

Chairman Yggdrasil placed a screen on the basement wall.

On the screen, unmanned ASs that had been neutralized by the ether EMP but were activated again by Fenrir are patrolling the universe holding a gun in awkward movements.

There are objects like signals attached to some of the ether tubes, and bundles of ether detonators and tentacles extending from the signals are attached to the pirate’s head inside the tube.

today.

Approximately 100 space pirates accepted their fate and obediently took part in the defense of the colony, signing a contract to be released as freedom after serving about 3 years in prison.

They will control the aircraft in virtual reality, and will patrol and intercept only enemies or objects with unidentified signals that are determined to be ‘hostile aircraft’ for the Starlight Colony through brainwave signal analysis.

Even for smooth analysis of brain waves, the brain mattress requires the person’s head to be shaved cleanly.

This was to remove the intermediate medium to analyze brain waves more clearly, and about 100 space pirates became bald.

The remaining 1,900 people still keep their hair the same way, either because they don’t want to become slave soldiers or because they don’t want to go bald.

Still, I am afraid of Chairman Yggdrasil.

Even though I made the suggestion, this Creation Tree says he wants to understand humans and live like humans, but he doesn’t know anything about humans.

“Hehehe. You’re talking as if I’ve done something very wrong…”

or not.

“I just spread the identities of these space pirates on the space network.”

I’m learning about ‘humans’ who are more devilish than devils.

“Is there a problem?”

“…….”

“Wouldn’t it be possible for someone among parents, family members, relatives, or acquaintances to pay compensation and take the child away? A child who ran away from home became a space pirate and a brain mattress space marine in the most dangerous colony in the world.”

Chairman Yggdrasil spread three fingers.

“Only 30 million credits. For as little as the money needed to buy a car in a large colony, you can save a person’s life and have it delivered to your home by courier.”

“Isn’t this human trafficking?”

“It is fair compensation for the liberation of prisoners. We will package it with ether packaging materials and send it to your home, so of course you have to pay that much, right?”

“So are you trying to repay 5,000 trillion with the money you earned from that?”

“It may not be enough for new feet, but isn’t there a saying that collecting dust creates a great mountain? Hahaha.”

“…….”

I knew it.

“I don’t think anyone is the creator, but they really don’t know what the problem is.”

“The real problem?”

“Your personal information has been revealed on the Internet as a criminal, and you can even view your personal SNS through Brain Mattress. Can’t write or edit, just view.”

“It’s just my intention to somehow find my family, relatives, or acquaintances.”

The Creation Tree does not know the human heart.

“If you lived well, wouldn’t someone come to save your life with 30 million credits?”