Рамиль Латыпов - Fragment in Space life

A month of training had passed, and the strong sound of the morning siren woke them up and they woke up. The squad washed up, packed up their things, and headed for the exit. Clara couldn’t believe that she had become a soldier. But of course not an astronaut pilot, but a simple infantryman. She looked at Denis, and for the first time noticed the fear in his eyes.

“What’s wrong with you, Denis?”

“I had a dream where you were going to be killed.”

“It’s just a nightmare, don’t mind it.”

“Okay, but just promise me you’ll be careful.”

“I promise,” she said, knowing that he loved her, but she didn’t feel anything back.

And they went to the spaceship (here they were called kerkores). They sat in very comfortable, individual seats. Klara spent the entire flight in silence, listening to music from the planet of the Abandoned Singers. “It would be nice to go there” but maybe she won’t live to see better times. And in general, where we are going, according to local pilots, they are flying to a neighboring constellation called” Dragon “on a planet under the code number C-5831 (in common parlance"Tashnilovka”).

They didn’t fly long, about two hours. Then suddenly everything was quiet, they landed, and Dominguez said,’ Come on, ‘and the passageway opened. The strangest thing is that the weapons were distributed only at the exit. The weapon was such that wearing a special helmet, everyone could shoot a special laser cannon located in the ear area. The helmet reacted to pressing a finger in the opposite direction of the weapon (it’s strange why they were not given laser submachine guns or at least blasters)

After some adaptation to weapons, our friends went to the desert area of the planet (the planet was not friendly, it was all desert, but with a normal human climate and pressure, and air, and because of this was so necessary for the empire). The squad followed them.

Suddenly, Clara saw a creature standing in front of her. It was a large, three-meter-tall, strong human-like creature. But it was not clearly visible, because the fog had descended. As she got closer, she saw a gorilla-like creature holding a crossbow. Dominguez gave the order to destroy the creature and Ti Golden Eagle (one of Dominguez’s squad, the evil man) killed the creature.

Clara thought that there were only such creatures waiting for them on this planet. And so it turned out all the creatures were killed. And the Emperor’s army will have to go to another planet. The other planet was called C-200 Rectum. Klara, seeing her, said::

– “This planet resembles Myriads in beauty, with its hills and forests” (On this planet in the poles there lived creatures that tore out the guts of everyone who came near them, and in general the planet was lousy)

This time, they were also given laser blasters. And Denis joked “Now it will be possible to shoot at least someone”

And our friends and the squad went ahead (according to the pilots ' rumors, intelligent creatures lived here, who created a rich culture and powerful weapons). Clara didn’t care what kind of creature was on this planet, because she had nothing to lose. After all, if she came back, Dorn might do something else, she just wanted to see Dasha. Dominguez stood in front of the squad and began to talk about security, looking as if he was afraid or didn’t know what to expect in the future.

He said that in case of danger on this planet, weapons will not save them here, because the creatures of “drugina” (as he called them) are smarter than humans. It was the words that startled Clara. A day passed after that, but they didn’t find anyone.

On the third day, a message came from headquarters, asking everyone to come to the decisive battle near the equator. An order is an order, and they went there. The enemy’s army was very strong, they defended in rocky places. “Drugins” were similar to people with very thin, but very strong bones, with an ashen skin color and a large head in relation to the body and a height of 1.5 meters.

After two days of fighting, the humans hadn’t lost a single person. The headquarters sent a new weapon, invented by the Emperor himself, it was something extraordinary, it did not work on people, but it worked on all other enemies (According to scientists, this weapon is the most humane in the world). Denis even said, “What a smart Emperor we have” (although he was imprisoned as a political convict and he hated him). The weapon looked like a simple “Nikozino” (machine gun in Myriad). Special beams did not touch the person – this was achieved by the peculiarity of the human body (With the advent of this weapon, neither the helmet nor the laser pistol left the equipment)

Although the new gun arrived, the “drugins"were not going to give up. The fifth day of the battle passed, but there was no long-awaited victory. Word spread through the trenches that the Emperor was personally coming to inspect. They began to lay carpets everywhere, distributed new parade uniforms, forced everyone to clean ships and cut down trees, so that the Emperor would have a place to put his camping tent.

And he came in a big interuniversity battleship. He descended the ramp to the cheers and applause of cheering soldiers, propaganda working well and many brainwashed. The emperor looked very handsome, dressed all in white, with a very strong gaze that made people both feel calm and fearful.

The emperor said – " My valiant warriors! We have started the biggest war in the universe, the annexation of planets. And we will not back down at the very beginning of it. Can a handful of drugins stop us?” The ruler’s gaze fell on Klara, who was standing in the first row, she was very different from everyone else in her beauty (there were many girls in the army, but not one can compare with her). The blue military dress uniform was very becoming to her, and blue high-heeled shoes completed the beautiful look.

Without another word, he took up his weapons and flew to conquer this planet. He agreed with all the leaders of the’ drugina ‘to hold a referendum, bribing the nobility. Drugins will pay taxes peacefully and have some autonomy. The Emperor flew away, and our friends stood with their mouths hanging open, not knowing what to say. What they saw was impossible.

Klara and Denis went to the headquarters, where they were told that they were going on tomorrow. They were not surprised and went to the barracks, where they had to spend the night together in a separate room for couples. And in the morning go to the planet “Gippersun” (According to the newspaper “Emperor in the people” says that on the planet “Gippersun” troops will not meet any resistance)

When they woke up, they washed up and ate “grikuni” (something that resembles the shape and taste of potatoes). Klara noticed that the squad was excited because Hun (one of our friends ' squad) had heard on the radio about the losses of the Imperial Army. (The newspapers reported that army soldiers were being forced to kill all their enemies. On the “Islands”, the Emperor allowed freedom of printing and freedom of speech, but of course up to a certain limit, which was handled by the propaganda service). Dominguez, knowing that people would be worried, asked the headquarters for bulletproof vests for the entire squad. And only then did they agree to fly. (But a bulletproof vest won’t help in battle, it only calmed people down morally)

In the early years, the empire was only a union of the planets Myriad and Mars, and eventually the Emperor began to colonize their spiral constellation “Islands”. Having conquered the entire constellation, the Emperor stopped and began to develop the economy, morality, and well-being of citizens. And by the time Clara was born, that plan had been fulfilled. The plan contained the construction of a material circle, at the top of the circle the upper class, at the bottom the middle class. The plan included a program to eliminate the lower class, but don’t worry, elimination is when every unemployed person was given a job and every homeless person was able to live a better life. This plan was called “new life,” as the Emperor called it, but who he was, that was a question that time had decided on their planets. Many people have seen the Emperor, but you can’t remember him for long. In the beginning, all the free systems were sent messages about the treaty, about the unauthorized entry into the empire by referendum and the introduction of special units of the “purple boys”. And some of them responded positively.