The Futility Wars

by Magnus Thollander

  There were still plenty of room on this planet and everyone still lived in houses and flied around in special highways in the sky to get where they wanted, a few people even lived in the forest. Ricardo and Redmond had even put in a request to hunt deer and when they realized they had to basically clone one to hunt it they turned it down, A life was important and making something to just kill it was a shame, he rather cloned a dog that would be his companion forever if he did not leave constantly to train and give orders.

  The door swung open and Zhang burst into the room gun drawn and fired upon the bodyguard in the corner, He dodged the incoming bullets and twisted his elbow into the face of the person behind him, he smashed his nose in and quickly side stepped the incoming plasma bolt hitting the person behind instead, he lept toward the desk and fired a salvo destroyed the attacker. He surveyed the room and heard shouting in the distance and footsteps coming up behind him, he pulled out a switch and flipped it the staircase was now a pile of rubble collapsing on the unsuspecting soldiers. He darted into the office and saw the safe he fired a few shots on the side to melt the locking mechanism and it worked, he was glad he had a state-of-the-art plasma gun given to him by Richard. It was beyond his old weapon, He looked into the safe and pulled the paper documents and data storage devices into his bag and then switched his armor to space mode, he set a explosive against the hull and blew it away he was anchored to the metal plates along the wall until the pressure released, he slowly unhooked himself and lept out the hole toward the cargo ship waiting for him, he slowly drifted into the hangar, and he controlled himself to land on the deck and lock himself in to the floor.

  "I'm set! Go! Go!" he yelled into his coms, then cargo ship pulled away from the station without the enemy being any wiser, He had completed the first part of his mission, and he was now going to find the enemy that tried to strike his new master. This was his goal and the goal of everyone in his employ for now and forever. Richard read the data packet that was sent by Zhang and his agents working to solve his mystery, and he was chilled at the coordination that targeted him and his family, he was surprised that anyone would go to this far to just put some pressure on his brother, This was beyond a conspiracy this was now too big for him, and he had to contact his brother for a solution. He had put a request to move down to Paradise with his entire family and a massive fleet would pick him up when he was ready, He sent a communication across the galaxy to summon any child and relative back to the station for a emergency meeting. He expected them to take a few months to arrive, and he set a deadline for 8 months forward, that was his limit if they did not come he would abandon them out here or just tell them to head to the south when they were ready, for the galaxy was not a nice place.

  He looked at the document and the headline "CLONE PROJECT" and shook his head, He did not want to be the spark of another galactic war, but he was going to be, but he had to protect his family, and he had to live in the south to keep himself safe until his brother solved this dilemma for him and that would take years considering the cloak and dagger of Zhang and his agents, This was a mission that would take decades to solve, He shook his head and walked into his golden Jacuzzi to relax.

  Eight Months Later.

  S-4XN-001 battle fleet and colonization ships arrived outside Richard's station for a massive pickup of personell, several billions worth of people were going to be transferred to Paradise, and he was surprised at the amount of people that greeted him as uncle or grandfather. They slowly hauled their goods and belongings onto the colonization ships, while drones were starting to dismantle the station and nearby defenses. No sense in wasting millions of tons of good A1 infused metals to just house a few humans not related to him, He did not feel much when he saw their faces and their mannerism, but he had to do this because he was blood in a former life, He had to keep a connection to his family, but he did not know why or why he cared about that. He was introduced to Zhang, and they talked about the documents and data they had collected, he would continue this investigation himself, but he already had several thousands of corporations and individuals on his kill list that would be revealed when the finally dragged in the net and found the truth completly, and he knew earth was the center of it with their massive corporate structure, Sol was the birthplace and all corporations had their origins there no matter how far they stretched out in the galaxy.

  Zhang was now known to the conspirators he guessed since he broke into that station and gathered the Intel, he requested to lead the effort behind the scenes and it was accepted several new agents and old agents connected up, and he had now a massive Sol intelligence group that nobody knew existed, he read their files and were surprised at the moles already installed into the federation and several corporations, Seems the lure of Paradise was the ultimate prize. He also had unlimited communication access and several decades worth of saved conversations between anyone and everyone that passed through the spy satellites, He had blackmail for years, and he was surprised at this warriors access to anything that communicated he already set up a station on the colonization ship and had several of his agents to directly look at their next target through security cameras installed in the houses and streets nearby, They had full audio and video surveliance, and they were surprised at the spy sate lies that could directly monitor earth with pinpoint accuracy and constantly keep track of a target as long as it was painted with a special tracker that was digested and untraceable, They got to work and monitor their movements and people they talked too in real time, They would solve this mystery and get everyone connected to the conspiracy in either a prison for the rest of their lives or just a bullet in the back of their heads.

  Richard led his children and grandchildren into the colonization ship, and they kept clamoring that the ball pit was not as big as they liked, He wanted to spank them for their spoiled behaviour, and he led them to the park area to play with their accompanying dogs and kittens that followed loyalty behind, The kids screamed and yelled to the park and the dogs follow quickly behind wanting to play in the grass. Richard walked up to the floor overlooking the park and just sat down and relaxed by himself, he saw his wives and children playing and setting up tables of food like a family outing, he knew this move was because of a bigger fish in the galaxy encroaching on his family for some nefarious goal he could not panthom, but he had to keep him and his family safe, he already watched two of them get killed while his brother tracked down the footage, both shot dead pointblank and then tossed out a airlock not before they both were scraped on blood, skin cells and bone marrow samples. He was angry when looked at the footage, and he wanted to set the galaxy on fire after this display of savagery, he guessed they had wanted to clone him and his family to trick his brother into giving technological or economical advantages, Money would mean nothing if they got caught and their families and loved ones would be killed.

  And he wanted them killed all of them, He took out the old tear stained picture from his pocket and just stared before putting it back, it hurt him too much to know they both died because of him. S-4XN-001 looked over the stations extremely quick dismantling while the now new citizens were aboard his colonization ship, He would leave the system in two days while it completed, He was requested by several people from the north to sell the station or leave it for everyone else, he denied all the requests, and he already had dismantled all the nearby structures. He left his trading station active in the north but it was just a minor stop and not a big thing like in the south or in Sol, This was just an afterthought to transfer what little minerals he made in the north down to the south, The station had paid for its construction and operational income every year but it was not a big hit, Most people traded ores to the northern warriors instead of him, that had been a common trend and only the central was more about profit than common brotherhood, He had no stations in the west or east, but he did not care.

  His brother left the north and so would his trading station in time. He already announced it that he would come back and d
ismantle it in a year and that everyone on the station should find new employment or transfer to the south or central trading station. This station was 100% employee only with a few hotel rooms instead of permanent living. Many of his employees had taken up the offer and were set for leaving in a years time. He would direct them to Seyla to handle, Else he would not have even offered them a new employment. He was still not happy about the going on in the southern populations they were still taking more than giving back, and that was a problem that had plagued him since the first human settler in his corner of the galaxy.Seyla had lessened the symptoms by now handling all communications and requests and denying them constantly she was now the bad guy keeping the population leashed to a new reality, no more wants without giving something back.

  She had absolved the free credits every month and now just made food and housing free, if they wanted something other than just food and housing they had to work for it. Most people had a stockpile of credits, and they would slowly grind it down to zero in time. This was her first plan to curtail the wasteful behaviour in the Paradise system.Seyla had now established the first drone production plant in the Paradise system, and they were now officially mining the asteroid field among his drones, He noticed most of them were human operated connected to simulation, it increased the productivity to be almost on par with him, but a human could not work forever so no matter how tiny improvements there were he was in the lead always. He could see the path forward for the humans in some limited sense it was not enough for his liking, but she was making it better and that's what counted for now. His mineral gains from the war and the subsequent clean up in the east was close to 200-240 billion worth of ships and factories, He had "stolen" several billion worth of drones and battleships directly from the east sector when he sniped the warriors and just uploaded himself as the new master when a warrior consciousness was no longer connected, He had made a killing according to an old saying.

  He was now the undisputed master of the galaxy, and he was now nicknamed the South Emperor from all the news station and that seemed to have stuck since everyone now simply referred to him as the southern emperor whenever they spoke about him, he guessed it was easier than to say "that warrior" or the "southern warrior" S-4XN-001 was quite a lounge twister to remember for the humans, He did not use Matthias anymore except when talking with his family, which he rarely did he only spoke to Richard about the situation haunting his family, and he would put the competent agents on it that he had cultivated throughout the galaxy, The Zhang fellow was competent enough to solve this instead of him poking around and wasting time, he had already collected a list of people instantly that were on notice and given it to Zhang to solve and sift through to find the connections beyond. The list was now about 85.000 people and corporations connected to Sol, He was shocked at the amount of people coordinating to strike against him without using a single bullet or having a single fleet to contest him this was a new type of warfare that he did not enjoy, He wanted to bash fleet against fleet, not hiding in the shadows and trying to move the opponent with coin and words.

  S-4XN-001 had now decided it was time to expand to massive proportions nobody would contest him in at least a hundred years while the rest of the milky way council was paying him every year, He would use his years of immunity to bring his territory and production to new unchangeable limits, and he started with expand his territory from 2000 to 20.000. It was an over extension that was undependable in the short term, but in 100 years he could solidify the system with defenses. He got started immediately and half the drones from his 2000 territories and battleships spread out and started to mine and colonize another 2000 systems, he would leap frog every year grabbing another 2000 systems until he reached the 20.000 goal. Then he would make it solid with fortresses and defenses that kept it completely safe against any enemy ship in the milky way, the futility would break it eventually and that was just another problem to solve in time, and he had time for now.

  Year 2440, Sol. Lux Corporation Star Base

  There were only rubble left in the system after S-4XN-001 fleet of 10 billion ships struck, He was now striking several systems that were connected to the conspiracy to clone his brother and family for the true key he already solved so long ago, He was happy with this little gain of material. The Cloning technology was advanced in itself, and he could fill the blanks and complete it, He improved it already, and he was now confident in his cloning technology. It increased his yield of meat manufacturing with a few percentages but that was several millions of tons increment so it was a good yield, he had some plans with this cloning research to expand it to the limit. He thought a biological body was a hindrance and this research proved that he could go a little further beyond, perhaps make something better than the old him. He had already made a connector that would be inserted in the brain that would link his physical body with his warrior "body". He could be a warrior and a human at the same time, But this was not the time to experiment now he had to kill the traitorous warriors.The pleads of surrender was not accepted, and his human soldiers were engaging several space stations and nations on earth to kill the co-conspirators he had a list, and he was checking of the twelve million people connected in this massive web that had spanned for 100 years.

  He had already published the list and their crimes to every warrior and news broadcaster in the galaxy. And he also broadcast that he had uploaded a fix to the True Key over hundred years ago hidden in his data packet about the radar and missile defense, The other warriors was horrified at the weakness and were thankful, but they were more afraid than ever. Nobody wanted to become a slave. Several warriors now spent most of their time going through their internal codes and several systems went "dark" in a sense. They stopped production and micro managing to double check everything, The northern representative thanked S-4XN-001 officially and Seeder also thanked him for showing him he also was bound by a true key, The aliens were inferior now and S-4XN-001 had his confirmation a long time ago but this cemented it, Their thinking were rigid and inventive, He figured the shells and the other technology were not their own, that they were following the first pioneer race that fought the futility or perhaps somewhere out there is still fighting it to a standstill and hoping we trim their numbers, so they have a fighting chance, perhaps they were part of the convoy but S-4XN-001 doubted it. He felt he was now the torch carrying the flame, fighting for every galaxy. He had to become strong enough to fight the futility, and he knew he might have to make a human body to increase his "imagination", His technology was stuck and his portal ship were several years out from the black hole in the center of the galaxy, He could only see dark matter and anti-matter as the next step, but he knew there must be something beyond the A1,B2,C3 elements. Something he could graps, but he had no path forward, But he would now end these few systems and then go back to figure it out. He had an eternity ahead of him, this was just a pebble on the road.

  Seyla stood on her new planet "Dream". It was a temporary name but this piece of rock that was the size of twelve Earths, The gravity was just a little higher, but she had asked that he terraform it and mine out all the minerals and then deposit it on the planet for her use, She would have not believed it before but now that she saw a planet mined out in a year, and then transformed into a habitable zone within two. She would now take on the biggest undertaking and the first and final cog in her plan, colonize, build and then expand with their own resources and technology from this point. She had enough blueprints and designs donated to her for this undertaking, and she was ready, She motioned the crew to begin, and she cut the cord on the ribbon connected between two trees, She saw countless human controlled drones and MEC walking about laying a foundation to her people.

  The humans that were willing to sacrifice.Yui walked up behind her and said "This is beyond anything we ever done, are you sure we can do this? Are you sure we can change peoples mind?" Seyla smiled and knelt on the ground and picked up a flower.

  "Sis, You have seen the peop
le coming from across the sector and you have felt it too. It's a new beginning here. People are ready to settle in, and take on a duty. If the people outside the sector knew about the Paradise system they would immediately rush here not caring about the billions of battleships blocking the way. This is what people have always wanted since Earth was no longer available. Humans are meant to be free and spread their wings across the community, countries and now the galaxy. When space is limited we limit ourselves to tiny houses, and we live our lives on the net because we are too depressed to step outside into the cold metal corridors on a space station. This is the future, and if they want to be a part of it they got to work for it they got to show they WANT it." Seyla said.

  "Recruit the families from all the trading stations and re-hire new employees to take up their positions let's keep cycle going to weed out the worthless. We will bring their loved ones and children, and they will start to work when they grow older. Recruit talent from across the galaxy if we cannot find it on our stations, especially fighter pilots and soldiers. We need to expand, train and then transfer the military to him. I have put them on so many tasks and done what i can to convince him to use them, and he will take the reins. He will have the greatest ground army and the best fighter fleet in the galaxy."

  Yui escorted the new people to the trading station while the majority evacuated to the new undertaking, Her sister had need of a massive amount of managers skilled in logistics to help calculate and spread the resources evenly so there was enough to get them off the ground, The space elevator was completed and resources came down steadily with their on planetary resources, She had elected to build a city first with apartments instead of single homes, there had been major complaints from the "homeowners" but she quelled it instantly that this was supposed to be the only city on the planet, that majority of trade were going to happen. The rest was to be shared into population, food creation and recreation.