Free Sojourn Sol (Eternal Sol) by Morgan Landsbury Page B

that's what happened.
     
    A dozen other little guys climbed on top of her, as she made her way over to the man to tell him what was going on. Then, all of a sudden, he blew up, along with the rest of his complex and she was thrown back onto the sand. Many of the children ran, but quite a few of them hid on her as best as they could. Their parents could already be dead, and she would have to find a way to make sure that they were safe. They were looking to her for guidance, but she was in such a strange place that she wasn't sure she could give it to them.
     

Chapter 14
     
    Tamil couldn't possibly have imagined the mistake he made when he joined the military, and there was never any way that he could take it back. It was sad, but once again, he was a slave with a crown on his head, walking the halls of the Main Aster Station to load his ship up with a weapon that could wipe out a specie's entire existence.
     
    They said it was uninhabited when they came and gave him the mission, but he knew better, now he was being forced into killing off an entire species, and there was no way for it to be stopped. He had been thinking for quite some time as to how he would handle a situation such as this. If it came down to it, he knew that he would have to pull the trigger, but he was a determined man, far more determined than anyone he'd ever met before.
     
    He was walking mechanically down a black metal walkway, towards the entrance to the holding pen for the most extreme weapons known to mankind, solar charges. These weapons were meant to drive a star into overdrive, causing it to burn its energy in a matter of minutes and causing a supernova, a shock wave that would destroy everything in the system.
     
    He entered the room where the weapons were held and held onto the hover while he was transported into his ship, one of the finest weapons ships in the galaxy, which they had named the Ragnarok. He would be given enough will to power the ship then he would be forced to pull the trigger. They weren't taking any chances, and as he sat down at the front console, he realized that he couldn't allow this to happen.
     
    He thought back to his training, which was gave him the ability to control his motor cortex, which was being effected by the slave crown. He didn't have a way to focus his body, but he could focus his mind. He didn't have a way to relax muscles, though, and that was the most integral part of the process. All he could do was try and trick his mind into thinking he had entered the trance and hope that it would work.
     
    The ship had already jumped and he was sitting light-years away from the star, but he was still close enough to see it clearly through the dimmed screen. There were planets—inhabited ones—in front of him, and he wasn't going to be able to stop himself from destroying them.
     
    A red signal came on  his ocular console. Henny was there with him, but he couldn't answer. All he could do was watch while his finger moved towards the trigger. His hand was shaking. He closed his mind and told himself that he could stop it, that he had control, and for a second, his finger started quivering, but it wasn't enough. He was forced to give into the urge and keep moving. He pressed the tiny button on his console and watched while the black square filled with explosives came out of the front airlock and made its way towards the sun. It would only take a few minutes for the charge to go off and when it did, everything in the system would be dead.
     
    He felt a tiny tear falling down his cheeks, and when his will finally returned, he fell on the floor screaming. “Why!?”
     
    He wasn't evil. He wasn't cruel. He'd protected the only people he'd ever loved, and he would never allow them to come to harm, not like this. This couldn't happen. He had to stop it, but he couldn't. If he used one of the ship's weapons, the charge would go off and kill him too. He had to leave. He couldn't see this any longer. He interfaced