In an unknown star field,

a brilliant civilization stands on a certain life star. It is hard to tell that this is a civilization established by a group of defeated soldiers.

Looking at his colleagues in the conference room, Sheers was full of emotion. He couldn't help but recall the war in the two hundred years of the Federation. How terrifying the enemy was. The extremely powerful Glory Federation collapsed in a very short time, and dozens of life stars fell one after another.

And all the people present were cowards and deserters. None of them broke out from the battlefield, but escaped from the battlefield in advance to survive.

They were originally high-ranking officials of the Federation, born in noble families, and were assigned by their families to guard the colonized planets. When they learned that their mother planet had completely disappeared, their strong confidence was instantly disintegrated, and they were afraid.

So they ignored the pleading of the local governor, took the family wealth and tribesmen, and fled the colonized planet. Moreover, they did not dare to go to other colonized planets, but fled to the depths of the universe.

The Glory Federation also has survival bases on many planets in the universe, which are used to develop resources. Many planets have no life, but have resources. They call them resource stars.

However, Shears did not flee to these resource stars, but came to this life star. This resource star has not been registered in the Federation, because it belongs to the private property of the Glory Federation Interstellar Exploration Group. Only a few senior executives know this secret. It happens that the Shears family is one of the major shareholders of this group and also knows this secret.

Shears was the first to arrive here. Later, several refugee teams came one after another, as well as the people and supplies they brought back from some resource stars.

After counting, they found that there were only more than 500,000 people of the Federation who arrived here, less than 600,000, and only more than 100 starships.

The only thing that reassured them was that there was a dust belt that was more than ten light years long in the direction of the Federation from this life star. This dust belt concealed their existence, and even quantum communication would be obstructed.

"Shears, what are you thinking about?"

Just as Shears was reminiscing about the past, a voice woke him up.

"Nothing, are all the people here?"

"Yes, all thirteen elders are here."

"Then let's get started."

Shears nodded. The old parliament was cancelled. They didn't want to let the three hundred and sixty members argue with each other anymore. However, the full-time hegemony obviously could not convince the educated people of the Federation, so they set up an elders' council, and the thirteen elders decided the fate of all of them.

"The eighty-sixth elders' meeting begins. Today's topic is whether to avenge the Federation."

Shears looked at everyone and said. This topic was repeated for the thirty-sixth time.

Before the fiftieth elders' meeting, they were united in sincerity. They were afraid that the enemies would find this place, so in the previous topics, their theme was development and security.

Among their more than 500,000 federal survivors, there are about 200,000 women. They are entrusted with the important task of childbearing and inheritance. Every woman will continue to get pregnant and give birth in the following days. The technology of the Federation can protect them from the side effects of childbirth.

But this was still not enough. They broke through the ethical restrictions of the Federation and used artificial means to reproduce. In the two hundred years of the Federation, their population increased from more than 500,000 to 80 million, and it was still increasing rapidly. With the

increase in population, the glorious technology of the Federation also reappeared here, and even went a step further than the Federation, because they found the civilization that they once believed to be God.

Although those gods did not want to see them, they gave them divine revelations, making their technology more powerful than the Federation. With

the powerful technology, many people's self-confidence returned, so some elders proposed that they wanted revenge, revenge for the Federation, and take back everything they once had.

The thirteen elders should have produced a result in one meeting, but the revenge faction and the survival faction each accounted for six people, and He Sheers abstained every time, so that the same topic had been held for thirty-six meetings.

"I still advocate the same as before. As citizens of the Federation, we must avenge the Federation, our families, relatives, and friends, and we must take back everything.

We have the strength because God is watching us, God has mercy on us, they will help us..."

"I have the same opinion as before, our main task now is survival, survival is the first priority of civilization. In the past, the Federation had more than 50 life planets and trillions of Federation citizens but failed to defeat the enemy. We now have only 80 million people. How can we take revenge? This is suicide, this is to sever the inheritance of the Federation..."

"Shut up, you damn bastard, the legendary ancestors of your Smith family died on the mother planet, don’t you want revenge? How come your Smith family has produced a coward like you? You are indeed not of noble blood..."

"Mal, please understand the occasion, this is the Council of Elders..."

In less than five minutes, the two parties who had originally expressed their views became like shrews swearing in the street, and the elders from different camps began to attack each other's person. Sheles watched this scene helplessly, deeply worried about his own future. Can such a group really restore the glory of the Federation?

Sheles didn't want to listen to their boring abuse anymore, and quickly cast his abstention vote, which ended the meeting early.

After the meeting, Sheles walked out of the Council of Elders, returned to his residence, took out his smart computer to surf the Internet, and there was a lot of noise on the Internet, but among the comments on the Internet, the survivalists had the upper hand.

Because most of their survivors were former nobles, he Their life span is very long. They have all experienced wars. Many people have witnessed how the robber federal fleet was destroyed by a terrifying creature. The enemy has broken their courage, and they no longer have the courage to fight the enemy.

So they think that the most important task at the moment is survival. Survival is the first priority of civilization. Only those who survive can be the winners. As for revenge, it should be left to future generations.

Their cowardly behavior also affected many people. They were also frightened by the monsters described. They asked the Elders to use resources to explore new life planets so that they can stay away from those monsters. After all, the nearest place to the former colony planet of the Glory Federation is less than 3,000 light years away, which is too close.

"These cowards,"

Shears cursed after reading the public opinion on the Internet.

However, he collapsed on the chair like a deflated ball, because he was also a coward. If he was brave, it would not be an abstention vote.

This is where he contradicts himself. On the one hand, he despises his cowardice and thinks he should be a brave warrior of the Federation, used to fire at the enemy. On the other hand, he thinks the enemy is too strong. If they rashly start a war, they will lose. They are already the last people of the Federation. The responsibility of inheriting the Federation lies on them. They should not die so easily.

In the evening, after Shears was busy, he came to a temple in the city. The Glory Federation has a temple. They also experienced the period of ignorance and felt that there was an omnipotent God.

But later, the Federation went to the interstellar, and technology became more and more advanced. Many mythical things were replaced by technology. This belief changed, and the temple became an area for daily cultural activities.

But when they fled here, the temple took on a new meaning, because they began to crave the appearance of God again. They needed to imagine an omnipotent and powerful God to guide them, so that they could defeat those terrifying creatures and gain a little sense of security.

This was originally just a spiritual sustenance, but what they didn't expect was that God really appeared. It was God who took the initiative to contact them. He had never appeared before, but he had always been in contact with the top leaders. It was a one-sided contact. God gave them a lot of technology, which made their current technological level higher than before.

Sheers came to the temple and began to cry to God as usual. He talked endlessly about the difficulties and various pains of their group of people at the moment, hoping that God could help them again, make them stronger, let them ignore the threats of terrifying creatures, and live freely and happily in the world.