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Chapter 32: Expedition to the Three-Body Star System
Imperial soldiers, encased in powered exoskeletons and bearing weapons that hummed with barely-contained energy, advanced through the ETO stronghold with methodical precision. The traitors' resistance crumbled like parchment before flame.
The engagement proved brutally one-sided. Bodies littered the corridors where they had fallen, their weapons useless against the transhuman efficiency of the Emperor's chosen.
The surviving ETO leadership knelt in a circle of Imperial steel, trembling before their captors like penitents before the Throne.
Thomas Vader approached through the carnage, his matte-black armor bearing the scars of recent combat. His respirator's mechanical rhythm gave his voice an inhuman quality as he surveyed the prisoners.
Among them, he recognized a familiar face.
Cheng Xin bore the marks of rough handling—her features bloodied, one leg bound where a las-round had found its mark. Yet she lived, which was what mattered for interrogation purposes.
"Cheng. How the mighty have fallen."
Vader's tone carried the cold satisfaction of a hunter who had finally cornered his prey.
Cheng Xin raised her head, recognition dawning in her swollen eyes. Blood traced paths down her cheeks from where Imperial discipline had been applied.
"Vader?" The name emerged as barely a whisper.
The soldiers who had taken this facility bore the Thought Steel Seal—their loyalty to the Emperor absolute, their dedication to humanity's survival uncompromising. They showed no mercy to species-traitors, as was appropriate.
Vader had not witnessed their methods personally, but the results spoke for themselves.
"I trust they left your mind intact. That would be... unfortunate otherwise."
He stood before her like an avatar of Imperial justice, the red glow of his plasma saber's dormant emitters casting hellish shadows across his features.
"Did you orchestrate this?" Cheng Xin gestured weakly at the corpses surrounding them. "Command these pawns to slaughter innocents?"
"War recognizes no innocence," Vader replied with the certainty of one who had embraced that truth long ago. "If you believed these conspirators innocent, you should have remained in your comfortable delusions."
Despite her injuries, defiance flickered in Cheng Xin's eyes. "I fight to preserve humanity. To protect the peace that could exist between our species."
Vader retrieved a lho-stick from his armor's utility pouch, inhaling its acrid scent before responding.
"By conducting terrorist operations? Creating civilian casualties? Painting invaders as victims?" His voice carried decades of accumulated contempt. "Your methods betray your true loyalties."
"You understand nothing of the universe's darkness," Cheng Xin said, straightening despite her pain. "Humanity and the Trisolaran Civilization share a common fate now."
"Ah. The Dark Forest." Vader's laugh held no warmth. "You speak as though this revelation carries weight."
Surprise registered across her battered features. "You know of it?"
Vader tapped his temple where the Thought Steel Seal's neural interface lay hidden beneath armor plating.
"All senior Imperial officials have been briefed. Luo Ji shared his theories with His Majesty, who deemed us worthy of that knowledge."
"Then you know the danger!" Cheng Xin's voice cracked with desperate hope. "Why provoke a war between civilizations when the stakes are so absolute?"
"I must correct a fundamental error in your reasoning," Vader said, his tone growing colder still. "This war was initiated by the Trisolaran Civilization."
"Their arrogance when victory seemed assured—none who witnessed it shall forget. Now, sensing defeat, they feign desire for peace."
"Do you recall their first public communication? 'You are bugs.' After that pronouncement, silence. They watched humanity's terror and despair with the detachment of scientists observing laboratory specimens."
Cheng Xin turned away, unwilling to engage with truths that challenged her convictions.
"Will you execute me now, Vader? Present my corpse to your master as proof of your competence?"
"Death comes later," Vader replied. "All significant ETO collaborators will be detained until humanity's victory is complete. Then you will be transported to the ruins of Trisolaris for final judgment."
"You will fail," she whispered. "Resistance will endure. When the Dark Forest's truth spreads, the people will reject this war."
"They will tear you apart as they did Rey Diaz."
Vader waited for her words to fade before delivering his response.
"Do you imagine this remains the era of sophon surveillance and human helplessness?"
"The Empire controls all information networks. Data requires Imperial approval before dissemination. If His Majesty deems the Dark Forest theory unsuitable for public consumption, no effort of yours will spread it."
"Dictatorial madmen!" The curse tore from Cheng Xin's throat.
Vader's amusement only deepened at her rage and frustration. Her powerlessness provided him with genuine satisfaction.
"Allow me to share additional intelligence," he continued. "The mother and child you encountered the day Sakyamuni recruited you—that was entirely orchestrated."
"The ETO understood your psychological profile perfectly. They crafted that scene specifically to manipulate your emotions."
"Did you feel righteousness when you joined their cause? Did you believe yourself a protector of innocence and beauty?"
"You were always a weapon—nothing more. 'The Girl Who Owned the Stars Opposes Human Tyranny.' Such compelling propaganda."
"Your actions were not born of love, but of stupidity masquerading as virtue. You murdered every person who believed in your fabricated nobility."
Vader gestured toward a young woman's corpse nearby.
"Observe. Seventeen years old. Three days from her eighteenth birthday."
"She died because of you. Your willingness to accept transparent lies cost her everything. If you had exercised even basic critical thinking, none of these believers would have followed you to destruction."
The words struck Cheng Xin like physical blows. Her body shook as if gripped by palsy, tears threatening to overwhelm her composure despite her efforts.
Vader savored her anguish. Death was mere mercy—true retribution lay in the destruction of everything one held sacred.
Cheng Xin would not die quickly. She would witness the Trisolaran Civilization's annihilation first, understanding fully the consequences of her betrayal.
This was justice. This was the price of treason against one's own species.
The ETO and its resistance cells, despite Trisolaran technological support, proved insufficient against Imperial might and popular loyalty. The masses, having endured the Great Ravine's horrors, possessed no appetite for alien promises.
They chose the Emperor's certainty over the aliens' false hope of coexistence.
Under combined Imperial and civilian pressure, the remaining conspirators fell quickly. Their attempts to disseminate the Dark Forest theory died stillborn, strangled by information controls that rendered their efforts meaningless.
With internal threats eliminated, the Human Empire entered a period of unprecedented expansion. Lunar colonies flourished. Martian settlements grew from outposts to cities. The entire Solar System became humanity's domain.
Void-fortresses materialized in the darkness between worlds—silent guardians armed with weapons capable of cracking continents.
Shipyards operated without pause, their foundries birthing vessels that would carry Imperial wrath across the stars.
War engines of terrible beauty took shape in the vacuum, each one a testament to humanity's evolved capacity for organized violence.
Quantum sensing arrays spread throughout human space, their signals forming the Kunlun Mirror detection grid. No alien approach would go unnoticed.
Humanity began screening nearby systems for threats and opportunities. Extinction protocols stood ready—viral payloads and cyclonic weaponry prepared to sterilize any world that harbored enemies of mankind.
The Trisolaran Civilization watched this transformation with growing desperation. Their initial plan—fighting until defeat became inevitable, then broadcasting both civilizations' coordinates to trigger universal destruction—seemed increasingly hollow as human capabilities multiplied beyond their comprehension.
When mysterious technologies appeared on human vessels—innovations that surpassed even Trisolaran understanding—the aliens tasted the same helplessness they had once inflicted upon humanity.
Finally, through their remaining sophons within the Solar System, they requested negotiations.
"Peaceful coexistence remains possible. Non-aggression between our peoples. Should humanity persist in its aggressive intentions, both civilizations' coordinates will be transmitted throughout the galaxy."
The Emperor's response consisted of four words that shattered Trisolaran hopes:
"Humanity fears no consequences."
The reply carried such absolute certainty that it drove their society toward complete despair.
Human expansion continued unabated. When the First Fleet achieved operational status and prepared for the expedition to Trisolaris itself, the Emperor received notification of His achievements.
"Fate Node altered by 30%. Acquired: Two-Dimensional Foil Technology, Dead Line Technology, Dimensional Reversal Technology."
"Our work here reaches its conclusion, Big Guy," the Raven observed from his perch. "Thirty percent alteration—the predetermined fate lies in complete ruins."
The Emperor nodded slowly, His golden gaze fixed upon the stars. "This reality's humanity has achieved maturity. The time for departure has come."
"Yet I shall return when circumstances permit. When that day arrives, the Human Empires of both realities will unite as one."
"All of humanity, across every dimension of existence, shall stand together beneath a single banner. Such is our species' ultimate destiny among the stars."
His words carried the weight of prophecy, spoken by one who had guided mankind from Terra's ashes to galactic dominion. In this reality, as in countless others, humanity would claim its rightful inheritance.
The dark forest of the cosmos would burn in the light of unbreakable human will.
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