"THE soldier whom I gave the evidence to, smiled at me and told me that I did a good job. He led me to a room, telling me to wait while he called his superior. I remembered suddenly smelling something wrong. I lost consciousness and the next thing I knew, I was already being shipped to a mining planet together with other criminals."
Emmy gasped in surprise. Although she already suspected that something along those lines would happen, she didn't expect that those people would actually send a ten-year-old child to a mining planet.
Mining planets were planets rich in energy spars but had very harsh living conditions. The Empire usually sent criminals there to atone for their crimes by mining energy spars. Most criminals who were sent to mining planets either ended up spending the rest of their days there or they simply ended up dying. And that soldier didn't even hesitate to send a ten-year-old there.