Abraham Kepler breaks orbit that evening, headed for a Penal Colony in a nearby system's asteroid belt. The Central Authority has decided that their numbers are simply too low for what comes next, so they are picking up reinforcement infantry.
Everyone in that sort of Orbital Prison is serving a life sentence of hard labor, there are no innocents and almost as many decent human beings. But with the proper application of advanced technology, they can still serve the Empire.
The prison numbers almost a million inmates, and Command has ordered a tenth of their numbers be reviewed for rehabilitation. No traitors or child abusers will be considered, but The Abraham Kepler is most likely about to get a hundred thousand murderers and cowards added to their ranks.
