Move, move, move , one of the pirates was commanding, the prisoners including kitera was being moved to the next ship , when they crossed over to the Carmines ship, the saw different aliens of the carmine race of different colors and sizes , the were turning visible and invisible this was a characteristics of their race it was why they were very successful in their trades they could become untraceable and so could any of their tech they were the masters of stealth, the women and children were been moved to a hall where the aliens were seated different equipments , artworks and the captured were about to be auctioned here before they will be taken back and resold, the carmine race ran the biggest smuggling and raiding in multiple sectors they stole from everyone and sold to everyone your sister can be sold back to you as far as you are the highest bidder.
When kitera was passing the door he thought he will be made a grunt worker in the engines like the rest of the male slaves but the pirate leading them called him you enter here, he was led into the auction hall , his chances of escaping and returning back to his family was reducing , he face darkened, inside the hall kron could be seen seated at one of the masters chair in the front, kron noticed them and gestured for him to be brought over , he was taken to kron, the pirate asked him to kneel in front of kron he refused,the pirate was pissed he used the butt of his plasma rifle to bash kitera in the head, he fell down head first, the Carmines and other races including humans saw what happened and began laughing and jesting ," who does he think he is a noble? " One of the humans there said while laughing, the pirate was about to continue beating kitera when kron signaled him to stop by raising one finger
" Get up" kron said ," do you know I own you he said" , kitera didn't reply, kron smiled" it doesn't matter I have all the time to break you"," do you want revenge "kron said , kitera nodded his head "good" now if you belong to me stand here and collect the plasma rifle from your friend over there ", he said pointing at the pirate," if you don't belong to me then get on the stage to be auctioned your next, I am sure there are some people here who are interested in men" he said laughing, others followed him to laugh
Kitera knew if he gets on the stage he was on a road of no return, who knows whose hands he will fall into as much as kron wanted to make use of him, he didn't seem to have any other evil intentions, so he made his choice he turned and collected the plasma rifle from the pirate, kron then stood up and stood in front of him and raised the gun to his head and asked " do you hate me" "do you think i am the one that ruined your life, do you think I am the one that is trying to steal your wife he said while laughing " "ha ha ha ha ha" he raised his hand and a news header with a picture showed up it was a picture of his own burial , his picture was on the front page . He was heartbroken but that wasn't what broke his heart he saw his kids standing alone with their grandparents but that was not it , his wife Alicia, was crying in the arms of someone.
Few weeks ago , it was a sad day with heavy winds blowing , they finally told kira that her dad was dead and she was crying nonstop, everyone was sad apart from tera , he believed his dad was not dead, his dad will never die and leave him, he remember the last time he spoke with his dad over the holograph screens and he showed him the toy plasma gun he had made for him it shot light and little heat , the reach scions had a better toy gun that him because they had more money so his dad made a custom toy gun just for him, made of blue crystal he still had it with him, he remember what he told him, " if you ever run in trouble press this little red button, he remember his dad bragging he was the best engineer in the whole world and no one can design anything better than him at the same level, he said that he is very important for the whole star system and that all the houses will protect him, that he was too important to be harmed anywhere he finds himself. Tera smiled and swore in his heart that he would find his dad wherever he is .
" Tera" Alicia said come you need to dress for the occasion, wear this robe it was a long black robe with , gold embroidery, gold cufflinks, the dress was like that of the high nobles, Marcus had gotten the dresses for the occasion for them so tera didn't want to wear it but his mum forced him , he has been seeing marcus around a lot lately almost everyday, he hated it, but there was nothing he could do , they were fully dressed and a long back ,luxury , six seater , reactor powered shuttle pulled up it was Marcus personal shuttle , he was going with them for the burial, if tera had a choice he wouldn't enter this vehicle, marcus had not done anything wrong but his heart couldn't just accept him , he had been nothing but helpful but he would still prefer if he wasn't there at all, when they arrived the was a long procession, that led to the field behind the hall of alumnis of the Blue crystal tech university there was a statue erected for Marcus and all the fallen engineers who were building a station for the star system, the more space stations the had the safer,easier and faster space travel will be within the star system, eaxh space station was like a beacon in space for the space ships, crystal gas powered reactors was what was being used in this star system as it was the most abundant self renewing fuel for reactors, they were massive and very uneconomical, until 2 years ago that kitera found a way to make it smaller and portable why liquidate the gas and pump it into the reactor and why can't the reactors be on the surface instead of having to deliver liquidized crystal gas that is abundant in the environment why not create plates and coating that can react with it directly and connect wires along the surface to transfer the energy directed from the reaction into the processors and chips for mini devices, and the machines for spaceships and and space station, this has reduced the cost of production and maintenance of development all over the star system, he was never rewarded for this fit , he never knew that the scholarship he accepted also meant anything he designed with the knowledge acquired in this university will belong to the family that granted scholarships
Most times the houses never benefited from these scholarships but when it did, like now it was worth it all, he was only promoted to a chief technician and salary increased, kitera was still grateful for his life now and never complained, until now ,the nobles had finally crossed a line.
The burial call was starting and a coffin was being buried for every missing engineer it was finally kiteras turn, his accomplishments was been read out , it was a loss for the whole system, to loose such a talented scientist, the seven houses were pissed at the pirates and whichever of them had licked the information on the coordinates of the new station,they were planning on getting to the bottom of this and finding the culprit.