The value of freedom
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The tall and dark man known as Captain Harlock was left alone on the bridge. His hands held firmly the replica of an ancient wooden wheel, yet ever so gently manipulated it to guide the giant battleship throughout the endless sea of space.
Those were calm times. Times of peace.
But, as human history had it, it would not last. Beyond this horizon of tranquility, a storm of war was undoubtedly brooding.
With luck, it would be after they passed away. That was the best he could hope for.
Such were the hard lessons that the famed space-pirate had learned.
But Harlock had not given hope on humanity … or his own humanity.
They would learn… somehow… someday…
Inside the hulls of the ARCADIA lived men who had the will to fight for the right to exist. Some for their own survival, others for survival of mankind.
But there were countless waves of people on Earth and the colonies who had fallen asleep, dreaming their own existences away, without realising the horror this waste represented. The accumulated mass of bad intentions, uncaring, laziness and neglectful actions of a selected few over the last thousand years had created humanity's greatest enemy. And its name… was apathy.
Humans passed their lives in front of television now. When they could not, they turned to cyberspace and virtual reality. And when that was lacking, there was always a small object, a new gadget, an electronic gizmo to prevent them from reaching to the world around them… or each other.
It had been late in his existence when he realised this. Having done so sooner would have changed nothing. For centuries now, there was no place allowed for someone who disagreed. They would be rejected at best, and marked as criminals at worse. Escape was nearly impossible; less one exiled himself from the whole of humanity.
He could not.
But one day, he realised the empty darkness of space was not just a deadly void. It was solace; a mad dream of freedom.
When at last he returned to this place, he embraced that dream, forsaking all other consequences. He was free.
Free to live. Free to die. Free to choose. Free to disagree. Free to try something else.
Even hunted like a rabid animal, he was free.
And it was enough…
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F.A. Wow… it's been quite a while since I last posted anything. Doesn't really matter. I doubt anyone will read this.
Still… I'm up for dark, depressing animes right now, so there might be a sequel if I got the time.