Chapter 1237 - Of Karma, Of Destiny (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Dead? Do you really think any of us can really be dead?” Akatziris replied coldly. Death meant nothing to them as they had experienced death countless times before they even entered the Milky Way! They had lived in cloned bodies numerous times, reviving again and again! What was one more death?
The first officer had destroyed Akatziris’ main consciousness. That was the truth. The other truth was Akatziris’ role as a captain. She had a backup for her backup plans; instead of just storing one consciousness in a single location, she had preemptively copied her memories and consciousness into the game machine’s physical drive.
The main reason for her creation of two backups was as a contingency move. She feared that the main physical drive would fail, even though it never did. Lo and behold, mutiny struck and she still had one lifeline to spare. That was also one of the reasons why the support system had chosen to store everyone’s consciousness into the gaming system’s physical drive.
The first officer thought of it all before he killed Akatziris. Before he delivered the poison, he went ahead and hacked into the main Data Management Center, deleting her consciousness there. He had anticipated all outcomes, one of which was Akatziris shutting down the life support system to kill everyone on board. Hence, before he killed Akatziris, he deleted her backup. If all went according to plan, the first officer would kill the captain, and she would then proceed to turn off the life support system or use any other means to take everyone with her to the grave. Even so, as long as Braveheart still flew and the support systems still worked, everyone but Akatziris would be revived. That was supposed to be the end.
However, due to unknown factors, the ship was caught in Earth’s gravitational pull, causing it to fall apart into several sections. When the physical drive was restored by the Terrans—Humans of Earth—all seven Namekians, including Akatzitris were awoken. Unfortunately, they were not themselves when they woke up because memories that were not theirs had been imprinted into their consciousness. Everyone had different appearances and abilities that came with their new character.
Since all crew members aside from the captain were stored at the last minute, they were all connected like multiple files being kept in the same folder. The captain, Akatziris, had stored her own data in a separate location in the same physical drive. That was why the others had no idea the captain was still alive! Everyone was convinced that the first officer’s assassination plan went through!
“Come now, where are the others?” Akatziris asked. There was a tone of hostility in her voice like that of a lion before its kill. Her true grudge lay with the first officer. If it were not for him, none of them would be standing in the room!
“Captain, we have nothing to do with the mutiny! You must understand that it was only the first officer and the seventh officer! They were the ones behind it all!” cried Ragnaros in fear.
“Captain, you have to believe us! We have even killed the first officer to avenge you!” Therazane howled. Although Akatziris looked completely different from when she was the captain, her cold and cruel demeanor was still fresh in their minds.
“So, he’s d-dead?” Akatziris stuttered.
“Explain,” she added.
“Captain, we did not know about their plans. We only realized that the ship’s life support system was failing right before we perished. When we woke up in the game, we were no longer ourselves… I… We were different,” Ragnaros explained. It was general knowledge that only the captain had authority over the ship’s life support system. Despite that, he cleverly masked the incident as a system failure instead of accusing her of shutting down the life support system.