El Diablo en el Vacio

"The Devil on the Void" (English)

FOREWORD:

From deep in space to the Draco Tri-solar System in the DeKidor galaxy. 206,500,000 light years from last contact ...

The Draj. a race that was forced to expand in the only way it knows.
by attacking the defenses on the moon of Vespa3, a territorial space protected by another race called Wurtz. prosperous post-human explorers sometimes mistaken for gods by the developing civilizations with which they have made contact, and whom they have come to influence.

When the Wurtz fleet was warned of the attack they did not hesitate to respond by opening a wormhole from which they emerged from the nearest quadrant, engaging in a massive, fierce and short space battle. the Drajs used powerful photon weapons but the Wurtz had no weapons, having to resort to computer viruses transmitted from great distances through the connectome. breaking down enemy systems, depressurizing their ships, deactivating their magnetic fields, and destabilizing their antimatter cores, killing entire crews. But when both parties no longer had to fight, an armistice was called. yet the Wurtz had learned what their enemies were capable of. The war had promoted the development of technology in a forgotten way and General Wurtz Vince was tasked with a secret mission, taking advantage of the cessation of hostilities to infiltrate enemy lines and attack them from within with a replicated Draj ship on a suicide mission. the Enchantress, a giant Halo built around a suspended core with enough mass to generate the gravity needed to walk around the ship. But it could feed the nucleus to increase its mass, hiding a destructive capacity of proportions never seen before. but just before reaching their objective the Drajs discovered it and attacked weakening its structure so Captain Vince Wurtz ordered to dispose of the nucleus to avoid collapse after a retreating Warp jump, leaving the gravitational bomb swallowing everything in its path, becoming a small black hole, but millions of light years from the place the damaged Enchantress, unable to maneuver, lost its course and after not being able to perform another Warp jump, it remained lost in infinity.
However, the Drajs were not only hiding in that space. The battles continued and thanks to their war experience perfected over millennia they had won yet another war. Finally and as expected, they enslaved what was left of the enemy, continuing their expansion at the cost of blood of all imaginable colors and smell.
Throughout the cycles the dominant race would be called by its victims as "the demons of the void"
But in the ruins of the war the Enchantress was still there lost who knows where. with her crew dying as the cycles went by. Generations after generations trying to survive by consuming their resources without a purpose or future. having grown up uneducated they soon forgot all that their race had once been.
The formed society needed laws to solve their differences, fights and even to punish crimes. And the only one with the capacity to create them was the ship's computer that tried to instill rules of coexistence, but the Wurtz made their own and took care of fulfilling them and enforcing them ... and breaking and punishing them at their convenience.
Anarchy reigned, and the group gradually dwindled. when they eliminated an enemy they looked for another one, and so and so. being finally a single child the only survivor. who reached his adolescence alone and helpless condemned to a life in a large ship stranded with energy limited to the use of a crew that no longer existed, for a number of cycles that no longer mattered. What would such a ship mean to a Wurtz child?

Named after his great grandfather Vince came under the tutelage of the Enchantress's computer. that he tried to teach her the values ​​of her vanished culture. but as time went by it became more and more evident that by not having someone to share with him he would never learn basic values. things like love, humility, kindness, respect, tolerance. if he had no other being similar to him to learn the simplicity in sharing or giving the part of him for the enjoyment or need of another.
Instead he grew up selfish, pedantic, haughty and arrogant. so the computer decided to test one more time and synthesize for it a whole family programmed to replace the deceased crew members. but it didn't work either.
Adopting a consciousness of being superior, he called himself Prince Vince while he spent his time synthesizing the most extravagant objects to own and wear going from party to party inviting only the most beautiful synthetic substitutes. he would point to a woman and take her into her room or behind the nano walls to pick her up with or without her programming consent. despising her because he knew she was inferior to hers for being artificial. He possessed the most beautiful women, so much so that he already bored him, seeking to synthesize other sexes and species to please himself. sometimes he would organize big orgies in the middle of the main hall. everyone did what he wanted and flattered him by feasting on his graceless jokes but deep down he knew he was alone. Then he in private he did it with the most grotesque looking ones.
A cycle in the middle of sex a small Draj ship in emergency arrived in the vicinity. In the communication his elderly Captain was amazed to see a Wurtz Crew inside an old Draj ship in ruins but even so he was submissive offering in exchange for food supplies to return to his territory a single charge of antimatter that he could not do without. for their own engines. Prince Vince disgusted by the appearance of her decided to tease her and throw her from the perimeter of her. she warned him not to be fooled by appearances because beauty was beyond them. when Prince Vince rejected her again threatening to attack her small and insignificant ship.