Rasputin of the East

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Mars. Great Plains of Cydonia

“It should have been.”

I turned the pistol round and round.

“It’s normal to die like that, and it should have ended. But it means that he came back, with a changed history.”

“What… is that bullshit…”

Whether the man who fell face down grunted or not, I recalled my memories.

When Olga and I left first, they all disappeared one by one into a page of history.

Tatiana followed us just ten months later. It was Maria who lived the longest. After living in good health for nearly 10 more years, she died in 1988.

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Meanwhile, in the 21st century, relations between the United States and Russia have also undergone major changes. President John McCain of the United States signed the Agreement on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Warheads and the Agreement on the Peaceful Exploration and Use of Space between the United States and Russia at the Great Lakes Conference.

This was for several reasons.

After my death and entering the era of Victor, relations between the United States and Russia cooled rapidly. The United States seriously pursued a plan to abandon the Earth and escape into space in case of a nuclear war, and spurred the terraforming of Mars.

Russia continued to fight until the late 1980s by reducing oil production and expressing its will to block the United States with Eurasian-African states by bringing together the African Union, the Indochina Federation, the Commonwealth of India and the existing Common Defense Treaty members.

On the other hand, Victor transferred most of the power to Parliament over a period of 10 years, but the pandemic caused by the highly pathogenic virus in the African Federation in 1989 and the economic depression that followed, revealed the incompetence of the Parliament, and it was pointed out for a long time as a problem with the floating exchange rate system. As the global imbalance intensified, the entire Old World was shaken by civil wars, protests, and riots, but when the Russian Empire clearly showed that it was too heavy for its size, many countries questioned Russia’s leadership.

The people, outraged by this scandal, held a large-scale demonstration starting in Moscow, disbanding the cabinet and demanding that the emperor step forward.

However, it was true that Victor had no way of rectifying this situation. In addition, the U.S. did not miss an attempt to contact the British and French Empire and the torn members of the Commonwealth of China.

In the end, Victor, who came to the fore in response to the strong demands of the people, supported the anti-American revolutionary forces in South America, overturned the South American Federation and stabbed the United States in the back. announced

This greatly increased the support of the imperial family, but it also sharply set back Russia’s democracy.

“He eventually decided that it was too early for the subjects of the Empire to embrace democracy, so it was Ogas that I had just envisioned and left.”

Victor eventually completed Ogas.

It has created a ruler who is absolutely fair, uncorrupted, and not erroneous.

This completely changed the form of national government, with most judges and lawyers becoming unemployed with the exception of a few.

The Russian Empire, which had to be at the forefront of the unmanned, automated and digital revolution, began to wash away its scars.

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Meanwhile, the United States invaded the Revolutionary Union of South America, but the war dragged on, and the United States, remembering the nightmare of the Chinese civil war, felt the need to reconcile with Russia, which supported South America.

Thus, the Great Lakes Conference between John McCain and Victor was made, and the United States, who reached an agreement on peace, was finally able to win the surrender of the Commonwealth of South America under Hillary President Hillary.

The problem was that this war had ruined the United States itself.

US President Petraeus recently transferred responsibility for controlling Mars to the United Nations.

In other words, it was a declaration that Russia and Russia would jointly administer Mars, which had previously been almost monopolized by the United States. It was a prescription from the federal government that could not withstand the financial pressure at all.

And, despite the fact that it was originally under the jurisdiction of international organizations, Mars was infinitely close to a land of lawlessness.

The US government sold land on Mars at a low price to encourage migration to Mars, but if you are far away from the Mars colony centered on the Arcadia Plain, a lawless zone will unfold.

The reason was simple. lack of administrative power. It is an environment that is difficult to beat even when outlaws and thieves are active.

Of course, the areas where the Russian and U.S. forces were deployed to secure security were quite safe, but the areas that were not were not much different from when the United States was pioneering the West or when Russia pioneered Siberia.

“Be quiet for a while, okay? I have to get paid.”

The badge on my chest gleamed.

The sheriff’s badge shone in the Martian sunlight, signifying that she had been appointed sheriff of Mars by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, which has the authority to select personnel to manage Mars.

‘A horse is a sheriff, what he does is a bounty hunter belonging to the state,’

Staring at the trio of robbers that had been suppressed, I blew my pistol back.

“The convoy has been called, so stay calm until it comes, okay?”

This time I sighed in hopes that the damn junk didn’t spread.

***

United Nations Sheriff’s Office.

I opened the door with a nameplate written in English and Russian and went in and locked the door.

Inside was not my usual pig cage… but my private room.

Back in the same world, my job had changed a lot.

Although he is of Korean nationality, working as a sheriff with the right of recommendation from the dual empire was not uncommon among the members of the Joint Defense Treaty. I am German, but I have a recommendation from Russia,

I sat down on the sofa and turned on the TV.

“Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Spain and the German Empire officially expressed regret over the Alsatian remarks of the Interior Minister of the Anglo-French Empire. Germany’s foreign minister, Konrad, urged the British and French Empire to reflect deeply, stating that ‘there is no future for a nation that has forgotten the past, and we should all reflect on the past at every opportunity.’

A newscaster from the Austro-Hungarian Empire could be heard chattering in German, and German subtitles were passing below.

＜Breaking News: Prime Minister Benjamin of the African Federation announced his resignation at an emergency press conference… The 2 trillion ruble Mogadishu scandal spreads in the aftermath>

“Joe 2.”

I laughed bitterly. Even if it was a total corruption scandal within the government in Mogadishu, it was very early in the original history that the figure of 2 trillion actually came out.

Somali pirates have not existed in this world for a long time. On the other hand, the region of Somalia – of course, there is no country called Somalia – is prospering as a stopover for numerous merchant ships.

In addition, the fact that such scandals erupt and get ripped off also means that democracy has settled down to a certain extent and the inside has become healthy.

‘I did at least one good job.’

I searched the refrigerator for a glass of whiskey to commemorate this.

There was no one to work with. I’ve been in touch with my family for a long time, and Mars Sheriff is a pretty boring job.

Then, a drone flew in through an open window and started hovering.

It is these multi-purpose drones that ease a lot of the sheriff’s work. Of course, because there are not enough drone maintenance and supply facilities on Mars, and because of the number and range of drones, it is not capable of covering the entire Mars area, but at least in a certain range around the Arcadia space center, drones perform many tasks. does it

It is also a problem that time will solve.

But now drones have arrived.

An anomaly that has occurred recently is an anomaly.

“…Did you steal the drone again?”

-That’s the simplest way, at least on Mars.

There was a crackling sound, followed by a beam of light from the drone’s camera. After a while, the light projected an elaborate 3D hologram into the air.

“Long time no see, Dad.”

The hologram had the shape of a white-haired girl.

An avatar created by the being who controls the drone.

This was the central system of Ogas.

To be precise, it was part of the central system, and she’s been in contact with me since last month.

And, exactly before the end of yesterday’s meeting, he called me father.

“It’s been a long time, one Mars day has passed.”

“It’s a long time for me. The business cycle of the Ogas system is……”

“I know your performance is excellent, but by your standards, even our communication speed has slowed down, making it frustrating.”

“I don’t know if it’s appropriate for the human expression of “frustration…”. My interface was designed primarily to communicate with humans.”

“But before I say the next word, you might as well go through a mountain of papers or hack somewhere.”

“It is already going on. The intelligence I assigned to this conversation…”

“You still have a long way to go to become a person.”

“I am not human, and I should not be human. The only reason I act on behalf of all the power of the empire, the trigger of the weapon system, the power to redistribute wealth, the judicial, the administrative, and the legislative power is the veto power, the only reason I may be self-interested, someday old, someday changing, someday changing. This is because we are not human beings who are destined to be limited in their growth.”

It looks like a typical artificial intelligence machine that takes jokes too straight forward. Of course, Ogas’s understanding of humans is advanced enough to distinguish a joke from a serious one, so answering like this would be just taunting me.

“Because you don’t grow old, you don’t die, you’re made so that there is no desire to satisfy your own self-interest, you’re made so that you don’t have emotions, and you’re a being who can identify and develop your own problems, contradictions, and bugs.”

There are many restrictions, but they learn on their own and grow on their own. This is the so-called artificial intelligence.

Since that is not enough, it also includes a function to collect and organize the thoughts of many people.

Some of this was to prevent social chaos by monitoring the thoughts and desires of all the population in terms of security, but others wanted to borrow ideas chaotically put forward by many human beings.

There is only one result that 100 million OGAS that have studied the same, but 100 million humans can give 100 million answers, and among them, there may be at least one better answer than OGAS.

A being who was created to carry out his duties while always pondering whether his conclusions conform to all rules, and comparing and analyzing the collected information.

That was Ogas.