Elijah's Memoirs

When I opened this double-worn memoir at my desk, my temples were stained with weather. As the youngest son of Karen Kross, a former MP from Talen Planet, I spent half my life escaping from my father's "stubbornness", but when I looked back in middle age, I was finally dragged back to those war-torn years by the words he left behind. When I was seventeen, I left home due to a quarrel and rebelled. The unexpected discovery of my father's letters on the starship was like a key, prying open the secrets of the civil war under the empire's glorious coat - the congressman who I regarded as an "empire puppet" was once an ordinary person guarding the tavern, an innocent person forced into exile, and a lurker under Princess Nancy's command. In the next few years, I followed the clues in the notebook, from the abandoned mine on Ox to the corner restaurant on Gaia, to trace my father's comrades in arms, and to piece together the truth that was torn apart by the war: a key that was deliberately left behind, a carefully planned Conspiracy, countless ordinary people struggling in troubled times... I touched my father's fear and tenacity in his words, saw his sacrifice and tenderness in the oral accounts of his comrades, and also gradually understood my own ignorance and paranoia in the cruel context of the civil war. This memoir is not only a retrospective of my journey to find my father when I was young, but also a salvage of the hidden history of the Imperial Civil War. When my father's letters overlapped with my memory, those misunderstood years, the buried truth, and the family affection diluted by time finally echoed in the stardust, completing a reconciliation that was half a lifetime late.