Crucial Vote

On the Bocchi spacecraft, all decisions are made by vote. Commander, science officer, system engineer, execution robot, quantum AI - five votes, the minority obeys the majority. It sounds democratic until you realize that the voting location is 370 million kilometers away: there are no superiors to ask for instructions, no plans to review, and no regret medicine to take. To save or not to save? To go or not to go? Who to sacrifice, who to save, what to give up, how long to persist - every raise of hands is irrevocable, and the weight of each vote can only be truly weighed after you cast it. The robot learns what it means to "believe" in voting. AI learns what "mistakes" are in calculations. A commander who was about to become a father traveled through a solar storm with B-ultrasound photos in hand, just to get home 21 days early. Come back alive - lowest standard, highest standard