Eclipse Cage

At the end of the twenty-second century, earth civilization stagnated in division. Thousands of regimes are suspicious of each other, and the communist superpower, the remnants of capitalism, and the technological feudal enclave form a delicate balance. There is no global government, but we must face the same verdict - astronomical observations show that in a hundred years, a deep space civilization with resources far exceeding those of the earth will complete a technological singularity and will inevitably crush the solar system. Preemptive strike? Can. The cost is 50% of the earth's total resources - and that means billions of people are forced to die. What's even more cruel is that there are high-dimensional existences suspended at the edge of the solar system. It does not interfere with any atrocities committed by humans: forced conscription, human experimentation, genetic modification, extreme exploitation, all are legal. It only adheres to two red lines: it is not allowed to deliberately kill its own kind, and it is not allowed to intentionally abandon its kind. In addition, human beings can squeeze every drop of flesh and blood from each other, as long as they "happen" not to violate those two commandments. The expeditionary force is about to set off. Resource quotas hang on a knife's edge, and thousands of political powers are playing games in secret rooms. In this cruel competition that is allowed, there are no heroes, only prisoners biting each other in the cage. It has never been the hostility of deep space that has imprisoned mankind. But themselves.