SWEET HOME ALLE BAMMA (SOLBIDYUM WARS SAGA) - Plot & Excerpts
Then there was Captain Maxette, the first person I talked to after leaving Earth. True, it was over a vid screen; but still, his commanding and reassuring voice was a welcome relief from the silence and the unknowns of deep space. I looked up to Maxette. He was more than a friend; and though we didn’t spend a lot of time together, there seemed to be a real connection with the man. I trusted him. He had lived up to that trust and more; and now he, too, was gone. I wasn’t familiar with the death rites practiced in the Federation. Kala said that ceremonies varied from planet to planet; but for military people who died in the line of duty there were two accepted ceremonial methods. One was cremation, similar to traditional Earth cremation practices; and the other was, I suppose, also cremation in a way, or perhaps like a combination of cremation and burial at sea, as the remains were ejected from a ship into the nearest star. Because of the significance of the heroic deaths that occurred in the battle for control of the galaxy’s entire supply of solbidyum, the Federation decided that the cremations for the fallen would take place on the capital planet of Megelleon. Over 6,000 civilians, dignitaries and military troops died in battle and as a result of the tidal wave created in the Western Ocean when the subsea rebel base was destroyed. Private services had already been held for the civilians; but those that wore the uniforms of the Federation military forces were to be cremated in a large public ceremony at a site just outside the capital city.
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