[ WP ] You are now the most hated person in the entire galaxy . What did you just do ?

I can feel it. Even in this cell on Earth, I can feel their hatred across the galaxy, like tiny, staggering bolts of lightning crossing the stars. Every colony on every planet in every system would do the most unspeakable horrors to me in the name of justice, if only they had the chance. If only they could cross the galaxy again. 
 
 With luck, they'll never know why I destroyed it. They'll spend all their lives, and their children's lives, trying to recreate it, trying to rediscover that most crucial element that they took for granted. And in the meantime, their worlds will flourish. 
 
 Forced to be their only companions, they will turn to each other for meaning and comfort. They will rely on each other rather than on a stranger three systems away. They will, perhaps for the first time, realize the world already around them. They will notice the trees, the ground beneath their feet, the marvels that they were always too busy looking past to care about. They will feast on food grown on their own soil, not shipped in from Terra Nova just for the convenience. 
 
 They're coming for me now. I can hear their footsteps; the drum roll to the finale. They'll try to get answers out of me before the end, but they'll give up when they realize the only answer is the ocean. There's only us and the void now, and no ship will ever sail that ocean again. We are stranded on the shore. 
 
 One day they will thank me, you'll see.
