Fics like Broken Piece of Paradise

The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way. The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from. Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat. And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…

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