Ethics of crucifixion

A very distant future. In the settlement on one of the planets remote from the center, there is a case of mass suicide of the population. Some time later, a similar case of suicide occurs in a settlement on another planet removed from the first to a very long distance. However, events on another planet take place according to another scenario: suicide covers only an adult population, but before that, adults organize the sending of their children on an unknown starship.
It soon turns out that the abduction of children is organized by a group of alien terrorists under the guidance of two personalities of human origin. One of them is a brilliant poet, the other is a brilliant mathematician. Previously, they were kept in prison on the planet of a cage for the actions of an anti -human orientation and made a daring escape.
It seemed that the employees of the system for controlling the ethical parameters (SKEP) seemed an insoluble task: not only to understand why these geniuses to kidnap children, but also how to prevent another abduction