Gine then noticed an area on the edge of the map and pointed.
"Have you tried the northern quadrant?" Gine suggested.
"That's uncharted territory." Bardock replied.
"Yeah, but that's a lot of empty space to look for a single Saiyan baby." She said, trying to sell her point but fight off the panic of the imminent end of the world.
While her point was true, there was still no telling what was out there. The other side of the galaxy was not very well explored, with frontier planets full of surprises that a Saiyan would not want to find themselves in. From dead rocks to poisonous jungle planets that could devour anything, or maybe even a whole other empire hiding in the unknown region that could challenge Frieza. But, given the circumstances, it may be the best place to send Kakarot if they never want him to be found.
"Alright." Bardock said. He zoomed in on a random corner of the fringe of known systems bordering the dark regions that marked unknown space and scrolled farther from there.
"No... no... no..." Gine sorted them out, looking for a suitable-
"That one!" She pointed to one planet in particular. Bardock clicked on it, and a short file opened up.
Based on what little intel was available, the planet was a small terrestrial world that orbited a yellow star. It literally bordered the edge of scanned systems for there was nothing north of it added on the map. As far as they could tell it had no vast quantities of resources to exploit or any advanced industrial capacity to aid Frieza's empire, so there should be no need for him to want to acquire it. If anything, the planet was nothing of interest or value at all, thus, a great place to hide.
Most of the planet's surface was covered in oceans of salt water, and its landmasses were a mixture of deserts, rainforests, jungles, mountains, and ice caps. It had very moderate temperatures so it should be rather pleasant. It had a substantial and diverse ecosystem of primitive lifeforms, plenty to feed Kakarot. Among a multitude of sentient species that evolved on it, only one seemed to be the dominant and somewhat intelligent kind there. A bipedal anthropomorphic type that seemed very biologically similar to Saiyans. They called themselves 'humans'. And based on data that was collected almost two centuries prior, they had not yet developed space travel nor energy-based weaponry. They were also extremely weak, save for a few individuals that barely made it to a hundred or more in terms of battle power. The planet even had a moon, which would make purging it much easier for Kakarot. Plus, it was a very pretty shade of blue.
"It's perfect." Gine said after reading aloud all the info on it. Even Bardock had to admit, it was a rather pathetic backwater world in an unknown corner of space. Frieza would have no interest in tearing that region apart just to find him.
"Alright then, that planet it is." Bardock said as he typed the coordinates into the pod's navigation computer. Then selected a landing site that would be far from any populated areas of these 'humans'.
"All set now." Bardock said as he stood up.
The weight of what was happening returned to Gine in full force. It was time.
Slowly, sighing in crushing defeat, Gine held up Kakarot, taking a good long look at him.
"Well..." She started to say but could barely finish as her hands started shaking with Kakarot in them.
"...I guess this is goodbye, Kakarot." Her voice broke, choking on tears that threatened to fall. This may be the last time she would see any of her children alive.
Kakarot could sense his mother's sadness and started to cry as well.
"Gine, hurry up!" Bardock said impatiently, "We can't wait any longer."
Gine looked up at Bardock and back at her son. He was right, this had to be done. She collected herself and placed Kakarot inside the pod. Now he was really distressed, as if sensing he was about to be sent away from his parents forever into the darkness of space.
Seeing her son in that pod by himself, him looking so scared and her knowing what was about to happen, tore Gine from within. This wasn't right. This wasn't fair!
"Calm down, Kakarot, you are going to be just fine." Bardock tried to reassure his son, but his words had no effect and only made his son cry harder.
Bardock groaned in disgust but then turned to Gine.
"Alright, let's close the pod."
Gine heard what he said and looked over to the button on the command console that would seal the pod shut and start the launch procedure. She tried to summon the will power to press it, but she just couldn't do it.
"Are you sure we all can't just run away together?" Gine asked aloud, hoping that Bardock may have overlooked some detail to not make her do this. She trusted him no matter what, even if he claimed to have precognition. But she still hoped against hope that he could be wrong somehow.
"It's too risky." Bardock said. "They would definitely detect my power on their scouters and shoot us down for sure. He'll have to go alone."
Gine looked back down at Kakarot. His cries were now cries of terror. Even though he was just an infant, he knew what was going to happen. His parents were going to die, and he was going to be all alone forever. He was so frightened. Gine almost broke down in tears just standing there, seeing how scared her baby boy was.
And she thought of the fate that would await him, something she and Bardock hadn't considered yet.
"Close the pod door!" Bardock commanded, but she wasn't listening.
Saiyan babies who were sent on infiltration missions were usually retrieved someday to be reconditioned, and to continue fighting for Frieza. She remembered when Raditz was sent on his first mission as a baby, he came back after a few years purging the planet he was sent to. She barely recognized him, and he didn't recognize her at all since he had been by himself on a killing spree for so long. He almost tried to kill her and anyone that came near him since he was so feral and uncontrollable; but the doctors were able to sedate him and reprogram his mind to fit back into Saiyan society. He regained his sanity and became a proper warrior instead of some kill-crazy lunatic. The torment he must have gone through broke her heart, but she was so proud of him that he made it through it all and came out stronger.
But now, with Frieza out to kill all Saiyans, he might try to track Kakarot down. Even if he never did find him, Kakarot would have no one to report back to. Nor will he have someone to pick him up.
Kakarot would be stranded on that frontier planet once he's destroyed all native life on it. He won't have either of his parents or his brother to look after him, or even any humans to keep as pets. It's possible that he may adapt to that planet's culture and become one of them, but she doubted that would happen, for the time he spent in his incubator made sure that he would fulfill his programming.
He would spend the rest of his life all alone on a ruined and forgotten planet, with only whatever wildlife he spared for food to keep him alive. He would know nothing but killing and surviving. No different than a wild animal.
No one deserved that fate, least of all her own child.
"I said close it, dammit!" Bardock yelled angrily.
When Gine didn't react, he reached over to press the button himself...
But then Gine grabbed Bardock's hand before he could push the launch command.