probes and scouting ships found another species on the edge of the Galaxy the Denis of the great three decided that they would make a good Conquest everyone was excited for the addition of new species to the great three only for the entire galaxy to collectively soil its panties at the sight of the first human warship Fleet the children's eyes stared up at me with awe as the sound of alarms began to blare the great three expected to come across an odd death worlder species that only only recently ascended to the Stars a skaki Invasion Fleet
assembled at Humanity's borders a few dozen panicked transmissions and hastily garbled swear words later the very same Fleet returned home telling a harrowing tale of how they miraculously managed to their way out of what would likely have been the most embarrassing military defeat in Galactic history a squad of soldiers charged past us each one readying their pulse rifles you see the skaki were expecting death worlders a harrowing fight and a decent battle they were not expecting a fleet 20 times their size they were not expecting every warship to be armed more heavily than most planetary
defense networks they were also not expecting a species whose engineering ability allows their warped sense of scale to field ships that were nearly three times the galactic average in size they also were not expecting a race of battle hardened War veterans who now had count them three vassel States under their command plus a full species Extinction under their Victory belt the ship shook as the shields took a hit the first Contact was supposed to be the skaki war Fleet entering a system fighting off the locals and then grabbing a few slaves for the Empire the
skaki instead encountered six human battleships an entire support Fleet and a lone Colony that it was protecting these warships out ranged outgunned and outclassed their slaver Fleet 10 to1 and this was nothing more than a local Colony defense Fleet Panic immediately gripped the great three sanity or at least something that resembles sanity took hold of the great Council and they ceased all Invasion plans or attempts at further antagonization I gladly had the children's full attention with my history tale as the sight of five soldiers struggling with a captured General past us in the background this
as it turns out was a very smart thing to do as barely 2 months after the skandi first Contact a human warship fleet was encountered by Scouts on the edge of rakai territory the human warship Fleet had nearly 2,000 ships half of which were larger than most of the ramaki battleships humans also had a New Concept for Warfare called the Sentry Cruiser which was the essence of a giant gun with engines it could wipe out half the fleet with one shot alarms blared as an explosion rocked the ship Hull the great three were quick to
ensure measures to Plate the humans or at the very least make borders clear and simple diplomatic teams were sent through and a peace Accord was created with Humanity this of course didn't stop the great three from attempting covert operations to seize humans as slaves you see the great three is a term colloquially used to describe the three largest slaver empires in the Galaxy see the great three were three slaver Empires that teamed up together and used their power and resources to enslave half the Galaxy an angry untranslated message hastily garbled itself through the intercom I
quickly used a remote to block the transmission and shut it up because of their influence and aggression half of the Galaxy's history and culture has been effectively erased the great three took exceptional lengths to close ranks and try keep humans out telling them lies and falsehoods to keep the humans out of their business because you see the humans are freaks of nature within their own freak of nature they're death worlders you see oh death worlders aren't abnormal well the skandi come from a class one death World while the humans come from a class n death
world the children gasped in awe as I continued to keep their attention through the chaos well now we understand each other their warships what we consider Cruisers are to them barely destroyers their Titan class warships we encountered were actually just their standard issue dreadnots apparently humans have this thing where they lack any sense of scale and have the engineering prowess to express it not only this but they strip mine entire planets to get their resources and they do it with 10 times the speed and efficiency that we do the kids smiled a sparkle in their
eyes I never thought I'd ever see cross their faces as we entered slip space so who are the great three well the skaki are tyrants who use slaves for labor the ramaki are insectoids who not only use slaves for labor but also food sources the imako are the worst though they're just Tradesmen they see others in the Galaxy as little more than a business opportunity and they enjoy doing very bad things that I can't say in front of kids to their slaves the kids booed at my statement and I waved them to be quiet but
this is why we are here the humans you see they hate slavery they think think that using another person against their will is very evil that is why we are here in a stolen Battleship with a rogue Admiral making our way through to human space with a captured General you see kids what we are doing is showing the humans the truth so the great three can't escape the justice that has escaped them for over 3,000 years the kids yelled with Glee as the universe returned to reality human Fleet sighted enemy Fleet in Pursuit the captain's
voice bellowed through the intercon evasive maneuvers he cried as we barely missed scraping against a human warships Hull Jesus Christ watch your godamn self who the hell do you think you are coming out of Ls at that speed this close to the star what are you insane a human voice yelled out from the radio all Communications being relayed through the intercom the ship shuddered as the humans angrily yelled at us we almost immediately got caught in a series of tractor beams and we were effectively yanked out of our Hasty maneuver we saw a clear sign
that the local Security forces were now latching onto our ship and were dragging us into a nearby ship's hanger human carriers outsized us a few times over and the one we were being towed into was 10 times the size of one of our Cruisers human radio communications yelled at us angrily as they dragged us inside closed the blast doors behind us locking Us in the Behemoth ship prepare to be boarded we heard coming from outside and suddenly the ship's doors were forced open and a swarm of heavily armed humans charged into the ship we didn't
do much about this fact for two reasons firstly we had no intention of fighting back against them we were willing to surrender to the humans anyway claiming status as refugees or escaped slaves we had all reason and intent to surrender the second reason was the shell shock from them boarding us and flooding the ship as fast as they did even if we intended to fight back there was no chance if we fought back within a minute of the hanger doors being closed I had two dozen humans with rifles and weapons sweeping the cargo hold where
I was with the children humans were more than just a little surprised at the sight of a few disarmed soldiers of many different races a captured General and cargo hold containing children they were bewildered as to what the hell had just appeared on their front door before any human officer could ask what was going on they got their answer unidentified War Fleet entering the system 200 ships Cruiser class and lower a human voice spoke over the intercom I laughed at that silly silly human those aren't Cruisers they're battleships one of the humans holding a data
pad of some kind looked at me with confusion uh seriously that's not a battleship it's too small that's just because you freaks of nature have such a broken sense of scale you don't know how to build small I yelled barely able to contain my laughter Stand and Deliver return our property to us immediately the voice of the skandi general blasted over the Comm what the hell is going on one of the humans asked humans I am grand Admiral thakran tar of the skaki Imperium I order you to immediately hand over my property the voice of
one of the great three's best Admirals came over the Comm the children instinctively stood to attention as years of Indo Nation hit them a short incoherent argument followed through the radio as the various sides yelled orders at each other and the soldiers inside our ship took the chance to look around during this barking contest a human male of high status judging by his uniform and medals appeared on our ship and inspected the area the argument was being broadcast across our internal communication array the human male presumably an officer judging by how the human soldiers around
him were acting calmly walked around the ship until he got to us in the cargo bay he looked around us just looking bending over with his strange eyes and looking closely at various objects hm Sergeant yes sir the human Soldier responded you an expert in remotes or explosive devices yes he asked his voice calm and stoic affirmative sir do you see what this is the officer asked pointing to the odd metallic devices placed around and on the children's bodies belts collars bracelets anklets the soldier looked at the devices and used a toolkit to fiddle with
one of them it didn't take him long and one of the collars popped off one of the children's necks the child squealed in Terror and clawed at his neck then became shocked surprised and elated all at once that it was off him he started to cry with joy and leapt up from the floor into my lap the soldier examined the collar it's a remote controlled shock collar with an explosive charge sir designed to sever the neural connection to the body it's a weird design but it's easy enough to sever the connection to the remote control
Network and disable the explosive kind of childish compared to the ones the ravat Pirates used really those were a he said I see can you disarm all the collars here the officer asked we'll do sir the soldier replied and started working away all of this carried on with a rather annoying argument carrying on in the background another human officer entered the cargo bay this one of a similar or slightly higher rank morning fleet commander kohaku the previous officer asked morning Admiral Jax he replied see what I see the fleet commander looked around the room and
picked up one of the disabled cerss to examine it looks to me like a gaggle of escaped slaves aboard a stolen warship using us as their Shield Commander looks to me like the so-called great three lied to us our spies in the council were right all the Intel they got was golden Jax replied the Admiral and fleet commander walked close to me still holding a crying child while a human Soldier attempted to disarm my own collar we shared a glance a knowing look in the eyes and passive conversation as my aged expression scars and stressed
appearance told them everything fleet commander I will contact the fleet and inform Congress we found a new slaver Empire we need to burn Admiral Jack said I say for the last time humans you are harboring criminals return to us our property immediately the skaki Admiral's grating voice kept yelling over the Cal and someone bring me that blo hard's head on a stick he yelled and left the room this is fleet commander kohaku to All Ships I'm about to send you a few photos through the internet take a close look at it and tell me if
the dandi War Fleet there deserves to exist he said then pressed some buttons on his wearable computer the human soldiers on wearables heads up displays and computer terminals all beeped in Tandem and the soldiers looked at it it was a series of photographs of both myself and the children close-ups of scars bruises beating marks and scratches along with close-ups of the collars and explosive devices a few tense moments passed with the skandi Admiral still berating Them All Ships set to maximum fire came a barked order over the Comm 30 seconds later the fleet of 200
warships was reduced to slag the skaki Admiral was caught shortly after and the humans used what they called enhanced interrogation techniques to get the locations of fleets home worlds and slave Farms 6 months that's how long it took the humans to collapse the great three an Empire that stood for over 3,000 human years was toppled and brought to its knees in six months human warship fleets were many times more numerous and heavily armed than intelligence ever suggested and human infantry and ground troops put up a significantly more vicious fight than anyone expected capitals fell home
worlds burned within 6 months all of the Galaxy's slaves tasted Freedom since the great three found them
