Snippet #1909742

8.35 AM Sectan Prime.

We have always existed, always watched and now your gods are angered by your forgetfullness. You no longer worship us as the divine being we are and thus we have returned, for you have now incurred the Wrath of the Gods. Those words summerized the Dominions foreign relations to other species. They would bow willingly to the Gods or be crushed into the ground.
The Emperor felt amused as he thought about this. While they said to other species that they always had existed, they had only in fact been exploring the Void for about two decades, but that doesn't diminish the fact that the Sectoids were Gods. They alone among the stars have the power to control lesser species and the one thing that no other have, Immortality.

However they weren't all mighty yet. There would be a time when the Sectoids will would be unqestionable, but that had to wait.

The Emperor looked at his magnificent throne room and saw Lord Qearsh enter the room. He was arriving as expected to deliver the reports from their attack on a neighboring system.

“Has the attack commenced yet Lord Qearsh?”
Lord Qearsh kneeled infront of the Emperor and said the attack has just begun one of our ships suffered an engine problem that needed repair. There weren't any injuries, but the fleet was slowed down.”

“What type of opposition are we expecting from the natives?” The Emperor inquired.

“The natives are currently in a planetbound stage, but have begun limited exploration of the Void close to their planets. They are currently stuck in a economical crisis and there is no unity among them.” Lord Qearsh answered.

“What kind of use will we have of them? Will they be good soldiers or work in the factories? We need more soldiers for our armies. The ones we have are not enough for any major fights and we need more workers.”

“According to the studies we made on the ones we abducted they will serve as both workers and as soldiers. As workers they will be excellent as unskilled workers mass-producing simple goods and as soldiers they will work as cannon fodder drawing attention away from our more stronger troops.
The natives are something that could be described as some kind of insect with a very fast reproduction and can survive in very hostile environments.”

“Excellent Lord Qearsh. Are there any other important events that I should know about?”

“Well Emperor we have detected a transmission from a star cluster 25 light years away from here. While we couldn't intercept the transmission we did find out the planet it was sent from. What do you think we should do?”

“Send an missionary ship to explore the system. Try to be civil toward any species that are there no matter what, we don't want to start a new war, at least not yet.”

“Yes, Emperor. Glory to the Dominion”

“Indeed.”