Humans are DeadWorlders (2/4)

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Khaden_Allast

A Tense Peace, Shattered

While the bhren and comvin never signed an official treaty, never officially made peace, they were at least no longer actively fighting one another. All it had taken was the destruction of Earth, the planet of the humans, who had been the allies of the bhren - at least, they thought that they were. While destroying a planet was the most grave of galactic taboos, and under normal circumstances the comvin could have expected the galaxy to turn against them, the humans had been uplifted by the bhren. As a result few truly mourned their loss, not even the bhren themselves, whose indifference towards the humans, it could be argued, allowed for such a fate to befall their planet.

Meanwhile, while a number of humans had managed to evacuate prior to the planet's destruction, the number amounted to less than one-tenth of those on the planet. Their species had suffered a devastating blow, and with all of their infrastructure wiped out and not even a planet to call their home, they seemed destined for extinction, to fade into obscurity. As far as the rest of the galaxy was concerned, they were already forgotten, merely another extinct race.