E.A.R.T.H IV

They have shown themselves to be fearless and driven, and they will often risk multiple lives to save but one. Truly, their self-sacrifice is unmatched.

It is an instinct that neither war nor peaceful race could have ever achieved. The war-races are selfish in nature, every army an army of individuals. Peaceful races have no such genetic coding for warfare, aside from the necessary battles the calculated, utilitarian approach to life naturally leads itself to. The humans, however, treat each other as if they are all blood-kin. It is a curious sight, after seeing what they were doing to each other so recently before.

Perhaps this was the unification they needed - an outside enemy. Something to make them forget about their own petty wars and feuds, something to make them all stand together as one. This was just what we had feared.

As the battle raged on, the humans gradually acquired more of the 20-S-4's technology, and proved surprisingly adapt at manipulating it for their own ends. Their capabilities for battle thus rose dramatically, slowly turning the tide of battle as time went on. No day was without massive bloodshed on either side, but while the 20-S-4's were fighting for pride, the humans were fighting for the very survival of their species. They were absolutely relentless.

Eventually, the 20-S-4's were forced to send their entire fleet to end the war once and for all. This did not escape the knowledge of the Eight, whose entire fleet was already en route to 20-S-4's home planet. No doubt they were planning to take advantage of their absence.

This turned out to be exactly what the humans were waiting for. Proving particularly capable at intercepting communication's channels as the war progressed, the humans had intercepted the backup fleet's communications with the invading force. They hailed the fleet with their own commandeered ships of the enemy, and when they had boarded under the pretense of joining forces, they slaughtered the crew and seized some of the 20-S-4's largest and most deadly spacecraft. This was a devastating blow, and the ensuing carnage resulted in a full rout by the remainder of 20-S-4's fleet.

Against all odds, the humans had prevailed.

With the invading force of the 20-S-4 repelled, the humans did not rest. They took every last scrap of alien technology that remained and worked feverishly to use it to their own ends. The whole species, the entire planet, worked as one. They became vengeance incarnate, and it was a terrifying thing to behold.

In no time at all, they prepared an invading force of their own. It now sets forth to traverse the stars and destroy the species that took everything from them. Using the ships of 20-S-4's own communications channels, they have sent out an open declaration of war as their largest ships near their deadly destination.

The Eight, meanwhile, approach 20-S-4 with their own enormous fleet at a steady pace.

While their intentions are not known, it does not bode well for the humans.

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