Log of the Scryer - Date 6413-43-27 Warm Cycle - encrypted
Planet Kurish entry
I don't know how the war started.
I honestly don't think the Tallest do either – they really didn't care until it became obvious they had to be involved. To them, it was just a tactic. A lucky break. Wars leave the population demoralized and decimated. When you're trying to conquer a race, demoralized and decimated is a good thing.
From a military standpoint of course. From my standpoint, decimated is never a good thing.
But I digress.
I don't know what sparked it. It could have been a trade dispute. An assassination. A small resistance or a coup de tat. Or even a completely random species clash – a sporting event, staged for some higher power. Some jerkwad higher power, I might add. It's amazing, the cruelties you can stoop to when all you can see is people who aren't as good as you are.
All I know is that an Invader got caught up in the struggle. Poor unfortunate prakking unlucky bastard got caught in his base building weapons that could destroy an entire continent – and that wasn't the reason they killed him.
It's not funny. Really it isn't.
They killed him because after they pried off his disguise and destroyed his base and broke his mind-
After all that, they discovered he vaguely resembled the species they were fighting with. And, just to make it clear: They didn't like the species they were fighting with, so they immediately assumed he was a spy.
Or he just admitted he was working for them so they'd stop doing that thing with the taser rod; no one'll ever be certain.
So they killed him. He died. He died for a technicality.
He died because they weren't sure what he was, and just wanted to be certain they didn't disadvantage themselves.
And the Irkens got involved on a technicality too – the Tallest couldn't care less what happened to that nameless Invader, but the Advisors convinced them that such displays of rebellious spirit were not suitable for a planet to be conquered. And with flawless Irken logic, they said they should send the unstoppable might of the Irken Armada to crush all resistance…
They may have used the words 'destroy' and 'squish', too. Repetition is something you get used to when advising the Tallest.
They were half-right.
Such displays of rebellious spirit aren't suitable for a planet to be conquered.
But the Irken Armada was by no means unstoppable.
I don't know how the war started.
But I know how it will end.
Log User Silcia - entry completed at 1739 - begin encryption…