Esprit de Corps
(Spoilers for "Hunter's Moon")
Victory is bittersweet.
Tens of thousands of soldiers, obliterated by the last mad action of — Grnak spits — a hero. They have bought Gordania's safety with blood.
The military is no place for the tenderhearted, so Grnak does not allow himself to feel for their new slaves. The young, the elderly, the weak and infirm, these cannot be used to harvest Thanagar's resources and must be exterminated.
He examines captured documents, noting strengths, outposts, plans. Grnak reads a detailed report on a small, barbaric planet between Gordania and Thanagar.
An easy target might be precisely what they need to raise morale.