My plan to introduce myself peacefully to the civilizations of this universe didn't last very long. The Drengin (of course) forced my hand. See, when they saw a vulnerable looking freighter with only a few fighter craft for escorts, they assumed 'this must be an target to destroy, so let's do that and loot the wreck for anything valuable'. Well, I assumed that was that these guys thought - normally, the Drengin were quite a pragmatic group of evil aliens, especially in regards to my later encounters with them. Guess these guys just wanted to shoot something.
Anyway, the Drengin force that my freighter had encountered promptly opened fire onckt with laser beams, presumably hoping to cut open the ship, since armor in the Gal Civ verse does squat against lasers. Unfortunately, my Progenitor alloy based armor was still as good as late game armor in this universe, which was more than enough to no sell the Dregin's lasers, allowing my Honey Bee Class Cargo Transport to come out of the engagement completely unscathed. While the Drengin tried to wrap their heads around how they had done less than scratch damage to my freighter, said freighter's escorts, officially designated Bull Ant Class Interceptors, made short work of the Drengin ships, which were far more vulnerable to lasers than my vessels were. Scans of the wrecks confirmed there were no survivors. A shame, really - I could've interrogated them without really hurting them, and I would've returned those Drengin to their empire unscathed, but alas, some thing sdon't go out the way you want them to. Oh well.
With nothing else to get in their way, the freighter and its escorts continued on their way, while I created more fleets to continue expanding my dominion. A few ships were sent through wormholes, in order to allow me to expand faster than simple FTL would take me. By chance, one of those wormholes put me Within Drengin territory, in a system where the Srengin lacked any presence, owing to a lack of inhabitable worlds.
When I realized what had happened, I smiled to myself. Time to take the Drengin out of the game.
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