Councilor Tevos was frustrated and angry she replayed the video that the space stations and defense fleet sent through the net when they called for help.
She couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine as she looked at the gargantuan structures that had surrounded her homeworld before the invasion began.
The enemy hadn't even bothered to stop the cameras on the planet from recording everything that happened on it, it was as if they were telling her and the rest of her people what they thought about their defenses.
Tevos could only glare at the screen as she watched the oldest of the Matriarchs whose experience and wisdom was dragged kicking and screaming by the invaders.
She wasn't the only one as the other matriarchs fought with everything that they had before they were taken into the enemy's ship and carried away.
The invaders didn't care how young or old the Asari were, as she watched pregnant women and women who carried infants in their arms being pushed into the slave ships.
Her heart broke when she began to see the twisted creatures that began to hack the planet's internet before they began to copy everything in it.
There wasn't a single piece of technology that the twisted abominations hadn't touched, as the videos showed how even the simplest toy that had nothing electronic in it was scanned before it was tossed aside like trash.
Her blood began to pump with rage as she watched another video and she saw what the invaders did with anyone who had tried to resist them, she would have cried if she hadn't seen similar things in the past.
It was clear to her now that when the citadel found the enemy's location and went to retrieve her missing people, there probably wouldn't be anything left of the Asari that were taken.
She turned off the screen and laid her head back, the enemy had left a trail of radiation, it was easy for the stealth teams to follow but the problem was that it just kept on going.
There are rules in the universe and one of those rules is that there is always a certain amount of room between planets.
The rule wasn't a concrete one as some planets were closer to each other than others, but there was never a place that had a single planet or no planets at all.
The radiation trials didn't seem to end and just kept on going until the stealth teams were forced to stop their pursuit because they risked running out of fuel.
At least one good thing had come out of all of this.
The stealth teams had discovered several worlds filled with alien life, each planet housed a civilization that varied in culture and technological advancement.
Yet as the councilors watched the videos they became even more worried because all of these worlds shared one thing in common.
They had been left alone.
The enemy ships had completely ignored these worlds and that thought alone terrified her to her core, because it meant that whoever attacked Thessia didn't do it because they wanted slaves.
Slavers didn't care how intelligent their slaves were or where they came from, and that meant that her people were targeted for a specific reason.
Tevos felt a hot tear begin to show itself but she quickly removed it, her heart was heavy because she knew that the other races were making the right decision by pushing her people away.
If her theory was right then it was only a matter of time before the enemy returned and took another Asari world for themselves.
They would do this over and over again until her people didn't have any planets of their own and then the enemy would turn their eyes upon any world that still had Asari living in it.
Some would say that this last part was an exaggeration, and she would tell them that regardless of how easily the enemy had taken her people, no one did something like this without wanting everything.
She simply had to point at how the enemy had taken everything from her world and left an empty rock behind.
These were people who wanted everything or nothing, and she was afraid.
...Change...
The shadows inside the ship seemed to move on their own as the children tried to make themselves smaller so that the guards didn't turn to look at them.
The creatures deformed bodies were a horrifying blend of technology and organic materials that once belonged to some unfortunate soul.
Perhaps it had been another prisoner, maybe he or she had angered his\ her captors and they had punished him by making him in the abomination.
All of the adults had been dragged away by their new masters.
So the only ones left were those who had small children who still needed to be carried and those who still had children in their bellies who had yet to be born.
"open.' they heard someone say in an alien tongue.
The walls of the room began to rise into the ceiling and sink into the floor of the ship revealing an even larger room that now felt almost empty, even though the prisoners now saw that they weren't the only ones in the room.
"Congratulations all of you belong to me now." the creature said to them before the abominations repeated his words to them in their language.
"I won't take anything else from you, feel free to worship your gods and practice whatever you did before. Just remember that you belong to me and I dont take kindly to betrail." the creature said to them.
Even if they couldn't understand what the creature said to them they could feel the threat in his words.
the children watched as the adults eagerly nodded even as the mechanical abominations repeated the creature's words.
"Good, feel free to explore this is your home now, and remember if you destroy anything or try to sabotage anything you will die."
"This is a ship and a tiny hole can quickly turn into a giant one.' it said to them before it left again.
"Why?" one of the adults asked the creature, who turned and looked at her, its eyes seemed to glow with a cruel light as it looked into the woman's pain pain-filled expression.
'Why not." it answered her, there was no cruelty in its vice, and that somehow made his answer feel even worse.
the woman just held onto her daughter tightly as she watched the creature walk out of the room it was followed by the guard who left the door open so that they could step out and start to explore their new home.