An intergalactic empire finds out what happens when you double-cross humans and try to enslave them. It's not pretty. But, for the record, they were warned. -- Anon Guest
There is no longer a Drasfrangian Empire. What happened to it is a lesson to all who think they have the power and the right to ignore the Cogniscent Rights Committee. Their chief mistake was holding all non-Dasfrangians in slavery. Their territory was large and always growing. Their armies large and fueled by the smaller polities they dominated.
Until they tried it with a small polity of Humans. No more than three well-settled planets and a cluster of colonies in the beginning stages. The Dasfrangians thought they were terribly disorganised and immediately set things right. Starting with dominating the hairless apes present in their new paradise. Taking over the best land and leaving the worst for the people who were there first.
The usual way of doing such things, of course.
What they didn't know was that their latest conquest had done -and been through- all of it before. They knew the play, they knew the playlist, and they already knew how to disassemble the system from the inside. All the tactics. From playing the fool like a virtuoso, through engineering 'accidents', to creating dependency after dependency and then cutting off the supply.
And finally, a fully-fledged rebellion.
The Drasfrangians really shouldn't have made its armies out of their slaves. They expecially shouldn't have left command solely to Drasfrangians hired via pure nepotism and bribery.
They quickly learned what 'fragging' was. Well. They would have if anyone survived the incidents in question. As far as those in the ivory towers of power were concerned, parts of their empire went dark, and then their trusted household servants started slaughtering their masters without any kind of warning.
The Humans did stop before they ended those Drasfrangians who were too young to understand why the empire had to fall. They also spared those who were old enough to question the way things had been. The Humans were also extremely careful not to repeat the mistakes of the Drasfrangians.
It's very difficult to prevent a revolution from going full circle.
The collapse of the Drasfrangian empire was one of the main reasons why Humanity wasn't trusted within the Galactic Alliance. After all, bloody revolutions within empires could be infectious if they weren't contained. Yet, if they were contained too hard, they could squeeze through the cracks and spread.
Pax Humanis was the compromise. The Alliance would leave Humanity to their own devices, but if they needed experts in quelling a domineering polity... well. They had Humans on their side. It was enough of a threat to keep quite a large number of polities very well behaved.
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