Time they say that time is the only thing that can hide the past.
A kingdom that was once a great empire that was home to millions of people would end up forgotten by everyone, its ruins buried beneath the ground long after the empire fell.
The injuries that one suffered as a child would be forgotten by that same person, it didn't matter if the child hurt his body or if someone broke his heart.
"Perhaps my people will forget who they were." Star Killer heard the king say to himself as he looked at the blue sky and green forest that covered the surface of his ship.
"No, they won't, as long as I or the rest of the captains remain, you and your people will keep your culture and everything that makes you, well you." he said to the king who just looked at him with a hard expression.
"Why would you do such a thing?" the queen asked him, she could feel the waves of fear, shame, pain, ecstasy, confusion, and defeat coming from the ship, or better said the slaves that were living inside the ship.
Star Killer looked at the sky and nearly smiled as he looked at the Tamaran homeworld.
"You should already know the answer, but I'll humor you." he said to the queen.
"To you, we are nothing more than monsters and in truth we are. You have already experienced how it feels to be targeted by a species that has superior technology"
"Now imagine that the same race is similar to yourselves, a species that's stronger, faster, and more intelligent, how long would it take your people to gain your freedom?'
"I tell you this not because I want you to think that we are friends but for you to understand why we do things the way that we do."
"To you, we are nothing but monsters, but take the Asari for example. They go from planet to planet befriending the population and with time they start to breed with them."
"Normally this would be a good thing, as it shows that the species are growing closer. Except that the Asari don't truly breed with another species, they just connect their minds and take whatever is useful from whoever they meet."
"Their children will always be nothing more than Asari, but what happens to the original inhabitants of the planet?"
"Well, they get the pleasure of being second-class citizens in their birth world."
"Oh and before you start to think that it doesn't sound too bad, there is also the other possibility.
It's not the first time that, that invasive species destroys a civilization, either because they breed them out or they killed the species the old-fashioned way."
"And when they're done, they erase everything from the record, nothing remains of the people that they destroyed, all of this because they simply didn't like the people living there."
Star Killer ignored the looks of shock that the king and queen were giving him, so he continued to tell them the things that he had seen in the game, it wasn't like he was lying after all this did happen in the game.
"We took this species from their homeworld and made them our playthings, they are now experiencing the same thing that they have done to countless others."
"I tell you this because as long as we exist, your homeworld and any colonies that you make will be entirely under your control."
"What do we care about what you do down there, you know how things are done, and know how your people handle everything, but up here in space, your people play by our rules."
"So feel free to send ships and set up secret colonies so that you can free yourselves from us, and we will simply leave, but when you meet someone that doesn't care about you or your people. You will understand the difference between serving us and kneeling to them."
The two of them looked at one another in silence neither of them wanting to somehow insult their host.
They hated knowing that despite several of their people being taken into the ships, they weren't as many as they expected.
They had expected the Union soldiers to ravage their world and then leave.
They expected to see the still living bodies of their subjects who would be so mentally broken by what the Union soldiers had done to them, that they could barely function anymore.
The Union was keeping its side of the deal, they were helping repair their world, and its soldiers were working with their subjects to repair the ruined houses and buildings that were destroyed during the constant slaver invasions.
The broken remains of war machines or simple vehicles that their people used were now being cleared in a way that they didn't end up making more trash.
It would be a while before their world returned to the way it was before, but the seeds of the future were already being planted and all that it cost them, was the bodies of their people.
"Why?" the queen asked him in a voice that still held some strength but somehow showed that her will was growing weaker.
"Why what?" Star Killer asked her.
"Why not just break us like you have done to them?" the king asked him.
"What would be the point? As strong as the Union is, we aren't the strongest group out there and we can't be everywhere."
"You've noticed it haven't you, despite how our men are free to do what they please with your people, not a single child or person that has a partner has been brought onboard or been touched in any way that hints at something else."
"To shorten my answer, space is big and we need allies." Star Killer answered the king and queen.
"You don't even hint at us being your allies!" the queen shouted at him.
"Allies, servants what's the difference? It's always the same, the stronger one forces everyone else to do what they want."
"We don't deny you anything, hell we are even helping you rearm and build new ships, so tell me what do you want." he asked the king and queen who could only look at him.