Fighting On

The expectation was that the Humans would realise they had no chance against our superior firepower, and would surrender. But they fought on.

So we destroyed their outposts, one by one, systematically removing them, presuming they needed tangible proof of our greatness. But they fought on.

Encasing their homeplanet in a pulse field took just a few days, and their subjugation would take much sooner, we assumed. But they fought on.

So we slaughtered them, to the last, removing them from the universe. They could not fight on from that.

But then they become the rally cry for everyone else.