Fiction:Legacy of Supremacy

Chapter 1: Domination Politics
449 CE

The usually unending churning of the Neanderthal city was interrupted by the descent of several starships. These vessels had bulbous, ellipsoid shapes, covered in hemispherical nodules. Thal security vessels regarded the intruders with caution, especially as they descended over the ghetto that housed the population of Human hybrids. Communications over all frequencies were suddenly interrupted.

On all screens, there was the image of a man. He was taller than a Neanderthal, and lankier. He clearly had a great deal of human blood within him. All electronic communicative devices, screen or not, began to recite his message.

'Brothers and sisters. The age of the Neanderthals is at an end. For centuries they have abused us, called us "mongrels", ensured that we live a life of pain. In school we learn the tales of Ehorlm, and of how the Humans drove the Neanderthals to near extinction, and how it was only the intervention of a benevolent alien race that they survived. Because of our human heritage, they treat us as the enemy. What they don't tell us is that our Human genes make us superior. The Humans won Ehorlm for a reason. Those "benevolent" aliens interfered with the cycle of nature. But now, the wrongs will be righted. The Kaled Movement is here for you. Not only will we protect you, but we will elevate you to the masters of an empire that will bring us the power we deserve. I am Jacar Danthur, and I am this message.'

As the message concluded, the Kaled vessels fired upon the Thal security ships. Their hypermatter weapons butchered the security vessels with ease. The Kaleds deployed tractor beams into the ghetto, bringing many of the human-hybrids up into the vessels. Many came rushing out from their homes to be taken. Kaled soldiers, with armour cancelling the effects of the tractor beam, were sent in the "assist" those less willing to be taken, and to defend their operation from Thal security forces.

The Thal security force, also in tractor-resistant armour, struggled to stop the Kaled attack. Colonel Dah, leading the defence, was overwhelmed.

'Alert! Kaled forces have breached the lower promenade!' shouted someone over the communicator. Dah did not require informing, as a hail of hypermatter fire rained over his head. He instructed his men to take cover behind their armoured personnel carrier as it provided suppressing fire, only for a kamikaze droid to slam into it and blow it to pieces. Those men who were killed began floating upward in the tractor beam. Having never had to fight anything stronger than an unarmed protest, Dah panicked, and ordered a retreat. He took off as fast as his legs could carry him.

Dan did not look back, and did not check to see if anyone else escaped. He continued running, focused so much on his own escape that he failed to notice the Kaled soldier above him taking aim. A bolt of hypermatter grazed Dah's armour. The tractor-immunity was disabled, and he found himself floating upwards. He tried to grab something, anything, to pull himself back down, but it was no use. He drifted towards the lead Kaled ship.

Dah must have blacked out. He awoke very suddenly, in a pile of corpses. They were all Thal security troops.

'Sir, there's another one,' said somebody. 'A colonel, indeed,' said another.

Dah struggled to haul himself up. A voice, which Dah recognised as that of Jacar Danthur, spoke.'

'Don't waste your strength colonel, you'll be dead in a minute,' he said. 'Bring him to me.'

Two Kaleds hauled Dah to his feet, and threw him on his knees before Danthur. The Kaled leader stood before a large window, or a screen, giving a view of the Thal city. The Thal security ships has fallen onto it, and combined with Kaled weapons fire, had brought much of the city to ruin.

'Tell me colonel, what do you see out there?' asked Danthur.

'I don't know what you mean. I just see destruction,' said Dah.

'I mean metaphorically. What I see is evidence. Evidence of the weakness of the Neanderthals. Evidence of the superiority of the Kaleds. I also see precedent. Precedent for our victory. What I see is the end of the Neanderthal rabble, and the beginning of an empire that will bring the superior race to its destiny of universal domination.'

A Kaled crewman walked up to Danthur and whispered in his ear: 'All Kaled civilians have been evacuated sir.'

'Well then, it's time to leave. Better give the Neanderthals our going away present.' Danthur gave a signal to another crewman. The city lit up in an enormous explosion; the Kaleds had dumped an Anti-Matter Bomb onto it. Dah, and all the dead Thals were then dumped out of the Kaled ship.

'Only the beginning,' said Danthur.