“We are coming up on the planet of Zartho, General,” stated the Lieutenant standing next to the Captain, who was focused on piloting the ship. The General looked out of the window at the front of ship, seeing the large purple body coming up in front of them.

Then, the General told them, “Just don’t forget Zartho’s moons that go around the planet fast enough to cause serious damage if we collide and they would be hard to evade.”

The Captain smirked, saying, “Doubting my skills? I’m not a rookie you know. I was the top of my class at the Space Force and I have had years of experience. Just relax.” The Lieutenant nodded along enthusiastically, awed by the skill of the Captain.

“I am well aware of your record in accomplishments, that’s why you are piloting the mothership. But one can never be too cautious.” The General replied.

Then, the Sergeant walked in, saluting to the General, then saying, “The a primary wave of attack ships is ready and the secondary wave ships are ready to drop the ground forces at the designated drop sites. Are we all clear to give the start order?”

The General checked the holographic charts one last time, before confirming, “Give the order. The invasion starts now.” The Sergeant nodded and left the room, while the Lieutenant pulled up a status tracker and organization screen.

...On the ground...

The blue skinned creatures walked through their path, their pod shaped homes lining it. They were all chatting with each other in a friendly manner, all of them enjoying the day. Surrounding their path that had pods around it was giant plants, providing shade from the blue star on the purple ground. The creatures had five extremities, three with round stumps on them, the other two having a hand that had two wide fingers exactly opposite to each other. The creatures were then just sphere shaped.

The little Zarthoians were rolling around on the ground, and playing games together. Then, everything got very dark for a moment, as if a cloud had passed over the sun. The Zarthoians looked up and started running in terror. Descending towards them was a fleet of space ships, that then started firing at Zarthoians’ small city.

The Zarthoians had known that it was only a matter of time before the humans of Earth came to their planet, but they didn’t think it would be so soon. Last they had heard, they were still conquering in the Adrahainian Sector of the Milky Way galaxy.

They knew it would be futile to fight back against the human conquerors, as they had taken many more worlds using their space ship fleet. They had heard of a world in Earth’s sector of the galaxy that had fought back against them with all measure necessary, and then there had been extreme violence there.

After word of that got around, not many other planets resisted much, instead trying to live as tenants of another planet in the Human Empire. They didn’t want to risk the wrath of the human military.

They remembered when the humans had first started building their empire. At first, no one had thought them much of a threat, just sending drones and satellites out to scan space. Then, they met some other aliens in a planet nearby. They proceeded to conqueror their planet. After that, more planets prepared their defenses for a possible Human invasion, but their defenses didn’t stand against the destructive weapons the humans continued to improve.

The Zarthoians ducked for cover, knowing that as soon as the air ships were done firing, ground troops would come, and then they could surrender. They looked out from beneath the plants and hoped that not too much damage would be done in this attack. And that few of them would get hurt. Peaceful surrender was the best option against them.