15 The surviving Godden ships sat motionless in
space, scanning where their proud Fleet had once been. All the advanced
ships had been destroyed, save for the few already captured. Slowly,
ship by ship they shut down their weapons and dropped their shields.
There was no fight left in them.
16 The destruction had been such to The Goddens, that now they and The
Republic were virtually equal. Their military strength was almost
exactly the same.
17 "Surrender," pleaded The Turner Against to their new Leader, "let
there be peace."
18 "NEVER!" screamed their new Leader. "You have done the unthinkable.
Not only have you destroyed your own world, but you have destroyed The
Heart Of The Universe, that that was destined to rule all. Twice in
your ignorance, you have slain The Living God.
19 Never will there be peace with you. We will fight until the last of
our machines are gone, 'til the last of us takes his final breath.
Never can there be peace with beings of such ultimate evil. May you rot
in the stench of your own perversion, clinging to your whores! We fight
on!"
20 And fight on they did ….and on, and on, until the generation of The
Turner Against had passed away, and many more after it. Their
destruction continued. Colony by colony, station by station The Goddens
insanely destroyed.