First PreviousArtkel had fucked up, badly. Little did he know, but his screw up was going to lead to the final fall of the fledgling Yyvd Empire. Luckily for him, no one would ever know he was responsible, as it took roughly 66 million years for the chain of events he set in motion to end with the destruction of the by then ancient, Yyvd Dominion.He was a resource scout exploring new systems far beyond the edge of Yyvd space, mapping and exploring potential new territory so the empire could focus its expansion on resource rich areas of the galaxy. It had sounded exciting, it was actually the dullest job you could think of and Arktal had realised this about 2 years ago. Now he was just counting down the remaining year of his contract so he could home and spend the rather substantial amount of money had saved up.The pay was only reason he had hadn't just given up and piloted the ship back to civilised space. It probably was exciting for the ones who had found 13 ideal colony systems on the other side of Yyvd space, they were celebrated for advancing the interests of the empire by years, they were heroes.All the systems Arktal had been to had been worthless and it wasnt looking like changing anytime soon. The system he was in was just as disappointing as all the others, the only barely habitable planet was a class 4 death world. Although the air was breathable, it wasn’t anywhere near idea for Yyvdars, the gravity was to strong for his people, this and the mega fauna on the surface made any attempt to colonise it nowhere near worth the massive expense and effort requiredThe system itself had some valuable metals spread throughout moons, planets and a large asteroid belt but they were too spread out and not in enough volume to cover the expense and effort needed to extract them. Once his scan was done, Artkel did however notice, that one of the very few worthwhile concentrations of valuable metals was in the part of the asteroid belt he had ended up near when he finished his survey of the system.At least his visit to this worthless and uninteresting system, that had absolutely no reason to ever be important, wouldn’t be completely pointless.As he was in no mood to waste any more time in this system than he needed to, he didn’t properly mine the more mineral rich asteroids as was procedure. Arktel decided to simply blast the better asteroids apart, gather up the pieces in his hold and process them there on his way to the next system.Once he had used his ship weapons to break apart the asteroids, was only interested in the valuable bits, he never bothered checking where the rest of it went.He definitely didn’t see the massive fragment heading for the 3rd planet.If Admiral Ihuum of the Federation Defence Fleet had known any of this 66 million years later as he watched the humans rout the fleet of ancient evil that intended to enslave the galaxy, that the Yyvd themselves had been responsible for the existence of humans, he would have found it the most hilarious thing he ever heard in his entire life.60 years before the Gieghal-Human war, the Yyvd had returned from millions off years of isolation intending to continue the expansion they appeared to just suddenly stop eons ago, and had been pressing at Federation space for decades. Ihuum had led the federations defence since the beginning and now The Federation was in serious danger of being overrun by the Dominion, who had been building innumerable drone troops and automated ships in an effort to wear down the Federations defences, before finally pushing in with their actual troops.And Ihuum knew it was working perfectly. The Yyvd had spent countless millennia watching, building, planning, and calculating exactly when they would be assured of certain victory. They knew exactly how to break the Federation, and with them gone they would destroy the fractured remaining systems.The dominion thought they had planned for everything.Ihuum wondered if if any one those trillions of Yyvdar, over the millions of years they planned this final push, ever once, for even a second, thought they would need a plan for insane zombie space apes, who crack subatomic matter reconstruction and make killer atomic lizards with it.Because, when it came to the massive swarming armies of an ancient, evil, technologically advanced race, that wants to conquer us all, the humans seemed weirdly over prepared... via /r/HFY https://ift.tt/2GbFX0P
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