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On the world ship, Stardust in her command center in her palace, Polaris watch as the planet below as several ships take off from the planet surface. The world is one she found centuries ago, where a race with psychic powers enslaved a race without powers, even making them into rat like beings so that they wouldn’t look like them. She came to the world and ended the rule of magic after the magic users attack her granddaughter Galatea.

Polaris had the gene that allowed the race to have powers be deleted from their genes, as in all of them. Leaving them without their powers and making it a death wish if any of them ever regain their powers. If they use the psychic powers even once their bodies will shut down leaving them all but dead. And making them completely unable to harm in anyway the rat race, making them slaves to them instead. For the ones who do before they can escape their suffering by dying they are made into brain bots to continue to serve their masters.

That was about 400 to 600 years ago and the rat people ruling the planet has turn it into a factory world. With the slave race working themselves to death, with them being turned into brain bots when their bodies fail. Making sure that they continue to suffer, as long as their lives could be extended. To the point where the slave race now pray for death. (1)

The reason for the visit is that the Oni Empire had tried to invade the planet not knowing that it’s allied with the Equestrian Empire.

“Your forces better not pull this again. The commander of your invasion force, needs to be made into an example of. How hard was it for her to check to see that the system is under Equestrian protection,” Polaris said said to the screen showing Lum the young queen of the Oni empire.

“She’s already been strip of her rank and power with the invasion fleet. She’s going to be personally be strip and dress down in front of the other military commanders as an example of what happens when you don’t make sure that the star system isn’t allied with another empire,” Lum said.

“You really should root out commanders who need to have this happen, where I have to come in and bring out the big guns to make her realize that when the leader of said planet shows her that they’re under the protection of my family’s empire. Now because of this, I have to postpone my search for new systems, because of your commander who refused to believe till, I brought my planet ship and had you order her to stand down,” Polaris said.

“I understand, this embarrassment won’t be taken lightly,” Lum said signing off.

Polaris left the command room and headed for the mess hall where lunch is being served. She likes to eat in the mess room with her soldiers, she’s very casual with her status as a member of the royal family and still acts like she’s in her old ship Starslam when she first went off to explore the vastness of space. The palace does have a grand dining hall but that’s only for special events and parties, plus she likes the plainer food that the mess hall serves.

Stepping into the mess hall, Polaris saw palace staff and guards eating. Looking around she spots her granddaughter near the condiments station and the refreshments, manning the barbecue grill. The food on the grill ranges from massive prawns, to big caterpillar-looking insects and big red spiders. Which she’s cooking up and serving to the line of palace staff. Galatea loves to cook and when she isn't making golems, she can be found cooking something.

“So grandma what’s going to be the Oni Empire punishment for this?” Galatea ask from the massive barbecue grill she’s manning.

"Yes Queen Lum is going to make an example out of the commander. She doesn't want to repeat what happen with her parents," Polaris said.

"They were asking for it, making Eclipsa mad, is a death wish. She can literary smash through any space force, like she did with the Riofaldians. Or when she toss the Trisolarans home planet into one of their suns when they used that probe to attack the scout ship," Galatea said.

"They followed the Dark Forest logic. Using probes that can travel at light speed to destroy any ships that come close to their system, thinking that it's better to destroy then try to even think about just greeting other races," Polaris said. (3)

"Where is Eclipsa?" Galatea ask.

"She's heading home after she took care of that living planet, Hellstar Remina. She crushed it and rip it apart, now it's body is being mined," Polaris said. (4)

"Should we head back too?" Galatea ask.

"Might as well, seeing we're close. Besides, I want to meet this human that caught Sunset's interest," Polaris said.

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Author's Note

1 - Shinsekai yori: From the New World

Urusei Yatsura

2 - Cannon God Exaxxion

3 - Trisolarans from the Remembrance of Earth's Past novels by Liu Cixin

The basis of Dark Forest theory. All civilizations in the universe destroy all other civilizations they meet because they can't establish trust. Most likely due to communication difficulty because of the extreme distance, completely different physiology, or maybe it's just not economical to deal with cultural differences and subsequent wars arising from it.

4 - Hellstar Remina manga