[ WP ] Aliens have arrived on modern earth . Instead of conquest or an invitation to a larger galactic society , they instead kneel and worship as us gods .

Mankind had finally achieved it's dream of colonizing a foreign planet: the God of War was hemmed in and forced to kneel before the plows and picks of hard labor. His red soil yielded mutated Martian agriculture, and his bones gave way to deposits of rare minerals. The God of War was conquered by man. 
 
 Egotistical and proud, humanity believed themselves to be the only space-faring species in the known galaxy. It made us arrogant and narcissistic. We came to view ourselves as above other organic life. 
 
 A century after the colonization of Mars, an interstellar fleet of alien ships entered orbit around Earth. We were thrown for a loop at the discovery of interstellar life, but their purpose confused us even more: they landed on Earth and dropped to their knees, offering symbols of human prayer and tributes of foreign technology, exotic meals, and materialistic goods. Translators between both races discerned the aliens' meaning: 
 
 They thought we were Gods. 
 
 They had heard our broadcasts over the years, and heard that we managed to conquer Mars - which was coincidentally the name of their all-benevolent God. We considered correcting them, but.. they were offering us free technology, goods, and labor. It could n't hurt to seize the opportunity as it stood while giving them something to worship. 
 
 We allowed them to build temples of grandeur on our planets, on their planets - on planets that had n't even been discovered by humanity yet. They built entire religious cities above our star, letting our elderly and ill travel there to live our their days in paradise Their entire race surrendered themselves to our rule, and in return we granted them the illusion of a pious living. We sent selected officials to'bless' their leaders, to grant them a'safe passage' to heaven upon death, and to'absolve' them of their sins. 
 
 With their technology and newly discovered star maps, we discovered that another space-faring empire was only a few systems away from Sol. Our new servants claimed they were heathens - that we should convert them to our faith or purge them. In our arrogance, we agreed. 
 
 The faithful rose by the millions to wage war - not a single drop of human blood was shed. Planets were bombarded, genocide was committed, and in the final moments of the war, the unfaithful surrendered and pledged themselves to our rule. Our alien servants killed them in blood lust regardless, claiming that their piety was'impure'. It was disgusting and unneeded, but what was a trillion lives to a race of Gods? 
 
 The religious fervor of our worshipers got to our heads. We began to **truly think that we were Gods. ** Our ships scoured the galaxy, and with it came the fall of numerous alien civilizations - genocide of the heathens by the trillions. Mankind's objectives turned from peaceful expansion to a flat-out crusade. For each world we purged, our servants and their Godly masters settled down in the husks of entire empires. By the end of the millennium, we ruled over several hundred races as violent, wrathful Gods. Benevolence was saved only for the faithful - the unfaithful were enslaved and sent to work deep in mineral plants and the infamous singularity mines. 
 
 Maybe we are n't actually Gods. Maybe we're a devilish scourge sent to plague the universe. Maybe none of that matters - for the time we're alive, we'll live and die like Gods. Such is the human way of life.
