[ WP ] Humans are successful partly because we 're omnivores and this holds true on the galactic scale as well . In the future humans have quickly become feared throughout the Milky Way as our soldiers are ready to eat almost anything ... or anyone .

`` You mean to tell me you've *never* had a hamburger?'' Corporal Chavez said as he and fireteam, intermingled with humanity's new allies, the Genaevans, sat in a foxhole. 
 
 `` Never,'' the Genaevan designated as AD43 said bluntly. `` I do not even know what a *hamburger* is.'' 
 
 Chavez threw his hands in the air, `` I've been to your planet! You have cows, or what we'd call a cow.'' 
 
 `` What is a cow?'' 
 
 Chavez looked at the other human in the squad, Strickland, who just shook his head, `` I'm not getting involved with this shit again.'' He turned back to the machine gun placement and placed his arm on top of it. 
 
 Chavez looked at the other Genaevans, designed AD56 and sighed heavily, `` Uhm, I do n't know what you would call them. They are those large grazing animals, uhm, they only eat like the stuff that grows in the ground. 
 
 56 nodded, `` 43, he refers to the Talyn.'' 
 
 43 looked back at Chavez, a look of horror and disgust on his face, `` You would *eat* the most sacred animal on our planet?'' 
 
 Chavez held up his hands as Strickland chuckled, `` Well no! I thought the Vlaso's were sacred to your people!'' 
 
 `` Both are sacred! And you would the Vlaso's as well?'' 
 
 `` I do not understand humans.'' 
 
 `` Listen,'' Chavez sighed, `` you ai n't never had a good meal like lobster.'' 
 
 43 shook his head, `` You humans will eat anything.'' 
 
 `` We eat what's available and nutritious! It's not like we do it for fun.'' 
 
 Strickland coughed. 
 
 `` Okay, okay, but that was hundreds of years ago!'' 
 
 43 leaned forward on his legs, `` What else do humans eat?'' 
 
 `` Told you not to start,'' Strickland whispered and Chavez sighed heavily. 
 
 `` Tell you what, we get to Earth someday, I'll buy you a hamburger.'' 
 
 `` Hey quiet,'' Strickland whispered as he placed the MG against his shoulder, `` I've got movement up ahead.'' 
 
 Chavez and the two Genaevans shrunk down into their pit and 56 joined Strickland's side to search the area. The four remained quiet for a long time, but 43 kept glancing over to Chavez every few moments, albeit still a little shook up over the fact that humans would eat their sacred animals. Both of them. 
 
 Everyone was silent for sometime as the bushes in front of their foxhole continued to rattle. It was n't until a few minutes passed when a voice called out, `` Charlie!'' 
 
 `` Foxtrot!'' Strickland replied and looked up as Sergeant Hardy and FR78 stepped out of the treeline. The two of them were carrying two different items, Hardy with a rather large animal that looked like a bunny and FR78 with a handful of bark and leaves. 
 
 The two slid into the foxhole a moment later and laid the items down in the middle of it. `` The Genaevan forces are still pushing hard on the Capital, we should expect Zupach's coming through the treeline within the next day or so.'' 
 
 `` Finally,'' 56 whispered as he stared upwards, `` revenge.'' 
 
 `` Yes, all in due time AD56. For now, we eat,'' FR78 said as he handed each of his soldiers a piece of bark and a few leaves. 
 
 Hardy on the other hand sighed heavily, `` Chavez, get a fire going,'' Hardy looked at the large animal in front of him, `` I do n't know what this is, but its meaty and I'm hungry.'' 
 
 Chavez nodded as 43 glanced over to the animal and then to him, he looked rather disturbed. 56 and 78 did n't even look up from their own food, most Genaevans were assimilated to the human's eating patterns, but 43 continued to question them. `` This is a hamburger?'' 
 
 He laughed, there was no hope for 43 truly understanding what humans ate, `` Sure 43,'' he went up to grab some sticks, `` sure.'' 
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