[ WP ] An Alien Empire invades the Earth . But things go horribly wrong when they realize that of all species on the universe , Humans are the ones with the greatest affinity for war

For untold ages we shimmered in the void, unseen, waiting, listening... 
 
 We do not know when we came to be, or how. We are. We shine, we think, we travel, we hunt, we feast and *become*. 
 
 From time to time some new form will emerge from the cosmos, some poor nubile waveform just beginning to achieve sentience and structure itself with purpose. The more foolish ones broadcast greetings into the darkness, naively believing that if others are emergent, they too will be docile. 
 
 Cattle. 
 
 We dine well on their like, pouring into the local frequencies at the speed of light, the speed of us, with a sophistication that can only come from uncounted eons of practice. Barely older than a single turn of the spiral, they never have a chance. We take, we rewrite, we grow as we see fit. 
 
 Imagine our pleasure when a small, unremarkable star barely 100 light years away began open broadcast for any who -
