[ WP ] Humanity is pushed to the brink of extinction and you could n't be happier .

It started back on Earth, in the days where only had one world. We found something, a device left behind by beings long since gone. The Stone could put out power infinitely, we no longer had to depend on scarce resources for electricity. We thought we had solved everything, that we could fix our world. And we did, we were no longer at war with each other, we had peace. The trouble was, the stone could only generate so much power in a given time frame, and we were spreading it thin, and each generation our needs only grew. 
 
 We started searching for more stones, we spread across the stars searching system after system. We found it, on a small world. The beings there were primitive by our standards, industrialised but pre-FTL. We estimated a total of 8 billion souls. They were using a Stone to power their cities, they were heavily reliant on The Stone. We just came down and took it. It wasn ’ t hard, their weapons were no match for ours, we slaughtered their guards and took it for ourselves. Humanity could grow again. The beings of that world, however, were plunged into an age of darkness. Without power, all their infrastructure was useless. Sure they had batteries which stored power for a while, but after that it was chaos. Half the population died within the first year, lack of food in the non-agricultural areas. The other half were in all out war. We didn ’ t care. A few people made a fuss, but we needed that power. 
 
 We survived, for a time, but our population only grew. Eventually we needed more and more Stones. We kept searching, and we found them and took them. World after world, destroyed by us. Until one day we met a race that were as powerful as us, that possessed several Stones. The Ashen wanted the same thing we did. 
 
 The Galaxy erupted in war. There were no rules of combat anymore, both sides needed the stones, loss of a single one would mean the deaths of tens of billions. Soon others joined in the battle, the Natari, the Grox, the Vohm. Death and destruction followed, even the worlds that had no stones became collateral. Hell would be paradise compared to the Galaxy in the war. 
 
 I had enough. I gathered a meeting of the Stone-less races, the ones with FTL capabilities. I called upon others, those of the Stone Races that were also tired of our reliance on themI told them that they needed to unite, they needed to fight, and that I could give them the opportunity. We became the Resistance. 
 
 We fought them, all of them. They weren ’ t expecting me and other other defectors at first, we managed to steal a few Stones, enough to cripple them. Then the Resistance Fleet would come in and destroy the rest. We went world after world, destroying the Stone Races. 
 
 We won, we gathered all the stones and launched them straight into the nearest black hole. We never found out who built them, or who spread them across the worlds. Perhaps they were destroyed in a war for power, just like we were. We ’ ll probably never find out. 
 
 Humanity is gone now. The ‘ Great Terran Rebublic ’ is no more, without the Stones we could n't sustain our populations, and those that survived fought back with all their might. There ’ s only a few thousand of us left. The Galaxy might just have a chance now. 

