[ 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 .

Sargent Wilks sat feeling somewhat confused about why he was being raked over the coals because of a drop-ship malfunction. The tribunal stared at him angrily while asking the same questions over and over again. He felt like he'd been asked how the pod malfunctioned by seven different people, and now an eighth was asking. 
 
 `` You expect us to believe that a billion dollar pod manufactured by Stegus Corp, with triple redundant guidance systems and a host of tech meant to keep it together under high g-force, the vacuum of space, and under heavy ordinance fire just disintegrated upon reentry into H1M1's atmosphere?'' The woman who he could n't quite place was almost spitting out each word. 
 
 `` No ma'am. Like I said before,'' he said nervously `` it was after main reentry. The capsule passed through something, a cloud or layer of atmosphere that never happened on any simulations, and then all the tech went down. It was a few seconds after that that the shell peeled off in bits.'' 
 
 `` That's completely unbelievable Sargent.'' The woman huffed. Someone approached her and whispered in her here and she sneered even more. `` I have nothing more for this... person.'' He later learned that she was the technical liaison between Stegus Corp and the military. 
 
 Another questioner leaned forward in his seat to look down upon Wilks. 
 
 `` So the story so far is the pod dissolved, you pulled the e-chute in your suit and got dumped into the ocean, is that right?'' The man said in a seemingly nice tone. 
 
 `` Yes sir.'' Wilks responded. 
 
 `` And after that you found yourself on an island without any rations...'' 
 
 `` Yes sir, the rations were in a pack built into the pod along with weapons and ordinance.'' 
 
 `` But you were n't issued a weapon for this flight, is that correct?'' 
 
 `` No sir, this was just a simulation. We were supposed to be popped, attempt a no-g egress, ingress and return.'' 
 
 `` But you ended up on planet?'' 
 
 `` Yes sir'' Wilks responded, again. 
 
 `` So for four days you were on planet without equipment, no beacon, and no weapon and survived on this little island.'' The man said more as a statement than a question. 
 
 `` Please tell us the events that lead to you eating the camping party.'' The man asked seeming a little more frustrated. 
 
 `` People keep asking me that and I do n't understand what they mean. What camping party? I did n't eat anyone sir.'' Wilks said sheepishly. 
 
 `` Sargent, did you or did you not hunt down, kill, and eat while you were on the island?'' 
 
 `` Well... yeah... uh... yes sir. On day three... I uh... I was pretty hungry at that point and had n't been able to catch any fish or anything, so I went inland...'' he recounted. 
 
 `` And...'' the man asked. 
 
 `` And there were these crabs, sorta hairy but like crabs we have back home... and um... they climbed up on this tree I guess. I mean it looked sorta like a tree but not really our kind of tree. I figured they might be edible, so I tried to get them out of the tree but they went pretty high up. At that point I had a sharp rock already so I just hacked the tree down.'' Wilks continued to tell the panel. 
 
 The man sat back and commented. `` Let the record show that this is the point where Sargent Wilks assaulted,'' he looked down at a paper in front of him `` Fluh Nor Marginonin'' he spoke slowly over the last three syllables. 
 
 `` What? I did n't assault anyone there sir.'' Wilks protested. 
 
 `` Go on with your story please.'' 
 
 `` But I...'' 
 
 `` I said continue!'' The man barked. 
 
 `` um... I... I do n't know. I um grabbed the three crabs... and skewered them and then chopped up the tree for the fire.'' 
 
 `` Let the record show this is this point where Sargent Wilks has assaulted,'' looking at his paper again, `` Tee Kree Anook, Tee Kree Anoll, and Tee Kree Anob, and killed Fluh Nor Marginonin,'' he said more fluidly this time. 
 
 `` I... do n't... what?'' Wilks was confused trying to match up what the man was saying with what was in his head about the events. He had been alone on the island the entire time. He'd never met anyone that he could have assaulted much less killed anyone. 
 
 `` Then what happened mister Wilks?'' The man asked. 
 
 `` I cooked the crabs sir?'' Wilks said hesitantly. 
 
 `` And...?'' The man prompted. 
 
 `` And ate them sir?'' Will replied. 
 
 The man sighed as if he'd heard what he needed to. The rest of the panel seemed to draw back in disgust. 
 
 `` Let it be noted that this is the point where Sargent Wilks killed and ingested Tee Kree Anook, Tee Kree Anoll, and Tee Kree Anob.'' 
 
 The man looked down harshly at Wilks. `` Do you understand that your stomach has cost us irreparable harm with a people we've only just met. Not only that but it may have set us back with the other hundred planets that they've been in contact with. They wo n't even speak with us right now and keep calling us'The Eaters'!'' 
 
 `` But... but I... I just at some crabs... I do n't....'' Wilks stumbled out his words. 
 
 `` Those'crabs' and that'tree' were an adolescent camping party and their equivalent of a scout master. Not only that they were the children of Tee Kree Amoon, the recently designated ambassador to Earth. Worse still is that the Gureff, this species of Arthropods are vegitarians. They're also sentient and have a hive mind of a sort. So as you roasted their children alive over a fire made of their caregiver's dead body the entire world of Gureff watched.'' He took a breath from his rant. 
 
 `` Now we have to figure out what to do about this and whether we can spin this to our advantage in negotiations or whether we'll be shunned by our newly found neighbors.'' 
 
 `` I... um...'' 
 
 `` That's enough Wilks. Your mouth has done enough damage. You are excused.'' The man waved his hand and Wilks reluctantly picked up his hat and exited the room. 
 
 All he could think about on the confusing walk out was'Eaters, they call us The Eaters.'
