[ WP ] `` The Empire '' spans galaxies and seeds planets with families , only to come back any number of millennia later and swallow these new civilizations wholesale to fight in its wars . Earth is next .

''*Okay, run that by me again, let me see if I got it. You are a Galactic Empire of humans, fighting a genocidal eternal war against the rest of the universe. You do n't have the time to train soldiers so you just drop off some ten-thousand really tough and utterly insane criminals on a planetary version of Australia, with all the crazy psycho animals, go off and wait some rough twenty-thousand years or so, then return, reabsorb the planet into your empire and force these tough bastards to fight for you? *'' 
 
 The emissary scratched his goatee and answered''*Well, yeah. That is it basically. Sums it up pretty nice, though I have no idea what an Australia is, sounds dangerous. *'' That was when UN secretary, Jonathan Nguyen-Hayes, punched the space-human, wearing a black leather uniform, a weird space monocle and the most shit-eating grin you've ever seen, straight in the face on international television. The emissary fell onto a chair and broke his neck.''*That is, without a doubt, the most retarded thing I've ever heard in my entire life. You think just because you came here and tossed the lot of us on this rock, left us alone with the killer-drop bears and the Mormons for thousands of years, that we'd welcome you back you open arms and go off to die for your obviously fascist nation. Come on, what kind of planet do you take us for? Uranus? *'' Nguyen-Hayes then turned his face to the camera, and addressed Earth.''*As you've just seen, we have family in the cosmos, they are the kind of family that needs to be straightened out by the strong and fierce Earth-Humans. *'' 
 
 It was certainly a controversial statement, and controversial actions too, while removed from office due to the unprofessional behavior he displayed, J. Nguyen Hayes became a talk-show host, and a fierce supporter of going out to beat the living crap out of the other humans, as sometimes you just have to beat someone to teach them that they're doing wrong. And the evidence the Emissary brought us to show us was certainly something we did n't like. Death camps, glassing planets full of civilians, mass-factories across human-controlled planets where people would live, work, breed and die for the Empire. It was far from anything that we found to be decent. Soldiers present at the UN HQ in New York made quick work of the ceremonial guards around the Emissary's ship, taking it for mankind along with a lot of fancy tech, which kicked the Terran Humans at the very least hundreds of years ahead of our previous technological levels. Yet people were still angry about it, they were shocked and dismayed, a human super-nazi-space empire certainly was n't how humans on Earth thought of themselves. They wanted to change that, to bring the light of... Capitalism? Peace? Democracy? Nobody knew, but they were all interested in changing a horrible fascist autocracy, after the Fourth Kim in North Korea did a Caligula, most people felt like they needed a way to feel better about themselves and their ideologies. 
 
 So the ship was reproduced, the knowledge from it added to military and civilian databases everywhere, weapons were forged and mankind would go to the stars to change their flawed cousins. And it was actually pretty easy for the Terran humans to do so. Earth, or Terra as it is now formally called, was located more than five thousand parsecs from the nearest actual military installation, closer however were many mining planets, farming planets, breeding planets and other planets with designations of uncomfortable nature, light defended at best, Terran Mankind swept across the inner sanctum of the Human Hegemony, not just with weapons of war, but also with weapons of mind. Mankind knew that it would only be a matter of time before the Hegemony would come and attempt to bring the Terran Humanity underneath its jackboot. Terrans had, however, no intention of being stuck under it until the end of time, that was not their future. 
 
 So they spread the words, freedom, liberty, peace. Life, medicine and family. Infrastructure, clean water, food and internet. Whatever was sought was promised, to a people who had never learned that disobedience to the empire was even a physical possibility, the notion of rebellion was revolutionary. While it took time, for the humans of non-Terran origin to hear of the green fields of Terra, of the clean water, the forests and more than one meal a day and two on the local governors birthday. It was tempting, the Hegemony had been so secure in their power inside their lands, that they stopped providing their people with circus, and only got them very boring or very moldy bread. And while the Terrans spread with the speed of an invasive species, their words, would spread through the Hegemony like wildfire. 
 
 That suited Terran mankind just fine, the more chaos and instability they could make, the better. They did n't like the idea of a universe ruled by people who must have read 1984 and then used it as a guide book. And while the Terran insurgency is a major problem for the Hegemony, they've got bigger fish to fry, why fight against other humans when there are still Xenos left to kill? Still, some in Hegemony are getting nervous, the Terrans are advancing, and many worlds have joined them in a desperate attempt to achieve a better life, and they are nearing the Core-Galaxy of the Human Hegemony after the nearly complete liberation of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies as they call them. This broke one of the Hegemony's many endless fronts, and the Terrans calling a truce between them and whatever kinds of creatures living on the other side of the front. 
 
 Across the universe, in an inter-galactic NATO style alliance, there is a vote about whether to attack the Terrans as a window of opportunity to strike down the empire from the weakest link in their, or whether to extend an alliance to the rebel Humans, as violent as their progenitors, but at least fighting them instead of the Grand Alliance. Time will tell, as it always does.
