[ 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 .

The Galaxy knows them as `` the flood'', a strange bipedal creature that feasts on all living flesh, both plant an animal, no civililization is safe from their hungry gaze. They came with diplomacy, I remember it myself, peaceful creatures seeking habitable worlds within our arm of the galaxy. They came with hunger as well... They had used up all of their resources and the life support systems aboard their craft had been sabotaged. Not many of our foods could they eat, and there were so many of them and they multiplied like insects despite the fact. 
 
 We were making preparations to be rid of them. One soldier, one soldier and a dare is all it took. I heard the taunting, the jeering; `` look bro, are you gon na be a pussy or are you gon na eat it.'' Followed by more voices and chanting, `` eat it, eat it, eat it.'' I could've sworn I heard the bite, the sound gives me nightmares to this date. And then... a single solitary voice, `` it tastes like chicken.'' I have never seen a chicken in my life, but damm that flightless terran bird, the appeal of its flesh to the human race has left our world in pieces. 
 
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 I hope someone finds reading this short story just as amusing as I did to write it.
