[ WP ] Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet , but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance . They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself . Neither side expected what the other would bring to war

Arch-Minister General Gxokloii of the Tni'il laughed at the pitiful demonstrations of earthly weapons. The earth diplomat stood by quietly, observing the chaos from the stellar embassy bay window. The general loomed over him, his translucent scales fluttered flushed in bold reds and yellows. `` Are you telling me that in the time it took your planet 100 laps around your fat, lazy star that these are the most'devastating' weapons you could develop? You barely have 10,000 battleships engaged in this fight.'' He chuckled, the translator buzzed and crackled, unable to translate the strange guttural sound. 
 
 `` We thought more of you, you know.'' He continued. `` We saw your nuclear weapons and nanotechnology and honestly thought this, *this* would be a battle that would be worthy of the Halls of the Tni'il gods, that your cleverness, in all of the galaxy, might have been a match to our own. My entire species, spread throughout this galaxy, has tuned into this spectacle expecting to observe a war, not this one-sided slaughter.'' 
 
 But still, the diplomat kept an increasingly unnatural cool. As ships crashed and smashed into fiery doom, the general wanted something more. `` Surely the knowledge of your species imminent destruction and enslavement weighs on your mind even now. Allow me to demonstrate!'' The general, with a mere point, singled out one of Jupiter's moons. 
 
 On command, a hole in time and space sliced down it's center and engulfed the moon's entire mass. 
 
 `` That! That is power.'' Said the General. `` And I could, just as quickly, turn this weapon onto your home. Upon your family and friends, crushed by the might of stars themselves!'' 
 
 But still, the diplomat held his cool. 
 
 `` Do all of your species feel nothing as you do?'' The General asked. `` This is the end.'' 
 
 `` It's impressive, General, it really is a testament to your combined might.'' But he still did not take his eyes off the battle as it raged. 
 
 `` Why then do you stall? Sign over the planet to me, give us your leaders and resources and, perhaps, I will exercise lenience, not as if you have any say in the situation. Your short lived species may yet make a fine zoological exhibit.'' 
 
 `` How long do your kind normally live?'' Asked the diplomat. 
 
 A moment lapsed as the translator calculated the units into familiar terms. ``... by your earth's units of time, nearly 900 years.'' 
 
 `` That's about what we calculated too, even our oldest man is barely a child to your race.'' 
 
 `` And I see you fight like one, too.'' 
 
 The diplomat let the insult slide. `` Last time you were here we figured out real quick there would be nothing we could do to match your level of technology in that window of time. That this would be a one sided slaughter.'' 
 
 A lieutenant quietly came to the general's side, trying to whisper into his superior's ear. The general growled at him. `` Not NOW, fool! Ca n't you see they're about to surrender?'' The aide backed away, shamed into silence. 
 
 `` So, what is it then? Why hesitate even one more moment? Are you waiting to deploy a secret weapon?'' 
 
 `` Secret? Oh, heavens no. The 10,000 battleships you see now are the 10,000 battleships we have.'' 
 
 `` Perhaps you just wish to see your species die slowly, is that it?'' 
 
 `` Not alone, at least.'' 
 
 Finally, the aide forcibly interjected, getting the general's full attention. But as they communed an earth vessel exploded next to the embassy, throwing debris in all directions. There, in the drifting wreckage, a small creature writhed in the void of space, freezing, asphyxiating. It took the general only a moment to understand what he was seeing was n't the pink of flesh and red of human blood. The Tni'il child, garbed in Earth Defense attire, barely grown into his scales, died right before his eyes in terrible agony. 
 
 `` We cloned just about 10,000 of them in all.'' Said the diplomat. `` It's funny, really, the notion of honor in an act of war, honestly it's something we've never really excelled at.'' Finally the diplomat turned to face the general, his eyes twinkled in the starlight. 
 
 `` Did n't you say this was being broadcast for your entire species to see?''
