[ WP ] Much like animals , humans go through a mating season . For most if the year we all go about our lives without any sex-drive . Then , for two weeks every year , the hormones rage .

For two hundred years, we have ruled the entire Galaxy. 
 
 Our ancestors had looked out to the stars, but not for long. With cold logic, they built in a few thousand years the sort of civilization that we have only seen on other planets after aeons of intelligent life. 
 
 Some of our ancestors wrote tales of aliens who would come from the vastness of outer-space. In the end, it was we who ended up becoming the first aliens for most inhabitants of the galaxy. And each of the other races we discovered was a lesser species than our own. 
 
 The sapient extraterrestrials we've conquered all seem to be sensous, simpering things. Not like us at all. Mating almost all the time. Spending the rest thinking of the last time they'd mated, or the next time they might do so. 
 
 Weak, every one of them. None of them had lasted for more than a century when we turned our sights to their planets. 
 
 Yet, we do have a weakness of our own. A secret which none of us can reveal upon pain of torture and death. We have kept it hidden from our subjects for all these years. 
 
 All extraterrestrials are barred from Earth in late April and early May. Humans on other planets sequester themselves during the same period. Our sapient subjects think we are meditating during our Holy Month. 
 
 Only we know the truth of what goes on.
