Ves assumed a more confident and domineering posture. He had to convey the impression that he
had a 'god' on his side and did not have much restraint towards the idea of sending her out on
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Minister Shederin Purnesse made the same conclusions and began to feed a lot of useful advice and
tips on how Ves should approach this conversation.
"Not enough. It is not enough, patriarch." The old man spoke over a private communication channel.
"You need to look and sound more arrogant and vindictive. The pescans are accustomed to bowing
their heads in front of the arrogant nunsers, so our goal is to tap into their old psychological
reflexes. Do not forget that you hold the power of life and death over the remaining survivors. You
need to treat these aliens as if they are already at your mercy."
The foreign minister was correct. Ves needed to fully play into this act in order to lower the chance
that Great Chief Jaharon would act in spite or make any other outrageous moves.
"Do not talk about opening the portal or surrendering the control room first. That will make you
sound desperate and give more leverage to the aliens. Instead, approach this conversation from the
perspective of a leader who already has everything in hand but wants to extract more value out of a
weak race. Ask more questions about the pescans. Make it look as if you are a collector that wants to
survey his wares."
Though that sounded a bit strange to Ves, he quickly made the necessary adjustments.
"Jaharon." He addressed the tired-looking alien directly. "As you can clearly see, your race stood no
chance in defeating my 'goddess' and champion. None of the subordinates you have left can offer
any meaningful resistance against us. While your crimes towards our great human race are great, I
still see value in your people. Not many members of your race are alive anymore. They have become
rare, and everything that is scarce holds greater value than before. I would prefer it if you do not
make an unwise decision and spoil my merchandise."
The alien leader looked meeker and less defiant than before. Just as predicted, Jaharon fell back into
a more subservient aspect of himself when he thought he was facing an overwhelmingly powerful
group of a superior race.
[We ask for living. Too small left. Never ask for fight. Woman god destroyed our big god. No longer
tunnel to distant stars. Death and block is waiting us. We are lost.]
Huh?
Jaharon threw out a lot of information in very little words. Ves had to ask a few more questions and
enlist the aid of Minister Shederin to decipher what the aliens were saying.
Through the confusing but also illuminating words of the pescan leader that had been driven into
despair, Ves and the others managed to puzzle out the alien master plan.
Even if it was not quite accurate or complete, Ves strongly felt that this was the reason for
everything that happened in this abandoned alien facility!
It started from the moment the pescans evacuated into this pocket space in haste.
Just as many people had already guessed, the colonization fleet of the founders of Davute truly
struck too quickly and ferociously for the pescan remnants to evacuate too many individuals and
supplies.
The aliens who barely managed to escape the genocide of their entire race had a miserable time
while reluctantly trying to build a settlement on these floors.
They did not dare to spread out and occupy the rest of the prison because they felt it was too
oppressive and would bring them too far away from their other surviving compatriots.
Although the aliens tried to start up farms and set up water recycling plants, they simply did not
bring enough supplies to sustain their current level of population once they depleted their stockpile
of prepared emergency food containers!
This had a strong psychological effect on the pescans. Not only did many of them lose the prospect
of having children, they might even have to kill off the weakest and most useless survivors among
them in order to ensure the entire population remained sustainable over the long term!
[Dark and death stalk the god prison. No longer cry as crying as died. Anti-home no home for us too
dark and no life. Future is in stars of distant. Must find leave.]
The pescans couldn't stand the thought of living in this ancient prison for the rest of their lives!
It did not matter that it was safe and completely hidden from the humans that had built their new
settlements on top of the former cities of the pescan civilization.
The pescans wanted to live! They wanted to evacuate from the planet by whatever means possible
and take refuge with the aliens who still managed to defend their territories against the relentless
onslaught of the human invaders.
Fortunately, the ancient prison might have become a shadow of its former self, but the pescans who
explored its state managed to gain limited control of it and learn a few pieces of crucial information.
The pescans somehow gained access to a feed to normal space. This enabled them to study the
humans over many years and conclude that breaking out on their own would instantly get them
killed by lots of mechs.
The remnant aliens also figured out how to control certain internal processes such as putting people
in and out of the cells as well as take people directly who were present in the middle of the
Government District of Kotor City!
After a bit more tinkering with the primary control room, the pescans also managed to discover the
greatest secret of this ancient prison.
Its largest and most well-defended cell held a living prisoner!
[The ancient forgotten god bleeds with vengeance and freedom. Dark but sleep, can help break cage
that is wrapping after cooperation. Needed much words to placate god and beg for stomach pass to
distant stars. Too bleed is weak must make you human stabbers turn knifes away.]
"So that is what was going on all of this time!" General Verle managed to deduce the truth. "There
was a phase whale sleeping in the central cell that could break out of the prison and take the pescan
survivors out of human-occupied space. However, the Great Chief Jaharon did not have confidence
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