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crews were Kiritak and Bsidd, and they had similar thoughts concerning their role here and the irony of it all.
           So as Dak went back to another pile of debris and dipped both mechanical hands into it like scooping up a clump of prickly snow, he realized that what his mech was holding had been lizard material that would soon be recycled into Star Force material. They weren’t just taking out the trash and dumping it in a star, they were correcting a massive wrong. Taking the infrastructure of a murdering race and turning it into the infrastructure of a protective beacon of light in the galaxy.
           That gave the mountains of lizard undercity around them different meaning, even as larger mechs were walking up the banks of those piles to tear up more exposed levels and add to the loose material that Dak was picking up. He and the others were but an army of ants chewing away at what looked like an insurmountable challenge, but then again that’s what most races thought of the lizards themselves. That they couldn’t be beaten, and even when you did manage to best them in one system they simply spread out to 10 new ones. It couldn’t be done, many had said, and still said, but here they were, bit by bit chipping away at the lizard empire and doing it in an honorable and civilized fashion.
           Dak and the other ants would do their part, day in and day out, knowing not to look at the big picture, daunting as it was. No, all they had to do was worry about their individual tasks and let the Monarchs and Archons worry about coordinating and planning everything. That’s what they did, and had done from the beginning, and they hadn’t led Humanity astray, let alone the other races and individuals that had joined the Star Force empire.
           And with each addition came more ants, and every year that passed saw those ants reproducing in even greater numbers. More and more people like Dak had grown up within Star Force, grown wise, strong, and experienced, contributing their tiny individual power into the greater whole and trusting in their leadership implicitly.
           For as Dak was literally seeing around him, an army of ants large enough could move mountains, and give Star Force enough time to grow even larger and those mountains would become little more than warmup exercises. If people thought the lizards were intractable, they were going to find a new definition to the word once this war was won and Star Force had time to put down firm roots, for it wasn’t going anywhere, and this light of civilization was going to shine so bright that the entire galaxy would see it.
           Dak glanced up from his controls as his mech was walking in line with a full load and looked out across the thousands of others mechs around him, knowing this was but a tiny dot on the planet now covered with Star Force worker ants and took pride in that fact. They were tearing down the corrupt and building up the light, one scoop of debris at a time, and daring the races of the galaxy to say it couldn’t be done one more time .
          
            
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             April 2, 3137
           Anchess System (ADZ)
           Mothere
          
             Paget passed through the airlock on the ground floor of his residential building, waiting impatiently for it to cycle out the nitrogen/oxygen air and replace it with the ammonia/oxygen that would allow him to breathe properly without his suit. It took forever, as usual, but the doors eventually parted and allowed the Gnar to walk out and begin heading down the hallways seeing a mix of armored and unarmored kin in passing.
           He didn’t remove his armor until he got back to his domicile, then pulled off the various pieces and removed his mask, setting it all in a specialized nook and hooking up the tank to the refiller. Paget stretched his stubby arms out, feeling the