SECTION 29
With Admiral Merros dead, his fleet shattered, and Ulnar’s squadron no longer capable of offering resistance, the Ka’slaq fleet orbits St. Germaine and subjects it to the same devastating bombardment as Endymion and Baal already suffered. Apparently invincible, the aliens continue their drive into human space, spreading destruction and devastation in their wake. Star League scientists advance many theories to explain the single-minded campaign of annihilation the Ka’slaq pursue, but no one can be sure of their purpose. Xenophobic and genocidal, the Ka’slaq exterminate the inhabitants of dozens of planets as they plunge deeper and deeper into the Star League.
Another Legion fleet meets them near the Solar system, but is no better prepared than the last one. Brushing aside all opposition, the Ka’slaq bombard Earth and the other planets around the Sun. The Legion had triumphed over the Medusae, the Cometeers, the treachery of Stephen Oreo, and the malice of the evil Basilisk, but against this power, they proved impotent. Over the years to follow, humanity slowly declines to extinction, hunted ruthlessly by the aliens from beyond Orion. The story of mankind eventually ends.
David Ulnar’s name is remembered in the twilight years. Refugees from St. Germaine passed on the story of his campaign, portraying him as a coward, a traitor, and an ineffectual incompetent. Before the last human colony falls, his name has surpassed those of his infamous ancestors, the Lords of the Purple Hall, and even that of Eric the Pretender, as mankind’s greatest betrayer. For although Vice-Admiral Ulnar never actually collaborated with the foe, all of his efforts in the campaign against the Ka’slaq are seen as a betrayal of the Legion’s trust. It is a failure Ulnar himself felt as he died, fighting to the end but incapable of stopping humanity’s alien scourge.
Because Ulnar failed to find and exploit the weaknesses of the aliens, the campaign was lost. To try again, go back to section 1 and start over. Good luck!