Slut Galaxy/Chapter One/Tell me more about the warlord
From Create Your Own Story
She nods, then starts to speak. You get the impression she is very learned about this part of galactic history, as if it's taught in school.
"Well, he was a human, just like you and me," the doctor says. "He burst onto the galactic scene at only twenty-one years old, when he led an armed takeover of Old Earth, seizing power and becoming sole emperor of that planet. Humanity was a major force in the universe even then, so that made waves throughout the galaxy. A few years later he launched a series of invasions of the nearby planets, taking first Mars, then Venus, then swiftly afterwards the rest of the Sol system. Any resistance was swiftly crushed.
"After consolidating his power, he bided his time, waiting for the right moment to make his next move. That time came a decade later, at the outbreak of the First Galactic Civil War. He initially sided with the rebels, using both his own genius and the military might of the Sol system to make great gains. After bringing the republic to its knees, he switched sides, supporting them in return for promises of new systems being donated to his rule. His intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the rebel council let him swiftly turn the tide of the war. He seized planet after planet, system after system, until at last the rebels capitulated. But after the conclusion of the war, when the victorious republic asked him to remove his troops from the systems he had "liberated", he refused, instead using his newfound strength to wipe out the republic's remaining forces. That left him the sole ruler of a vast and powerful empire.
"Of course, back then the galaxy was not unified. But he now controlled the single largest military in the Milky Way. It took no more than twenty years to bring the rest of the known universe to heel. By the time he was fifty, he had conquered every last system, and stamped out all resistance. He was the undisputed master of the Milky Way.
"But he was not a benevolent man. He was cruel, tyrannical and obssessive. And with no one left to fight, he let his other passions take over. He became utterly consumed by his libido, spending all day sating his carnal desires. He maintained a vast harem of women from all over the galaxy, but that wasn't enough. He began to consider the entire empire as his harem; that every woman he ruled over was his and his alone. And he realised that he did not want to share his women with any other men. So he had his scientists develop a virus in secret.
"It was that virus which delivered the genetic code which eradicated our ability to have male children. When the galaxy realised what he had done, there was uproar. Armed rebellion was launched, and after a long and bloody war, the warlord was finally toppled. But sadly, destroying his regime was not enough. It was already too late - the virus was free, and the damage was done. With no way to reverse the changes, males all over the galaxy died out. The virus did not kill existing men, it just meant no more could be born. Yet the result was the same either way: within two hundred years there were no men left. In the years since, we have sought relentlessly for a cure." She looks at you. "And finally, I think we've found one."
She smiles sweetly. "I hope that answered your question. Any others?"
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