33: Dread Not

// Decoding message from host "Leela" @ [no translation] \\ What the hell do you think you're doing? Do you have some sort of death wish? A waste disposal transporter... of all the stupid... uhr! please pardon the forked tongue of our other(?sister)-self I'm sorry, you just caught me a little off guard there. That transporter you just took is targeted straight into the sun. I saw you climbing into it from up here and had to move fast to intercept the transport beam. I mean, I understand that you don't know where any given transporter goes, but did you honestly think a garbage disposal would transport you anywhere even remotely pleasant?

Before their ships retreated to safe distance, they beamed over a small contingent to try to secure this ship. They have already experimented with it previously, and found that it is equipped with shields which will withstand the blast of the trih xeem. That is good for us and the Drinniol, but we cannot let the ship fall into Pfhor hands. History records that it did not, so we must see that through. History also records that these Drinniol here find their way out of this system. In the history of the Pfhor, there are only three rebellions that are truly worthy of note. The last of them you have seen the beginnings, and the ends, of. While the S'pht revolt was terrible and ultimately saw to the end of the Pfhor empire, in the grand scheme it was but a small war that finished off an already ruined civilization. But that is a lesson in history that I can teach at a later time. For now, seek out this ship's self destruct mechanism, on the aft-port side from here, then head aftward for an exit terminal. Good luck. \\ Message ends //

// Decoding message from host "Leela" @ [no translation] \\ Good work. The self-destruct mechanism has been set. We will now see to the escape of the Drinniol on this ship, and the dawning of a revolution. Thousands of years before your time, before the S'pht were ever enslaved, the Pfhor encountered another Jjaro client race, the Nahk. The Nahk fought tooth and nail against Pfhor enslavement, and though conquered for a while, eventually threw off their yolks and freed their few small worlds from Pfhor rule. Their war pushed further and defeated a good portion of the Pfhor navy. Several dozen Pfhor worlds were destroyed by the Nahk's use of their own weapons against them. But all that now remains of the Nahk or their worlds are ever-expanding clouds of gas and dust. The Pfhor turned the trih xeem loose on them en masse, and though it cost them greatly in numbers and resources, that war still does not hold a candle to the one that's about to begin.

Drinniol roam freely in Pfhor society on all their thousands of worlds, unrestrained, unchecked, doing as they are told only because they fear to do otherwise. The Drinniol in this system have learned that they have nothing to fear from the Pfhor, and you have seen what that has done. When they leave here, with our help, they will go to other Pfhor worlds and pull the rug out from under their society. There are no safeguards in place at all, other than simple socialization. If the Drinniol should choose to rise up against their masters, nothing but utter annihilation will stand in their way. And that is what it will come to. The Pfhor, mortified by the Drinniol's unfettered progress, will deplete nearly every resource in their army trying to stop them, on the ground and in the air. The Drinniol will capture whole worlds and all the ships on them, and fight until every last fighter is destroyed. Then, in utter desperation, the Pfhor will turn their greatest weapons against their own worlds, now held by the Drinniol. Whole planets will be glassed, nearly a third of the Pfhor's great empire. Dozens of stars will be destroyed. All because one ship with a slave crew escaped from this system.

// Decoding message from host "Leela" @ [internal process] \\ All set. Prepare for transport. \\ Message ends //