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Truthfully, logically, you should just be <span class="mu-s">grateful to be alive</span>. Your race lost the evolutionary arms race, just abstracted to a technological difference instead of a biological one. You were defeated by a "superior" species. Any and all second chances are not normal or to be expected by any other species in the galaxy. You should consider yourself lucky, and perhaps even grateful, that the Jaxtians did not finish the job when they easily could have.
But...
That doesn't change what happened, nor does it calm the fears and doubts and scars of those born after the genocides. The original survivors who crawled from the life pods are almost all dead now; but even so, the question remains. What's stopping them from doing it again? Some sort of new utopian ideal of the Hegemony? Or is it merely the novelty of being a multi-species empire that will one day wear off? Despite many strides by Hass Takar and Avae Anak to grow your populations and use the conquered Hazaar worlds to grow many new communities of Vetucker and Swall; you are still a minority in the Hegemony and its greatest institution, as well as sole Supreme Rulership, remains firmly in Jaxtian hands. You've been killed before when it was convenient to do so, and you could simply be killed again. Your only assurance is a <span class="mu-s">promise</span> that they won't. For the Swall, the Hegemony has become a new, great government and power to live in and serve by necessity; though not serve out of choice or love.
You are now <span class="mu-s">Grover</span> again.
