Challenge #01762-D301: Grave Error
"We destroyed the protective forces of this colony : this human colony is ours!"
[few days later]
"We lost 1/4th of our soldiers in ambush in the city and in the wood, half of our soldiers are sick because the food and water stock are poisoned AND all of our communication devices got destroyed..." -- Anon Guest
Everyone agreed. It was a very nice planet.
The Cho'vith wanted it enough to bomb a few extant settlements and encourage whatever lived there that somewhere else was the place to be. They should have been alarmed that the immediate reaction from the colonists was to set their own encampments on fire and vanish into the shrubbery. They should have worried about where they had gone. They should have checked what species the previous colonists were.
They really should have known better.
The invading Cho'vith took over the surviving infrastructure and took advantage of the flowing water nearby. Used the resources that the humans had left behind. Started building.
Started dying.
The water was adulterated. First with a pathogen from alien body waste, and then by a simple chemical that couldn't be boiled into oblivion. Something kept breaking in to the supply shed and adulterating the food stores. Ammo went missing. Power packs went missing. Weapons went missing.
Half the troops sent out to forage didn't come back. Something kept sabotaging Cho'vith equipment. Something kept wrecking their uniforms. Something kept slashing the anti-insect nets, rendering them useless.
And just when the Cho'vith thought it could not possibly get worse, a scout reported exactly what they were up against.
Humans.
The deadliest, most unpredictable, most mentally unstable species known to Galactic Society. Even the Vorax didn't mess with humans, and they were class five Deathworlders. The realisation that they had angered the wrong species came far too late to stop what happened next.
War.
Something the humans had excelled at for thousands of years of their evolution. For thousands of years of their civilisation. They had at their fingertips the knowledge of weapons that could cause so much destruction that the soil would be incapable of supporting life for millennia.
Everyone agreed. It was a very nice planet.
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