The reward for success...total annihilation.

The Empire is vast, dominating 3/4ths of the Milky Way and soon to control the rest, with its sights beginning to look towards other galaxies. The collaboration of semi-immortal warlords that took Earth from a single planet civilization and grew it into the behemoth it is now have passed their tests, overcome their weaknesses, and created a civilization that is the shining beacon that protects and uplifts their neighbors.

They did it right. No backstabbing, no power grabbing, no evil. You would think the universe would welcome such success...but the truth is far from welcoming, as one of those warlords is about to discover in an archeological find hidden inside a gas giant.

The Empire is not the first to achieve this success. There has been a series of superior civilizations throughout history that rose to great heights, then fell suddenly...but they were smart enough to leave behind notes. All of them did, each building on the last to warn those in the future, hoping that the next to rise would be able to find a way to survive what killed them.

The universe is on a cycle. And that cycles brings out evil civilizations that lie in wait with but one purpose...to take down any who rise far enough to threaten the perpetual war and carnage that the universe seems to prefer. Peace and stability are forbidden, and any civilization that rises far enough to disrupt the Natural Order and attract the universe's attention is targeted with a gauntlet of invasions from distant galaxies.

Survive one and you face another...and another...and another...until eventually one takes you out. Then the invaders cleanse your galaxy of all traces of your civilization and leave, returning to their distant lairs as the Natural Order returns and people start killing each other over scraps of food, just trying to survive out the day.

Now the Paragon warlords will face the same gauntlet as the others, with the fate of the Milky Way tied to how long they can protect it before the inevitable dark ages return.

Unless they can find a way to defy the universe itself...

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Earth is not what you think it is. We are not the masters of this planet, rather the discarded slaves of a galactic empire that abandoned this border colony during a civil war. A few elite Zen'zat were left behind accidentally, marooned to die here and under strict orders to never reproduce and pass on their genetic superpowers...but when their masters unknowingly exiled them on this war-torn planet they chose to disobey, and the Human race is the result of that disobedience.

Zen'zat were never meant to reproduce, and because of that the genetic superpowers gradually got watered down and went dormant after enough generations, meaning Humanity has a genetic legacy buried inside waiting to be discovered...but that same legacy puts a death mark on us should the V'kit'no'sat Empire ever return to claim its lost border colonies. For if they find us here, alive without their permission, they will exterminate us all.

Fortunately for us, an archaeological expedition in Antarctica stumbles onto a pyramid buried under the ice, and inside it the Pegasus Corporation finds the truth about our past along with a battle station of mind boggling power testifying to how advanced the V'kit'no'sat truly are...along with the fact that we've seen them before. Their skeletons at least. For Humanity has hilariously misinterpreted the discovery of Dinosaur bones as belonging to extinct animals rather than the war corpses of the V'kit'no'sat conglomerate of races to whom the Zen'zat serve as slaves across the inner half of this galaxy.

The Pegasus CEO knows Earths' nations will squabble and war over the findings, so he keeps them hidden while starting a new corporation whose purpose is to facilitate the colonization of space using new breakthroughs in technology that are actually the merest tidbits of the pyramid tech being reverse-engineered. This new corporation becomes vastly rich, but faced with an untenable dilemma. The V'kit'no'sat could return at any time and destroy us all, and even if they do not, we are so far behind a galactic empire with more than a million planets worth of Dinosaurs and their slaves, how could we ever hope to grow strong enough to survive that kind of power?

Baby steps. Right now Earth can't even evacuate if we're found, for we don't have interstellar travel, let alone a moon base as Humanity stupidly sits on Earth playing politics. So the Pegasus CEO gives his new corporation a secret mandate: Advance Earth's capabilities as fast and as far as possible, while slowly building up a military in secret to deal with the other alien threats in our neighborhood that are just as deadly to such a weak world as Earth. Give Humanity the means to defend itself against them while always keeping an eye on the distant threat. The impossible threat that we must somehow find a way to survive where countless other races have failed and been wiped from the face of the galaxy for far less offenses than illegal reproduction.

The war between Humans and Dinosaurs is coming one day, and Earth's only hope is a small, but fast growing multi-national corporation known as Star Force.