2477: Military confusion continued to grow worse, as following the loss of Centauri's orbit to a Meklar fleet when no one remembered to send any ships there the year before, the repulsor ship sent to take back the planet's orbit wasn't accompanied by a single fighter, allowing the Meklon invasion force to take the world. Chaos reigned, and the Sakkra Imperium threatened to splinter, but this was also the year in which Admiral Vipersian left his personal Caiman in favor of the '74 vintage Salt Croc 5 megabolt dreadnought that had finally arrived at the war front that very year. It would never fire a single bolt, as every alien fleet it encountered fled immediately, but its communications systems finally allowed the admiral to take command of the entire southeast front. His commands were succinct as always, but no one dared gainsay him, and by year's end, the entire Sakkra military was under his control. The galaxy's only radiated worlds were colonized, and the - now seven! - unneeded Finality colony ships scrapped for parts. The official roll for the fleet Vipersian then commanded is the pride of the Meklon Historical Archive:
A map from the same time period should be sufficient indication of the fleet's invincibility once it came under Vipersian's efficient and coordinated command:
The end had come for the last of the other races in the galaxy.
2478: Centauri and Mobas were the only remaining Meklar worlds.
And then there were none.
A single haiku composed by Colonialus Poetate upon hearing the thrilling news of Vipersian's success crystalized Poetate's whole career, revealing the great undercurrent of all Sakkra thought and emotion for the next millenium:
Every star is ours,The exception of course was the victorious admiral of the fleet, who returned to Sssla in triumph, where the squabbling of would-be heirs ended in the only way it could have: By the coronation of Emperor Vipersian the Great, first of his name and of his line.
No worlds left to conquer.
Oh, what have we wrought?!
His stirring coronation speech is here recorded in its entirety, just as it appears in the Galactic Archive on Sssla:
Imperial objectives achieved.Indeed! What eloquence! What ... um, what economy of language! What ... what ... what is it I'm trying to say here again?
Ah, yes. That's it exactly.
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