As the reached the ornate meeting room, Some of the guards stopped and covered the entrance as the doors shut. The rest took up positions around the room. As the Queen sat down, she removed her helmet and shook her hair out. She set her helmet on the table in front of them.
"You are right, in the end. It will benefit us knowing we are not alone. However, to properly explain, I must delve into our history and revel some things about my people. I have no doubt that the technology you possess, and even the numbers you possess, while not having to worry about such things as individual emotions in your soldiers, could more than likely make my Species extinct should you choose to. It is the best interest of the Xetnos, to answer your questions, even if it means revealing things that may prove to put us at even further of a disadvantage. In the interest of friendship, I think it would be wise for me to do such things. I am also, flying blind. Never before has my people met with those from other worlds. This is all new to me, and I have no experience with this.
So to answer your question, I'll first go back in time a bit. Over 500 years ago, my people had a major conflict. It was known as the Great War. Before that time, we had individual clans that had leaders, which would meet and decide on things for the people as the government. 1 of the leaders, took advantage of this meeting and killed the other leaders, taking advantage of the chaos to seize all the assets and technology. They began regulating the currency, food, weapons, and the military. The leader became a dictator and used fear to rule over us. Killing those that opposed him, and doing other unspeakable things to keep the rest of us in line. It lasted for many years. Till things got so bad, the people revolted against this government. The ensuing war, was the Great War. It lasted for over 50 years. Tens of millions of my people were killed. The citizens hated the government so much, anything coming from the government was immediately considered false. All the history on record, how my people came to be, technology, it was all burned and destroyed as just being propaganda. When the government finally fell, and a new leader, and form of leadership was created, it was decided that for such a thing to never occur again, the Xetnos should not be controlled by fear. The young were taught how to live without fear. Fear can be a crippling thing for some, and if the whole population did not give in to fear, then they could not be controlled by rogue leaders.
With that as the base knowledge, my people have lived for 500 years with a large ability to suppress and not make decisions or judgements based on fear. When I was standing there, and I saw your robots jump out of that gigantic drop ship. I saw them compared to my people, and I knew instantly that you could annihilate us if you so chose. I was afraid. For myself, and my people. I had to take a deep breath and calm myself. I am the leader, I have had the most in depth training of leading forces into battle, and leading my people forward. So if I felt such emotions, I could not imagine what a normal citizen would feel. I would be afraid they would make a poor decision, and possibly attack your robots. They could think I've created a force to enslave them, like the old government did. I think the best of my people, but as a leader, I would not be doing my job if I didn't take any possible irrationalities into account.
I want to introduce you to my people and integrate ourselves together, in the way that would provide the least amount of chaos and fear. For a society that lives without fear, I cannot imagine the terrible things that could happen, should a large portion of them suddenly be thrust into the depths of such an emotion.
To understand why I am taking such care to prevent any conflict you, Uca, and my people, is that we have been suffering from incredibly low birthrates. Our scientists have not been able to solve the issue for centuries. The Great war cut our population by over 75%. Since then, we have not even been able to recover a quarter of that. Any hostilities between us, even if peace would be eventually found, would be catastrophic for the Xetnos. Because of that, I am leaving nothing to chance and taking every precaution possible.
Does that help you to further understand?"
She smiled at Uca, not feeling the fear she first felt anymore. Her training and calm demeanor being one of the reasons she is loved by her people.
