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Defeat had not been an option. The conflict wasn't heading well. The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an adversary whose like no civilized competition had ever before confronted. Like some carnivorous cancers, the "Bugs" possessed overrun entire world after planet...plus they regarded any competing sentient species as only 1 more necessary protein source. They couldn't be reasoned with, or even spoken to, because no person had minimal notion of how to talk to a telepathic species with no recognizable words...and whose response to any communication attempt was a missile salvo. No one knew what size their civilization - if it could be called a civilization - actually was or how it was planned, but the huge fleets they threw against their opponents suggested that it was extensive. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, united in desperate self-defense, have been driven to the wall. Billions of their civilians have been slaughtered. Their most effective offensive operation has ended in shattering beat and the deaths of the most experienced and revered military commanders. The edge in technology with that they began the conflict is eroding out from under them, and whatever they do, the Bugs just keep coming. However the warriors of the Grand Alliance know what stands behind them, and they will surrender forget about civilians to the oncoming juggernaut. They will die first...and they will also reactivate General Directive 18, however horrible it may be. Because when the only real possible result is victory or racial extermination, only 1 option is appropriate. The Shiva Option.
