65 Ancients Compendium : The Saksa (2/2)

The life on their planet was very hard, for many monsters and gigantic creatures were almost impervious to any weapons. Even some of the lesser energy weapons made by our people were barely scratching the heavy skin of those threats. Even if they could be compared to a dumb warrior, they were still capable of thinking an even creating some innovative sources of energy. Especially when it was to kill something else.

The first encounters were filled with suspicions and tensions, from both sides, but soon, the Saksa welcomed the Ancients with their arms open. As a more advanced civilization, we helped them a little with their technology, improving efficiency and reducing the waste. And it could have kept continuing if they weren't that greedy.

One day, without any notice, they hijacked one of our ships and kidnapped our own brothers and sisters. They demanded more, more of everything, food, weapons, energy. Those scaly animals only saw a glimpse of our power and thought that we were weak and only relying on our weapons. To answer that, we had to show what we truly were. The sudden shift of opinion let the Arm free of any restraints, and comparable to the treatment the captive god received, the end of the Saksa was not pretty.

After releasing our captives, the entire planet was burned to the ground, every living creature annihilated under the heavy bombardment we unleashed. But because of this, many Primarchs of the Heart lamented across the eons of the lost opportunity to ever befriend another race. For the Arm never let go of its control over foreign diplomacy. But even the smallest threat to any of our citizens was far too horrible to even think. Only a few survivors were kept in the same state as the god, a perpetual remember of what happened.

As for the other neighbors, they were repeatedly enslaved for experiments until no one was left alive. Past this initial massacre, it was decided to repress the bloodthirsty ways of the Arm to only do this after one attack was made against us. Even if it was nonsense and risking lives for nothing, it was still approved by both the Mind and the Heart. Thankfully, the amount of death that was provoked by civilized nations was relatively low, because most of the time, they captured the Ancients in a pitiful attempt at bargaining.

Because our glorious nation was spreading its wing, we had to have something to defend our planets, and not just some robots or androids. Besides the usual glitches that plagued some stations, turning it hostile against everything included its own creators, we needed something reliable, something intelligent. It was at that moment that someone had an idea that was so strange that it almost never saw the light of the sun.

To create a race to serve us. In our current era, something like that would be common knowledge, but at that time, it was a very strange though. What was the need to create a race? How could we be sure that it wouldn't betray us at all? And what would be its characteristics? To answer all of this, someone took the shape of a Saksa warrior and turned it bigger, much bigger. She also infused some of the godly energy in it and had some robotic parts.

The entire thing was so weirdly shaped that it was abandoned until a better solution was found. But she was restless about her idea, sure that it would work. Working with her friends and colleagues, she convinced them that it was viable. Past the initial surprise and misunderstanding, that small group began with a normal Saksa.

Because there wasn't a lot of them still alive, they needed to have some help, and one Primarch of the Arm covered everything for them. After a few failures, they managed to have a more or less good combination of both organic and metallic parts, living and artificial intelligence, mortal and godly energy. When they presented their product to that Primarch, he was ecstatic and immediately showed it to the rest of the Arm.

A perfect servant, not having any need, not having a true conscience, built only to defend a planet against foreigners and external threats. Only the recognition of targets and some commands were still not that perfect, but its ability at using mana and weapons was beyond anything they ever met. The perfect soldier was created, albeit only at a smaller scale. But that proof was enough to begin the creation of something big enough to truly defend an entire planet by itself.

Of the initial project, only the name and the vague shape was maintained. The name of Saksa was not related to a reptilian race anymore, but to the deadliest creation of the Universe. Even today, every planet terraformed or even built by us still have a Saksa defending it, whether it is against a natural disaster like an asteroid or some pesky pirates that think they can steal. So fear not citizens, for nothing can happen to us thanks to them. For we are the Ancients.

-Arm Primarch Geril Ofterneïn