 While it is not exactly clear how the tide was turned, it is known that all races opposing the new empire were eventually beaten.Two of which, the cyborg Meklar and the ursine Bulrathi formed a subsequent pact with the humans — the Trinary Alliance, creating a nearly unbeatable force (humans excel at ship-to-ship combat, Meklar are master engineers, and Bulrathi are superb ground combatants).Close to the end of the war, a man named Curtis van Curtis acquires an alien device he calls "aTan" (from "athanatos", "immortal" [Greek