<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Time was up.  Lord Ver'Slek looked up from the electronic pad he was reading from, and stood up.  He'd given the Homo Sapiens time, probably too much time, but he addressed them again, "Ve na mak to ne bek na hu.  re mab cre tan na besh."  The translation followed immediately, &lt;The time is up.  Do not resist, or you will die.&gt;<br/><br/>From each ship launched four ships, shaped a bit like a tadpole.  The ships were bulbous up front, with the engines on either side of the front head, with an extended tail holding the troops.  The front of the ship had cutting and airlock formation tools, and they moved into position to strike.  Right before the ships were due to hit the shield, they stopped, and then each of the battleships let loose with a volley of weapons.  Each weapon was aimed to avoid the hull of the station, incase one got through, but still strike the shield with full force.  The idea was to bring the shield down and then get the troops on board.<br/><br/>The volleys came from eight large energy cannons mounted in four turrets, with secondary weapons firing to increase the devestation to the human shields.  Lord Ver'Slek watched passively, knowing that the humans would be taken into slavery.  Each of them would be rounded up, stripped naked, processed, collared, chipped, and finally sorted.  Those too violent would be used for dissection, cut open to be studied for further knowledge of the new slave species.  It would also make sure that the more submissive slaves lived on to breed and produce more docile slaves.<br/><br/>Ver'Slek, like many Borslek, had been born on the resource poor homeworld.  The lack of land, and resources available, meant that while almost all Borslek wanted to live on the Homeworld, the Empire's survival meant mining the asteroids and moons of the home system and those of the colony systems.  While they were rich now, many Borslek in those early years had faced innumerable hardships trying to carve the Empire out of the stars.  Part of that success had been the two slave species captured so far, those of the Grekka and the Vercosh.  Both were semi-independent, slaves in name only, who paid taxes to the Borlesk in exchange for protection.  Only time would tell if the humans would get such treatment or if they'd be used as simple slave labor or possibly even butchered for meat.</span>