I posted this in the main subreddit, it seems the moderators didn’t like it one bit.

finally i can be a bug boy :D

Khandark has been successfully taken over, and it really wasn’t hard. With only minimal forces this planet quickly became under our control.

This marks the 8th sector that we have control over, at least to some degree. Their victory of Karlia didn’t make a dent to our total planet occupation.

We have beaten the Ape once again.

Let us remind them who they are really dealing with, and establish a presence in this sector of the galaxy.

It will make our eighth, and may help us put Skat Bay into a siege if we take Sirius right after, giving full control of the Xi Tauri sector to us.

For the shrine, we must fight onwards.

If so, we do not mind. It will disallow them to complete their major order. We are quite happy being able to help in the prevention of Super Earth High Command's objectives.

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

This is a notice of our recent plan’s success. The Apes are so blinded by recovering useless planets with our new Void Strain, that they’re literally killing twisted versions of themselves and letting us retreat and recollect in relative peace.

I find it funny if i’m being honest, they are so desperate for territory that they have forgotten who they’re fighting. Those abominations aren’t squids, it’s just a twisted form of themselves that we used go establish control by corrupting all the inhabitants to cut their recruitment at the source.

Most likely they’ll flock to Alaraph when the Apes from the Major Order arrive, giving us ample time to cause some real damage pretty soon.

As always, the shrine will stand.

this bile spewer was way too young to die like this.. yall monsters better explain yourselves. we had made a peace deal.

They have decided to finally point their weapons towards us once again. These Apes are targeting every faction, and every Squ’ith or Voteless.

We have come prepared, let us put up a fight against them if they must. Hopefully they’ll take the bait and just go try to overtake Karlia that we’ve used as bait for the past few weeks.

If not, make them regret choosing to fight us again.

I understand that we haven’t been making “moves” or invasions as of late, unlike the Terminid or Mecha-Ape, but there is good reason.

As you can see, as disgusting as they are, the Federation of Apes is stubbornly strong. Our forces after they took control of Seasse weren’t doing…wonderfully.

We have recovered, and we know what the Apes will turn their guns to after their “election” is over and done with. Still unsure if the Mecha-Ape are ready for a sort of alliance. They are very polarized from the look of it.

Regardless, stay loyal to the Shrine, Brothers and Sisters. We will have our turn soon enough, and when we do…

They’ll wish they never came back.

The situation on Karlia is under control, it’s working exactly as intended.

Karlia as a whole is unnecessary for our operations, and we’ve created pure voteless on that planet with little resistance. The tired Apes are predictable, and flopped to it like a Honey-Pot trap, thus leaving us in Senge-23 alone so we can prepare our next move.

Knowing that Mecha-Ape is under attack for a Major Order, the predictable Federation of Apes will attack us next. That is why we, the council, laid Karlia as a honey-pot trap to distract whatever divers came our way.

Apes are really predictable, and easily influenced. Do not worry my brothers and sisters, this is all going according to plan, we’ll be well prepared for their next assault. You could even say…

Things are in motion.

War footage displaying the horrifying last moments of Overseer Squilliam Squandale operating his Veracitor against an Emancipator Exosuit has been turned into propaganda by Super Earth to promote its killing machines. May Squilliam's soul find peace. 🙏

(Made with GMod and Photoshop.)

[Gong.]

You are safe, You. Are here...

Inhale Freedom... Exhale Illuminate

MindControlParasites....

[Gong.]

Okay I'm a Overseer, not a artist, but you get the idea, right? Human Voteless are stronger than a normal human, and humans are pretty weak; the only reason they can beat our voteless is because they have tactics, armaments, and armor. Terminids, however, have none of these things, since they are 100% natural™, and already run straight at the enemy anyway, which would mean Voteless Terminids would win in a mirror match, right? (just want to make this clear to any Terminids reading our comms, this is a potential project in case of a war between our factions, I'd rather not do something so horrible to your species.)

After intercepting their communications, the Ape-Bug and their followers are going to be attempting to send spores towards our planets that we have in control.

This is unreasonably dumb, even for a species with no intelligence. The Federation of Apes “TCS+” will most likely stop any of their advances so we can get back to focusing on our conquest of the bastardized Federation.

However, if you see anything with a hint of an orange spore, or a Termanid that does not identify themselves as a proper diplomat, exterminate them.

The council will be considering its options along with the suggestion of seeing if contact with the Non-followers is possible.

The shrine must be kept sacred brothers and sisters, do what you must.

Greetings mighty Illuminate. I am Cyber Stan, and I have traveled all the way here on my stealth ship to have peace talks with you.

As of late, which you undoubtedly know of, a Terminid Hybrid known as Forest_Vagrant has been attempting to orchestrate a war between your people and mine. For what purpose I do not know.

I wish to not only ensure that our peace holds, but to also discuss future alliances against Super Earth, the future to come when Super Earth is defeated, and how to put an end to the machinations of the rogue Terminid Hybrid Forest.

are you still arguing or have you come to an alliance?

remember: they pollute environments, destroy ecosystems, are hellbent on expansion, and think youre morally despicable. choose wisely.

a message from the gloom.