[BeeDee10]

Rearguard news, the Irha-Nrr view:

"Since the destruction of our entire military and of the shipyards and research worlds in Tesshana, the Dragons have withdrawn from our space. They are apparently satisfied that we no longer pose a threat, and indeed it will be a matter of many months before we have recovered sufficiently to defend our core systems and the Terran reserve planet located there.

In the meantime, as anticipated, the quadrant has gone mad as the tensions cultivated by the Dragons over the years all find catharsis. Every major empire has declared war upon the Dragons, who although quite capable of subduing any one opponent are apparently suffering significant casulaties due to the many fronts they are forced to divide their forces among. They have just finished annihilting a significant portion of the Scron's military forces, along with a number of Scron worlds, and are now apparently redeploying away from the Scron front much as they did from our territory after neutralizing our own forces. I believe that the attacks launched by the Space Vikings have been responsible for saving all of the rest of us from total extermination at the Dragons' hands, and I find it ironic that agression has been responsible for saving these species. At least in the short term.
It is strangely fascinating to witness the actual collapse of this cycle of civilization, fully validating the projection our models of long-term biological evolution produced. Now that the Dragons have rendered us completely helpless to intervene and prevent this cycle's collapse, it is almost exhilerating now watching it all end in destruction. I only hope that I will be able to recover samples of some of the other intelligent species out there in the midst of this chaos."