>Begin game as Grey-looking reptile people >Fanatic Materialist/Xenophiles >Begin spreading across my side of the galaxy >Eventually find primitive turtle people >Set up observation post and generally forget about them >Encounter bug people >Bug people are incredibly aggressive and have a lot of guns >Not as advanced as me but have 5 times as many ships as I do >They want my outer colonies >"Fuck you, get your own" >They don't like being told "fuck you, get your own" and proceed to overrun my colonies >Realize I'm heavily boned unless I get more help >Remember turtle people, lightbulb.jpg >Uplift entire race and make them my vassal >Tell them to "BEAT THOSE FUCKERS TO DEATH!" >"duh...ok boss" >Turtle men have terrible ship power, but are completely awesome in ground assaults >Use my ships to guard them as they lay waste to the bug people >Eventually take my colonies back, and then I bring the fight to the bug people >"Please stop this! W-w-we didn't mean it!" >"Nope, you started this fight, and I'm going to end it" >Use combined forces of me and my turtle people to completely wipe out the bugs >Every other race is disgusted with my actions, but I'm content >Use resources from bug people to create a mighty galactic empire >Turtle people given some worlds too >"Duh, boss turtle people want more worlds" >"Here, let me show you the amount of fucks I give, see? It's a zero" >Turtle people rebel >This time have giant armada and resources from bug people >Completely genocide the turtle people >MFW I realize I just re-enacted the Rachni Wars