It's a fairly long story, and an even longer process. You have to understand, the Condesce didn't just show up with her battleships in the sky and take over humanity. She started her invasion with subterfuge, posing as the leader of a baked goods company. She used that company as her way in and leveraged its resources to start warping human culture. Over the span of decades, she undermined humanity from within by using its own institutions to control public opinion and even brainwash the populace. It led to the election of her human collaborators to key positions of power, where they engaged in various efforts to dismantle the protections we'd built into our laws. When she showed her warships, it was only to frighten the human population into the authoritarian-aligned instincts that are activated in the presence of a threat.
It was a false show, of course, but no one knew that. The human population was approximately seven billion people when her human agents came to power. Their reign of terror, later called the Hilarocaust, ultimately killed five billion of us. By the time she finally stepped in to take power, we lacked the ability to resist.
Initially, the Condesce hoped to kill off the humans and replace them with clones of her own species, but her lusus, a creature bonded to her due to the conventions of the troll race, would always kill them. As a result, she turned to humans to attempt to make us more like trolls. This is where the genetic experimentation came in. She also banned human families and normal human reproduction and forced humans to contribute genetic material in the same manner that trolls do, donating them to imperial drones to be recombined into offspring that would be raised completely disconnected from any family but the droids she constructed to raise them. She ultimately decided she preferred Carapacians, who are a third species with a tendency towards unquestioning loyalty, over humans, and completely neglected humanity. With the planet flooded, the remnants of humanity were unable to adapt. By the year 2422, 411 years after the Condesce revealed herself to humanity and approximately five hundred years after her arrival on Earth, there were no humans left.
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It was a false show, of course, but no one knew that. The human population was approximately seven billion people when her human agents came to power. Their reign of terror, later called the Hilarocaust, ultimately killed five billion of us. By the time she finally stepped in to take power, we lacked the ability to resist.
Initially, the Condesce hoped to kill off the humans and replace them with clones of her own species, but her lusus, a creature bonded to her due to the conventions of the troll race, would always kill them. As a result, she turned to humans to attempt to make us more like trolls. This is where the genetic experimentation came in. She also banned human families and normal human reproduction and forced humans to contribute genetic material in the same manner that trolls do, donating them to imperial drones to be recombined into offspring that would be raised completely disconnected from any family but the droids she constructed to raise them. She ultimately decided she preferred Carapacians, who are a third species with a tendency towards unquestioning loyalty, over humans, and completely neglected humanity. With the planet flooded, the remnants of humanity were unable to adapt. By the year 2422, 411 years after the Condesce revealed herself to humanity and approximately five hundred years after her arrival on Earth, there were no humans left.