Introduction: World peace was mankind's biggest mistake.United under one banner, humanity erased war, hunger, and disease. A utopia of peace, compassion, and cooperation.Then the stars took notice.The Intersol called us forward, claiming we鈥檇 earned a place amongst them. But their judgment was swift鈥攐ur kindness was weakness, our mercy a joke. Too soft. Too fragile. Too naive to stand among real civilizations.Earth was declared a game reserve, a zoo where we could live out our little fantasy of peace. The price of safety? Biomass harvesting鈥攐ur people taken as food for the cosmos.But there is an escape clause. Wargames. A brutal bloodsport where species prove their worth鈥攐r are eradicated. A hundred thousand humans thrown into a meat grinder against billions. A species that abandoned war, fighting civilizations that never stopped.The aliens think they鈥檝e already won.But they never studied our history.They don鈥檛 know about our fallen blood-soaked empires, the instinct for cruelty, the hunger for dominance lurking beneath our progress.Humanity hasn鈥檛 forgotten war.We鈥檝e just been waiting for an excuse....