i was going to do something like that in my human chronicles tc series, but i kinda lost interest in doing the series. my plan, to make it all come together nicely, was that the pirates and the kl'naar (some aliens encountered in the first tc) are chased off by the us government and ttd (a company which turns into a government, and is later chased off by the us as it becomes more totalitarian), and then, a few plugs later, come back as a hybrid culture which is the aliens from the great war (i think i had that scheduled for the third or fourth plug). maybe i'll get back to work on the series eventually, but i just didn't have the patience for the details of the storywriting (all the missions and the sort)
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you want to know if i'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages, after being a litterbug?