PART TWO:
One Will Win, No Matter the Cost...

With the violation of their peace, the Bao Masai Empire rose to wage war against the Shidoshan Dynasty.  However, they soon realized that achieving victory was not as simple as declaring war...

The Bao Masai were unprepared for the level of opposition the Shidoshan were able to give, whom regarded the Bao Masai as a moderate threat, but well worth the price of this energy source.  They were able to take other worlds that housed the Bao Masai's seed cores, even when the worlds were being defended by their forces.  For the next 10 years, the Shidoshan would continue to make Bao Masai worlds part of their territory.

Then, the tide turned.  The generation of Bao Masai that developed during the war with the Shidoshan grew to truly understood what was needed to fight and win.  New weapons and technology were developed for these warriors, based in part on the techniques ans style of the Shidoshan.  In only 5 years, they would liberate the worlds annexed by the Shidoshan, and start winning their war.  True to their original decree, they would continue on until the Shidoshan were all a memory.

The Bao Masai's advancement would not last, however.  The Shidoshan, taking the Bao Masai as a truly serious threat now, began a new offensive.  With the research gained from studying the seed cores, they learned earlier that the Bao Masai and the seed cores were genetically identical, and even found seed cores on the corpses of Bao Masai.  With this knowledge, the Shidoshan were able to fashion weapons that proved fatal to the Bao Masai, as the Shidoshan were able to take life on a planetary scale...severly raising the stakes in this war...

Once the Bao Masai discovered the basis of this latest act of the Shidoshan, their already driven anger became intense ferocity, feeling that the Shidoshan were using their own kind to kill them.  Using their own weapons, the Bao Masai were able to develop a method that would remove the Shidoshan from any world they inhabited, but safe for other life forms.  With both sides in possession of terrible weapons, a virtual stalemate was reached.  Both sides would fight and kill, unable to come to any forseeable end, and unwilling to stop.

The Shidoshan, knew that eventually, the Bao Masai's weapon and very nature, would overtake them.  They came to the conclusion that, with the Bao Masai's weapon making planet unhospitable for Shidoshan physiology, they would need a third party in their corner to aid them.  Earlier in their space explorations, the Shidoshan quietly observed a species located in a system of planets in their vicinity.  It appeared to the Shidoshan that this species did not originate in this system, and that they were colonists.  What they also noticed, is that this species was at war with themselves...but above that, they had the minds for war, possessing the ferocity that could rival even the Bao Masai.  They did, however, appear dangerous to approach outright.  What they would do, is discover where this species truly originated, and find a way to obtain their aid in fighting the Bao Masai...through either subversion or subjugation.

Possibly risking a war on two sides, the Shidoshan would take the risk and do whatever they could enlist the species known as humans....