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Grass Eaters 3 | 09 | Dolus Specialis
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Authorized Receiver
Director Efrem Adler, Republic Office of Genocide Prevention
Report Preparation Officer
//Redacted// “Hersh” //Redacted//
Subject
Summary of Senate Mandated Report on the Situation in the Former Granti Alliance
Message
Director Adler,
Under the S.83920 Republic Defense Authorization Act 2123, the Terran Reconnaissance Office (TRO) is required to prepare a report regarding allegations of xenocide perpetrated by the alien civilizational entity known as the Znosian Dominion on multiple alien species outside the Republic. Our legal intelligence has compiled a 122,308-page report comprehensively documenting evidence of these acts as best we have observed and transmitted it to your office.
This document is the generated abridged summary of the evidence collection relating to Dominion crimes on the Granti home planet of Grantor.
Definition
The legal crime of genocide as defined in the Treaty of Atlas and Republic Constitution has two composing elements: the five acts, and the dolus specialis.
One, the five acts that can constitute genocide are: large-scale murder, serious bodily harm, deliberately destructive conditions, birth prevention, and forcible transfer of children. Any one of these acts may be sufficient for a finding of genocide.
Two, the dolus specialis — special intent — for a finding of genocide requires the perpetration of these acts with a deliberate and specific intent to destroy a group or subgroup of people.
The plethora of evidence detailed in this report demonstrates both. Disturbingly, unlike acts of historic genocide of human origin where cover ups are sometimes attempted as a stage of the crime, there has been no observed attempt by responsible parties in the Znosian Dominion to deny their intent or cover up the aftermath of their atrocities. In fact, Dominion officers and administrators carrying out the constituting acts freely talk about their roles in these offenses and their effects on the victim parties on the open radio. Much of the documentation and statistics gathered in this report were collected by Znosians.
As the focus of this section is on the Granti homeworld of Grantor-3 (Grantor), we will describe the explanations given here in that context.
The Dominion subdivides the task of xenocide by planet. Each planet is assigned a State Security operative and a high-level Dominion Navy officer jointly responsible for the task. The ranks of the operatives and officers depend on the importance and population of the planet in question. In the case of an important homeworld like Grantor, the rank of the responsible Navy officer is usually nine whiskers or higher.
Stages of Xenocide
Xenocide of an entire interstellar civilization is a difficult logistical problem due to the amounts of resources, the population numbers involved, and the time it requires. It is a generational project of extermination, not a simple project that can be completed in a few months or years. As per their own historic records, the first xenocide carried out by the Znosian Dominion took over half a century, far beyond the expected lifetime of any single Znosian. In our own history, mass murdering tyrants ran into severe logistics problems with millions to tens of millions of people; a planet of billions is a far more difficult task by several orders of magnitude.
Unfortunately for the Granti people, the Znosians have developed a highly regimented, closely regulated process to expedite the killing. They call this process pacification, and the Grantor project is known as the Grantor Pacification Project: the purge of over six billion Granti civilians left behind alive as the planet fell to Znosian paws in 2119. Millions of Dominion Navy, Marine, and State Security personnel have since been involved in its execution. We have done our best to collect evidence on as many of them as possible.
According to Dominion official documents, the xenocidal Grantor Pacification Project is made up of five major stages: invasion, suppression, concentration, liquidation, and reconstruction.
The first stage is invasion. This stage is self-explanatory. Once its orbits were taken by space superiority ships, the Dominion Navy landed millions of Marines on the planet. The regular terrestrial armies of Grantor were taken apart and destroyed with superior firepower and orbital support. The capital city of Grantor City and most urban areas on the planet were quickly taken, and the Dominion established hundreds of forward operating bases around the urban areas of Grantor.
In retrospect, members of the original Grantor resistance did inflict a high number of casualties on the occupying troops, higher than anticipated by State Security administrators. This was likely due to the extraordinary physical innate strength of the Granti people. However, this was more than compensated for by the aggressive hatchling breeding programs put in place on Grantor as soon as occupation began.
With regard to the civilian population, Granti civilians are told that if they just do what they were told, they’ll be allowed to live. It is a thin lie, but many of them pretend to believe it anyway. Interviews revealed that many civilians pretend they’d resist when the day came for them. Some said that the Granti Navy or even the Malgeir were going to come back and rescue them. Over time, some of them become fully convinced this is inevitable in order to avoid insanity. These coping mechanisms are deliberately developed by the Znosians as an active measure to further decrease resistance.
With the exception of a few collaborators, the Znosian occupying authorities have made no organized attempts to feed the general population. Granti survivors smuggle food in from outside the cities. This is not so much allowed as the Dominion simply doesn’t have the resources and personnel to monitor or stop it all without increasing resistance. There are some extra food stores, especially in areas where many had died or evacuated. Some survivors cultivate indigenous bugs or even turn to eating plant-based foods brought down to the planet by the occupying troops. Regardless, food shortages are common. Cannibalism is widespread, mostly of corpses of the weakest members of Granti society that have died of starvation.
The Znosian administration has kept detailed records of these measures in the last five years; our latest surveillance counted many hundreds of millions of Granti dead, possibly up to a billion, in comparison to pre-occupation census numbers.
The third stage is concentration. This is the stage that most of Grantor is currently in, with a few areas beginning to transition into stage four.
The Znosians know it will take a long time to starve the general population of Grantor out because it is logistically impossible to stop all food from growing. Cutting most meat out of the diet creates health problems for the Granti survivors because there are amino acids they need from protein; some have gone blind and developed health issues, but allowing that process to play out takes too long, even for the patient administrators responsible for the project. In Grantor City, as in many other metropolitan areas on Grantor, they’ve constructed camps for herding massive numbers of Granti victims.
The official reason for these camps — what they tell the prisoners — is they’re putting them to work. Munitions plants making shells and missiles for the war. Hatcheries for growing new Znosians. Additionally, they’ve constructed new factories at each of these camps. They don’t refer to them as such in front of the Granti, but they’re clearly labeled in their own internal documents as “death factories”. These tasks are in preparation for stage four.
The fourth stage is liquidation.
Here, the Znosians face additional difficulties, not in getting people to go into these death factories but in dealing with their output product. Even in their malnourished state, Granti people are physically larger than the usual predator victims of the Dominion. We have reports that the Znosian authorities are incinerating so many Granti corpses that their dripping fat and fur are occasionally extinguishing the ovens or causing runaway fires in the machinery. The ashes from the dead are clogging up their chimneys. And so many transport vehicles have broken down from their additional weight that their State Security officers have had to requisition more from surrounding occupied systems.
The full schematics for these facilities are included in the full report, including thousands of exhibits of photographic evidence of their existence and detailed operation.
The planetary quota target for Grantor is half a million liquidations a day, with no breaks or holidays. To encourage destructive policies, deaths caused outside of the extermination camps are counted in this quota for local administrators. The current numbers on Grantor are a fraction of that target as the Znosians are still ramping up this stage, but once they get up to full speed, Grantor will be depopulated in just under twenty years.
The final stage will be reconstruction. The Znosians intend to reuse as much of the existing infrastructure as possible while still erasing all traces of the Granti from their own planet. There is a detailed plan for reconstruction included in the appendix of this report.
Timeline
As its civilization’s singular most populous planet, Grantor is expected to take the longest for the Znosians to fully depopulate.
Our //Redacted// intelligence has developed a statistical model to estimate the full completion timeline for this project absent external intervention. Its estimation averages around 25 years after planetary conquest. This mostly matches the Znosian official schedule of around 27 years; they appear to not have fully accounted for some additional nutritional requirements of Granti people.
The physically weakest members of Grantor are mostly deceased by now. From our observation, the Granti specimens with the white fur require the most protein and have been hit by the starvation measures the most. Some of the brown and black furred Granti have entered an emergency type of hibernation mode due to lack of food, but it is unclear what their chances of survival are after this instinct is triggered, without medical intervention.
On top of the food deprivation, over 90% of the population will be liquidated in the next 15-18 years. The remainder of the surviving population will gradually become more difficult and slower for the Znosians to find and kill, but the last free Granti on Grantor will probably die sometime in 2144.
Methodology
Our evidence for this xenocide comes from numerous sources, including the Znosians themselves and our direct surveillance from orbit. The exact methods for collection and authenticity confirmation are detailed in the full report, with chain of custody of evidence fully accounted for.
Recommendations
It is the TRO’s recommendation that specific sections of the report (marked as such) are relevant to the public interest and should be released to the public without classification or redactions.
The reporting requirement was not additionally funded by the Senate; it necessitated the use of TRO resources outside of its original mission purpose in the programs for //Redacted//. The total amount dedicated to this report was //Redacted// for the fiscal year 2124. We further recommend that the TRO operating budget be increased by //Redacted// to better comply with this new reporting mandate.
We recommend the establishment of a new department in the TRO to coordinate xenocide prevention activities with the Republic Office of Genocide Prevention. Our budget office estimates this will cost an additional //Redacted// in the next five fiscal years.
This includes additional funding for the TRO’s covert direct-action program. By the best estimates of our independent accounting intelligence, every additional credit we spend on this program will prevent the killing of //Redacted// Granti survivors on Grantor every year until the planet can be liberated, up to //Redacted// credits and //Redacted// lives.
The partially funded Operation //Redacted// is expected to cost //Redacted//. This program may save up to //Redacted// Granti people. We recommend this operation be fully funded and expanded.
The accounting of these recommendations is included in the full report.
Finally, we recommend expediting the general process of mobilization in the Republic. This report details what the population of the Terran Republic has to look forward to if we find ourselves losing this war.
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Comments
Spooker
About 5 billion Granti to start, minus about one now. It's a lot of people and they're just getting started. This is the last lore dump chapter of the series. There is another lore-ish chapter near the mid-to-end of the book, but that one is a very different style.
Sam S
I personally don't like this style and would rather it be discovered via a character driven story. But I get why you wrote the chapter the way you did. I'm surprised that you did not include in the report how many sapients are left on Grantor with the genocide going on. I look forward to hearing about how the TRO/Navy is going to take back the planet.
DeWhit
Oh joy! Horrors within my comprehension!
NorkNork
Oh yeah. Hit me with some legal terms of art. That's the good stuff.
