Postwar reconstruction + economic recovery, commence!!!
After human forces took complete control of Sedal IV, they immediately began building concentration camps for aliens, imprisoning those who had been lucky enough to survive the Prototype Warform's attacks.
Once the aliens were secured, the Transport Fleet brought in large numbers of human construction crews and basic resources. They laid new foundations on the cleared sites of the former cities, then built brand-new Bioelectric Power Plants and Food Manufacturing Plants.
Even though the Empire's engineering technology had inherited only a tiny fraction of the legacy of the Cybrex precursor civilization, it was already far ahead of contemporary civilizations.
Enormous factories that blotted out the sky sprang up rapidly. That very day, over a hundred million aliens were herded over and thrown, one after another, into the gigantic pits inside the factories.
Each Deep Sinkhole could hold a million aliens. There were a hundred such Deep Sinkholes, enough to accommodate a full hundred million aliens.
Army soldiers shouted vicious curses, lashing back and forth with barbed, brass-tipped belts as they drove the cowering aliens into the Deep Sinkholes.
One after another, one on top of another, the aliens at the bottom were soon crushed to death beneath the endless stream of bodies descending from above. And so the pits, with their capacity of a hundred million, were filled.
These pits were not meant for burying aliens alive, but were workshops for compressing organic matter. A full hundred heavy iron blocks hung above them. As the machinery started up, the blocks slowly descended, fitting flush against the edges of the pits as they began pressing down.
There were no screams. Even the groans were muffled beneath the crushing weight of the presses until they ceased. The million aliens in each pit had been compressed into