Her voice echoing through the council's shared neural network, the Crel Dominion has launched their full arm out of toward Earth. Over 300 different species, from the methane breathing bathy to the energy-based ephemera, turned their attention toward the massive holographic display at the center of the room. The Crel claimed Earth as a resource world six cycles ago, before your species reached the required technological level. Their enormous dreadnought sliced through the void, passing Mars without slowing, targeting Earth's major cities. They're not even hiding, muttered Commander Catherine of the Sentinel Corps, a battle-hardened species that had barely survived three Crel invasions.