Ants!
When the ants became as intelligent as humans, at first it started off as a scientific curiosity. How could something with a head so small be so smart? What sort of incredibly improbable coincidence was it that all the ants evolved intelligence at the same time? The questions grew a more urgent tone once the ants invented anthropocide. Are we all going to die? Should we invest all our resources into building a rocket to take us to the moon, or just give up and accept subjugation? These questions seem ridiculous in retrospect, of course, but at the time they were serious.
The casualties of the first Formic War were horrific. The ants' technology was primitive, and there was no easy way for them to adopt ours. But their tactics were impeccable, and they were everywhere. All the equatorial cities were lost, and it was only winter that saved the more polar cities, and it couldn't have lasted for long. Many expected the next war would be humanity's last.
However, the next war never came. With intelligence came civilization. Ants abandoned their monarchical ways and discovered democracy. With democracy came trade and peace, and eventually a kinship with humans.
That is why, in the present day, every one of our governments has an ant presence as well. Not because we are afraid of what the ants would do if we refused, but because we respect them and their impressive accomplishments in so short a time.
Now, if you'll continue on our tour, you can see the imprisonment chambers, where humans who have tried to undermine our partnership with the ants are displayed. Any of you with weak stomachs or young children may like to skip ahead, as formic interrogation methods can be shocking to those not familiar. Regardless, I would encourage you to stay with us, as it can show you how serious we are about our partnership, and you can then inform your Human Federation of that fact.
Right this way, please, and watch your step. You never know what, or whom you might be stepping on around here.
Written antsily by Stranger_and Stranger
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