The slaughter is ongoing. You are not ‘after the fact’.
Hmmm.
Or a first-hand account perhaps?
Except… no. In fact, as was observed many times at the beginning of our dealings with the Trigs, they invited us in. That’s where the original filaments came from: from them. We certainly didn’t develop technology that interfaced with our warp drives in ways we still don’t entirely understand in order to access space we didn’t know existed.
And when we got there? We were in skinner boxes, set up to test us. Again, as pointed out numerous times: there’s no other reason for each ‘chamber’ to have a ‘please take this once you beat the others’ box full of goodies. It’s not like the Trigs needed to get their hands on their own materials, or blueprints of their ships that just happened to be set up for our pods, or skillbooks encoded for our data storage formats.
We were being tested. In their ‘Proving Grounds’. And we enthusiastically participated, and made damned sure they knew just what we could do. And they pretty quickly realized they could convince you folks to become ‘subornhost’ or whatever, to work for them. Even as they found ways to invite more of us into what are explicitly arenas, set up to fight one another for their study, they compromised our data systems back here in k-space, manipulated the market, flooded the datastreams with their messages.
No, we didn’t start this.