>>109640899>This is fucking crazy as fuck. It's well beyond obscene.To be fair, they have been producing ships for longer than humans have existed.
The Zentradi were made to be vat-grown clone soldiers by a galaxy-spanning civilization called the Protoculture. A civil war among the Protoculture (which was started by body-stealing energy vampires, but thats another story) got out of hand and the power structure commanding the Zentradi fell apart, so all the Zentradi knew going forward was that everyone was shooting at everyone and the last orders they were given were 'don't listen to the other side, only listen to me' and then the guy giving those orders died so they had no one to command them but everyone was STILL SHOOTING.
Most of the Protoculture gets wiped out, and the Zentradi war machine is still in high gear kicking the living shit out of itself and wiping out whole planets as collateral damage. The remaining protoculture dudes, seeing the writing on the wall, seed a bunch of planets with life in order to make it so those worlds will produce intelligent species one day in the hopes that civilization will bloom and return to the galaxy once the Zentradi have finished eradicating themselves.
Several million years pass, humanity evolves, and by the time we start doing space stuff the Zentradi are STILL KICKING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER ACROSS THE THE STARS. The automated factory stations that mass grow their clone troops and mass produce their ships have just continued to crank out new Zentradi to throw into the meat grinder against each other this whole time.
So now they have an absolutely stupid number of ships and troops, because they have had an absolutely stupidly long time to build up their forces. And some of those troops are damn old, to our knowledge Zentradi never actually die of old age, they just keep fighting until eventually they lose a fight.
