"Report," ordered the six-tentacled gelatinous blob as it floated around the main chamber of the judgement orb.

"It's horrible, the mission is lost your Eminence," replied his equally repulsive subordinate as he oozed in the chamber holding his posterior which showed prominent bite marks, before he stopped and gave the official Thoraxian Empire's salute.

His Eminence, the Fleet Commander of Thorax Prime jiggled his tentacles with dismay, "What? How can this be? We require the element for our star fighters. Otherwise the fleets of the Hive Queens will overrun us. Failure was not an option!"

"I understand and obey, your Eminence but although the element was plentiful without the power of the fleet behind us we had to resort to subterfuge to secure it. Unfortunately, we made a grave miscalculation in dealing with primitive natives of the planet."

"Explain," bellowed the Fleet Commander as he quivered like an old jello mold.

"Everything was going to plan. Our agents had discovered that the primitives participated in a daily ritual known as 'delivering the mail'. It was carried out by a clan of drone ike carriers. Our intelligence reports suggested that we could approach their personal caches of the element by employing deception and impersonating members of that guild.

"Yes. Yes, I recall reading the briefing," the Leader thundered.

"Our miscalculation came from not fully understanding that these so called 'mail men' were actually waging a full scale conflict with the true dominant species of the planet, a ferocious creatures known as 'The dog'. Our success at mimicking the mail men led to us being directly targeted for retribution from 'The Dogs, as members of their age old enemy

" Because of this none of our agents were able to successfully infiltrate any of the humans caches, which they call laundry room and liberate any of the 'dirty' underwear required for refining process." quivered the junior blob sullenly. "I am sorry."

"Then truly all is lost. The Hive Queens and their horde will scour our world and use our corpses to incubate their larva!" wailed the Fleet Commander in agony.