The Divine Maw

The phase whale race had begun to move in earnest.

Previously, the phase whales had been content to remain behind the scenes. As the original gods of the Red Ocean, they commanded enough respect and worship from the other races that their absence from the battlefield did not generate any complaints.

It helped that the phase whales of the Red Cabal successfully united the rivaling major races and bound them together in order to accomplish a common cause.

So long as the invading humans remained a serious threat to the natives of the new frontier, the Red Cabal would continue to retain its legitimacy.

This effectively put the phase whales in charge of all of the aliens in the Red Ocean!

Of course, the real situation was probably a lot more nuanced than that. Not every alien race worshiped the phase whales as literal gods, and there were probably a lot of phase lords that secretly desired to tear down the presumptive overlords.