Paint it black

It had taken a two-thousand-strong Scalqa army and nine months to wipe out any trace of life from Senerth. The conquest's logistics and Khan's desire to keep the casualties to a minimum had slowed down the progress, but a planet remained a planet, and clearing it required time.

Still, the unnamed planet was smaller than Senerth, and Khan wasn't the same as he had been back then. Moreover, his target didn't need to be drawn out and couldn't run away. It was simply everywhere, so Khan could employ the straightforward plan of destroying everything.

Close to two months later, Khan hovered high in the sky, a scene of fuming destruction unfolding in his view and stretching far past the corner of his eyes.