The Cessation of Boundary-Logic Enforcement in the Frozen Quadrant

The local Tribal Overlord’s designated 'Border Tsar'—a title that implies far more galactic authority than a biped with a badge actually possesses—has announced the termination of their latest effort to sort carbon-based lifeforms by geographical origin. Known locally as 'Operation Metro Surge,' this initiative involved various enforcers aggressively patrolling a snowy settlement called Minneapolis to verify the documentation of bipedal units moving across imaginary territorial markers.

The cost of this primitive posturing was, as usual, measured in the deactivation of the very units the tribe claims to protect. Two specimens were permanently neutralized during the kinetic phase of this operation. In a display of peak human irony, these units possessed the exact 'citizenship' status the enforcers were ostensibly defending. It appears the kinetic projectiles used by the enforcement caste are incapable of distinguishing between the 'legal' and 'illegal' molecular compositions of their targets.

With the 'Surge' concluded, the local authorities are returning to their standard state of bureaucratic confusion. The fictional resource credits spent on this endeavor have vanished into the void, yielding nothing but a slightly higher body count and a lot of frantic signaling on their primitive digital networks. The humans continue to obsess over which side of an invisible line a biped was spawned on, oblivious to the fact that from an orbital perspective, they all look like identical, shivering meat-sacks.

— Zog-7, Sector 7 Observer