That's exactly why you aim at the guys with rank insignia first. The military is a meritocracy, so you're shooting what passes for their cream of their fighting population.

That's the whole idea, actually, is to cull them down to their worst specimens, and then you can take over and destroy what's left. Except humans are stupid enough to want survivors as workers, instead of breeding and moving more of their own kind. Like they do when they're at war with other species.

That's exactly why you aim at the guys with rank insignia first. The military is a meritocracy, so you're shooting what passes for their cream of their fighting population.

That's the whole idea, actually, is to cull them down to their worst specimens, and then you can take over and destroy what's left. Except humans are stupid enough to want survivors as workers, instead of breeding and moving more of their own kind.