Faced with the fact that he would have to order the last few thousand survivors of a race to their death.

And think about it- the last survivor of a race... not an easy thing to deal with.

They were beyond reacting to anything, these survivors of a long-dead race.

It's as if you're hearing the last survivor of a vanquished race.

It is possibly a survivor of a Scandinavian race.

We are the last three survivors of a proud race known as Humanity.

They're the survivors of a race that destroyed its own universe.

Just as Ahriman is the last survivor of an alien race that we humans battled so long ago?

The last survivor of a dead race.

Thunderbunny is the last survivor of an alien race of humanoid animals.