Despoilers of the Golden Empire
Author: first_name: Randall
last_name: Garrett
Language: English
Year: 1959

A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world!  The story appears to be about an expedition through space to a planet inhabited by a civilized but technologically backward people, whom the expedition conquer. However, in the last line it is revealed to be anything but that.
[T]he story reads like a pulp magazine yarn mixing space travel and classic swashbuckling themes, to the point where the characters even fight with swords, bri