Stellaris

Empress Xira of the Sutharian Xylos stood on the obsidian balcony of her Star Palace, her compound eyes scanning a nebula that bled violet and gold. Her hive mind, a chorus of ten billion synchronized thoughts, had just detected an anomaly: a single, dissonant note.

She agreed. She had no soul to lose. She was a million souls. Stellaris

The Korrin, diminished but defiant, joined as a second wave. Admiral Thrakk, his logic circuits scrambled by the Unbidden’s anti-mind attacks, had reverted to primal combat mode. He rammed his flagship into an Unbidden Dimensional Anchor, buying Xira seven minutes. Empress Xira of the Sutharian Xylos stood on