The Cybrex arrived last. They did not fight. They simply opened a psonic channel and broadcast the uploaded piece of Xira’s grief—a raw, infinite wave of maternal loss.
“You are afraid,” it hummed. “We remember fear. We purged it once. It did not work.” Stellaris
The last Unbidden ship flickered once, then vanished into silent, non-existent light. The Cybrex arrived last
The Unbidden paused. For the first time, they encountered a flavor of psionic energy that was not power or ambition, but agony . It was poison. Their extradimensional forms began to destabilize. “You are afraid,” it hummed
She looked at the silent Veil and whispered to no one: “We dug too deep. But we climbed back out.”
The first to arrive were the Korrin Iron Compact. They were Fanatic Materialists, machine-augmented humanoids who viewed the Xylos hive as “organic noise.” Their Admiral, a cybernetic brute named Thrakk, interfaced with Xira via a sterile data-link.