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Thrakk deployed his “Planet-Cracker” class vessel, the Unforgiven , not at the Unbidden, but at the Xylos fringe world of Tu’shan—a nursery planet. He detonated its core, shattering the world and billions of unborn drones.

The last Unbidden ship flickered once, then vanished into silent, non-existent light. Stellaris

Xira fired the Null Lance . A beam of absolute nothing struck the rift. Space-time folded, groaned, and sealed. Xira fired the Null Lance

Empress Xira stood again on her obsidian balcony. Her hive mind had shrunk. A billion voices were gone. But the remaining voices were no longer just a chorus of instinct. They were individuals. Empress Xira stood again on her obsidian balcony

“You are afraid,” it hummed. “We remember fear. We purged it once. It did not work.”

Empress Xira felt the psychic death-scream of her young. For the first time, her hive mind experienced something alien to her nature: grief . And from that grief, a new directive: vengeance.