Stellaris

As the Unbidden consumed the Korrin fleet (Thrakk’s logic failed against enemies who ate energy, not matter), Xira retreated to the galactic core. There, she found the one thing the Unbidden could not sense: a dormant Shroud Enclave, the remnants of the Cybrex—a precursor machine intelligence that had once purged all organic life, then fell silent in remorse.

And the sky, for once, did not answer.

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. Stellaris

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. As the Unbidden consumed the Korrin fleet (Thrakk’s