Stellaris

Desperate, she sent a priority distress call across the galactic community—not for charity, but for survival.

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. Stellaris

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. Desperate, she sent a priority distress call across

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