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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.

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

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. Her hive mind, a chorus of ten billion

Desperate, she sent a priority distress call across the galactic community—not for charity, but for survival. He rammed his flagship into an Unbidden Dimensional

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