Stellaris -

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

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

The final battle occurred above the Qu’tari homeworld, now a churning volcano of dimensional energy. The Unbidden had grown to a fleet of a thousand ships, their forms like shards of broken reality. The last Unbidden ship flickered once, then vanished

In the aftermath, the galactic core was quiet. The Korrin Compact was shattered—Thrakk’s final transmission was a single binary string: 01101001 00100000 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 (“I miss you”). A lover’s code for a machine who had forgotten love. We purged it once

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.