Empress Xira felt the psychic backlash across ten light-years. She severed the connection to Vor, sacrificing his individuality to save the hive. But the damage was done. The Unbidden had a lock on the Sutharian psyche.
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. 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. Empress Xira felt the psychic backlash across ten
She looked at the silent Veil and whispered to no one: “We dug too deep. But we climbed back out.” The Unbidden had a lock on the Sutharian psyche