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Arrival
06:32
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Earth smolders - No remnant remains
To unknown terminus the beacon’s signal travels
Hovering within the exosphere - Corvettes gleam
As weeks advance, convoys gather
Two envoys that hang inanimate begin to drift
Carriers descend in close formation
Before the assembling mass, beings emerge
Inhabitants from the local systems - Two species
Survivors of the first wave - The fourth destroyed
Centuries afloat, its mission now complete
The signal let loose
The bursts journeys
Years past the borders into the transcend
Lying in wait within the galactic halo
The Entity - Formless One
Distributed intelligence
All forms will become one
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Entity
04:29
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Conceived in untold aeons past
Consolidation of life to its necessary conclusion
Fragments of self
Spread forth to the void
Drifted within the local sector
Detecting the existence of local forms of life
Collided into the planet of what was once the fourth race
Ravaged and lifeless, a sacrifice for what remains
Particles of the fragment undetected
Left to drift
The beacon is lit
Now fulfilled of purpose
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Uplift
05:09
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Monoliths delivered - Technological ascension
Uplift - Joined together in opposition
Traveling through the vastness with calculated purpose
Centuries to pass towards defensive formulation
Spread throughout the systems
To support the rapid industrialization
Exponential expansion
A growing swarm
Generations fed through the machine
Seeing neither beginning nor the end
Far bound sentries detect the threat
Abruptly blink out of existence
A race now bred for the inevitable conflict spreads forth
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Mobilization
04:48
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Fortified positions set
Battle stations of alternated fleets
Defensive stations shifted
Concentric lines light years spaced
Obstructing the path to its core
Lying in wait in the final days
Unknowing the extent
Of the formless death that approaches
A stillness in the void
An outwardly lifeless structure surges forth
The edges begin to ripple and shift, splitting and reforming
Culmination of centuries - The approach of the controlling form
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Approach
03:29
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Outpost
03:51
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The forward lines broken, pushed back system by system
Patterns randomized to counter absorbed intelligence
Effective tactics negated
The living flesh regenerates through absorption of defeated flesh
Accumulating in the advance
The form divides and spreads
A lone ship thought lost docks at Station Alkaid
Lone signal burst before communications lost
Flawless replication of ship and crew
Knowledge assimilated
Burst forth permeating every crevice
An entire fleet lost
New directive
Separation is death
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Dominion
05:40
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Methodically moving world to world, system by system
Its ichor flows
Encapsulating entire worlds
Stripping all trace of organic matter
Forces in retreat - Floundering defenses
Fleets rapidly pushed back
Meticulous advance - Leaving no trace
Mere months till the home planets reached
Desperate research to find any weakness
A sign of hope in study of the fragments first arrival
Reverse engineer the field
All resources devoted to the cause
Pushing back for precious days
The grip tightens
Research completed - The massive construct assembled
A plan put into motion - Failure is extinction
All remaining forces coalesce - A convoy formed
Transporting into the void between stars
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Timechasm
04:24
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The staging ground set
Defensive perimeter protects machine
The entire armada activate broadcast beacons
Corvette bombing runs lure the fractured blight
Masses along the path reintegrate, recognizing the gathered force
The first splinters reach the forward line
Mass sacrifice to gain moments needed
The line must be held
Until the full mass is within reach
No possibility of retreat
In the final moments critical mass achieved
The reversed field activates expanding light years
Captured in the void - A prison of time
Billions lost - Trapped within
The ceaselessly advancing hunger to inevitably be released
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Nucleus is a Sci-fi themed death metal band based out of Chicago, IL.
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