The two civilizations were true mortal enemies. Over countless ages, they had fought several large-scale wars against the Void Insect Race, with the conflict spanning multiple major worlds.
The Wizard Civilization won every one of those wars, but always at an extremely heavy cost.
"The Void Insect Race Civilization is centered around individual Nests. It's a highly unified hive-mind consciousness, and all Insect units are merely its extended tools."
"The Insect Race has countless such Nests. Each one can launch a war and invade a world on its own."
"But all Nests, in turn, are subordinate to the Void Empress of the Insect Race."
On the Light Curtain, the images switched rapidly.
The first to appear were the basic units of the swarm. They came in various forms, and their numbers were endless.
They were busy transporting blocks of converted matter and energy, building complex nests and energy conduits across a twisted, malformed landscape.
