"Go mitosis" The Overlord ordered, and the fleets blinked as they launched to separate locations. The idea wasn't to secure the most valuable planets, it was to secure as many planets as possible. This wasn't about tech gathering, this was about tech denial, which generally would work best if you could limit what the Exogens got. The odd device that had been constructed in front of the Invictus activated "Construction Complete" The Overlord said with a grin, as his crew danced their hands over their terminals.

Dead World

"You are some form of extra dimensional being then... One who was displaced in our advance"
"You killed me"
"Your would have been given the chance to serve the greater good"
"What? Slavery of some form? Experiments? All for the greater good?" The being said, and he paused, hesitant, and opened his mouth to speak before being cut off by the being again "You walk alone, dream of home... Your memories of eons ago... Even after all this time you are one and the same, the common purpose... You still share the same mantras... 'Flesh to dust..."
"Bones to glass, energy to energy, life to death and death to life. Above all, good to all, and all to good" He finished
"How far you have strayed from those days long ago... I spoke with them, I know... And now you come to send the last of my life to death then? Now that I am too weak to defend myself? Apl these years... Just another casualty of your march"

Report 

From: Codename Nurse
To: Codename Surgeon
Subject: Report 
Content: Found it.