NECROCYBORG VOID HARVESTER

Most centuries, he sleeps. The ones he does not are remembered as extinction events. The Void Harvester is not an archivist. He is not a custodian. The instruments are not for preservation, and the crystals at his feet are not vaults. They are capacitors. The scythe is the discharge channel. He is a weapon, and the weapon's ammunition is the residual psychic mass of dying minds. He has no shortage of supply. The universe is vast and the universe is full of the dying - entire civilizations spend themselves into the void at a rate no living species can grasp, and he sits in their wake and feeds. But the harvest is slow, and the weapon's output is fast. The economy is unfavorable. To charge him to operational threshold requires the collected death-mass of a battlefield, or a city, or a small war. To discharge him at peak requires a single decision. Centuries of accumulation can be spent in an afternoon. At full charge, he is a peer of the worst things that walk between the stars. The d