Assimilation
AN: All disclaimers and such are at the start of the story. jupitarsdaughter asked, and my muse (shockingly) obliged. Sort of. 100 words exactly.
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The assimilation of species 1 is complete. The planet turned into a single seamless factory for our rebirth, and all working toward our most important objective.
Species 1 never encountered another sentient race before us. Yet we know at least one other must exist.
There is in our databanks .03 nanoseconds of a recording, barely more than an image: our queen (and we again have a unit of such designation), and another being, a humanoid not of species 1, whose mind contained all that was lost.
We will find this species. We will assimilate it. We will regain our perfection.