Chapter 30 - Who were the Husnock? (Patreon)

Opening up one file, I saw an untranslated word/name I immediately recognized, one that made my mouth dry and my eyes open wide. The word, I soon realized, was the name of the race that this database had once belonged to, before they’d had the misfortune of encountering the Collectors.

It read, ‘Husnock.’

That was a raced mentioned in only episode from one of my favorite TNG episodes, featuring a destroyed human colony and only two survivors. Picard eventually learned the truth, that a violent race, known as the Husnock, had come and destroyed the colony and in the process had unknowingly killed the much-loved human wife of a Douwd, an immortal energy being with vast cosmic-level powers.

Big fucking mistake. Anger God-like beings at your peril.

Holding her broken body, and in a moment of self-proclaimed insanity, that ultra-powerful uber being had not only wiped out the invaders, but the entire Husnock race, everywhere, throughout the galaxy. Fifty billion of that race died instantly, with just a thought. As this was one of my favorite episodes, I remembered the exact words this being had used to described the Husnock, saying that they were "beings of hideous intelligence, knowing only aggression and destruction." For a God-like being to describe a race that way, you’d better believe that they were intelligent and advanced.