"We had created monsters we couldn't control. We drugged them, tortured them, eviscerated them, we brutalized their minds, but it did not work. Until they came. And it was not their force of will, not their Void devilry, not their alien darkness, it was something else. It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly broken thing and take away its pain."