History NightmareFuel / OrionsArm

* The aptly-named Queen Of Pain. Take a furious, half-dead cat and uplift/enhance it over and over again until it's basically been warped into a madness-inducing EldritchAbomination that loves to torture.
** Specifically, it uses nanotech to subject its victims to hideous BodyHorror, enhancing their pain to levels far beyond what biology would normally allow them to feel. It plans to continue doing this ''forever''; when [[TimeAbyss stars start dying, it will modify itself and its victims to survive the cold, and when the heat death of the universe hits it will simply travel to another universe and continue]]. The [[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-story&story=dr_yes_jolonah story featuring it]] is a truly terrifying example of {{Gorn}}. Fortunately, its BlueAndOrangeMorality keeps it from harming anyone who isn't a horrendously evil person, but it apparently uses brainwashing to acquire "agents".

* Subsumption, where an entity incorporates another's body and mind into itself, has been compared, "inadequately" to rape, cannibalism, murder and bodyjacking. Why inadequately? '''Because subsumption is worse than all of these things.''' It is the hard sci-fi equivalent to YourSoulIsMine.
** Some subsumptionists have wiped out entire civilisations one person at a time.
* [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5062de7e3abce Species 5 could still be out there.]]

* One part of the article on xenosophont civilizations covers an alien signal from far outside the Terragen Sphere that promised prosperity to any civilization that followed its instructions to construct a specific device. A powerful transapient decided to test it out on a planet populated with robots of its own creation in case the promise was a ruse. It was, and upon completion the device wiped out everything else on the planet and tried to ascend to a higher toposophic level before the transapient destroyed it. [[FridgeHorror Signals identical to the original promise are coming from half of the galaxies in the observable universe]].
* The [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a59d19f81fed#:~:text=Mysterious%20alien%20artifact&text=Shown%20is%20an%20image%20of,mass%20and%20composition%20are%20undetermined Omicron Hygeras Object]]. Basically, it looks something like a 262-kilometer (163 mi.)-long tree branch. No one really knows what it is or what it's doing in our galaxy; it can't be approached, explored, destroyed or occupied because of its devastating effects on anything and everything (including space-time) in proximity to it. Thousands of beings have died trying, and it has wiped out two hyperturings (AIs) who tried to study it. A warning beacon left by an extinct civilization claims it came to this galaxy, apparently from another universe, some 400 million years ago (possibly causing several planetwide mass extinctions in the area where it appeared) and is somewhere around 288 ''trillion'' years old. Although it's not currently a danger to anyone because it never moves, [[FridgeHorror who knows what could happen tomorrow?]] And the OHO is only one of many unexplained and potentially super-destructive alien artifacts out there.

* One part of the article on xenosophont civilizations covers an alien signal from far outside the Terragen Sphere that promised prosperity to any civilization that followed its instructions to construct a specific device. A powerful transapient decided to test it out on a planet populated with robots of its own creation in case the promise was a ruse. It was, and upon completion the device wiped out everything else on the planet and tried to ascend to a higher toposophic lever before the transapient destroyed it. [[FridgeHorror Signals identical to the original promise are coming from half of the galaxies in the observable universe]].

** One part of the article on xenosophont civilizations covers an alien signal from far outside the Terragen Sphere that promised prosperity to any civilization that followed its instructions to construct a specific device. A powerful transapient decided to test it out on a planet populated with robots of its own creation in case the promise was a ruse. It was, and upon completion the device wiped out everything else on the planet and tried to ascend to a higher toposophic lever before the transapient destroyed it. [[FridgeHorror Signals identical to the original promise are coming from half of the galaxies in the observable universe]].

** Specifically, it uses nanotech to subject its victims to hideous BodyHorror, enhancing their pain to levels far beyond what biology would normally allow them to feel. It does this ''forever''; when [[TimeAbyss stars start dying, it will modify itself and its victims to survive the cold, and when the heat death of the universe hits it will simply travel to another universe and continue]]. The [[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-story&story=dr_yes_jolonah story featuring it]] is a truly terrifying example of {{Gorn}}. Fortunately, its BlueAndOrangeMorality keeps it from harming anyone who isn't a horrendously evil person, but it apparently uses brainwashing to acquire "agents".

*** Specifically, it uses nanotech to subject its victims to hideous BodyHorror, enhancing their pain to levels far beyond what biology would normally allow them to feel. It does this ''forever''; when [[TimeAbyss stars start dying, it will modify itself and its victims to survive the cold, and when the heat death of the universe hits it will simply travel to another universe and continue]]. The [[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-story&story=dr_yes_jolonah story featuring it]] is a truly terrifying example of {{Gorn}}. Fortunately, its BlueAndOrangeMorality keeps it from harming anyone who isn't a horrendously evil person, but it apparently uses brainwashing to acquire "agents".