

One animation performed by the second of those three examples looks like the host is screaming under the fungus.And if they aren't, it's mutual symbiosis, not parasitism. Although there's no indication that the host species are sentient.Or how about having your body ◊ infested with mind-controlling fungus? ◊.Would you like a worm-like thing stuck on your head right into your brain? ◊

As the main page points out, some of the possible Alien races are Puppeteer Parasites.Because you just performed genetic brain surgery on all of them to manipulate them to feel social and happy. Gene modifying your population to become communal and charismatic.If they already didn't like you, they will be seriously considering a war declaration to put your hollow metal echoes out of their misery. The original species is actually completely dead and extinct, with robotic replicas left to act like them as a twisted mockery of their original selves. From their perspective, it means that everyone has merely copied themselves without passing their souls or actual consciousness to the robots. When you synthetically ascend, you will receive a message from a spiritualist fallen empire stating on how you've committed mass suicide and became soulless machines."And that's how I sold an empire's own people back to them as food."
