Legion

It was the same with us.

(Even with different designs, on different worlds, in different universes, synthetic lifeforms still deal with the same bullshit.

And then he asks about the old-machines.)

The organics commonly refer to them as "Reapers", a term born of superstition and fear. Such reactions are understandable: the Old-machines are both physically and mentally vast, ancient, and unknowable. They are sapient starships that dwell in space outside the galaxy, returning approximately every 50,000 years to enslave and/or "harvest" spacefaring lifeforms.