It may be cyclical... it seems strange that this would happen only now, with us, when the war for the Oracles has been over the same thing over and over again.

[Save the worlds - destroy them to create new ones. If this thing consumed...]

It's possible this may be yet another part of that. The more Oracles we gain, perhaps the stronger it becomes? Perhaps it's not the Oracle that grants the faction their wish, but this entity instead...