Thread:Cyrannian/@comment-1633483-20151003023931/@comment-4560646-20151008031355

Hi Cyrannian,

Lately I've been thinking about creating another civilization that could serve as an Anti-Hero(i.e. good, but not always nice/soft, using darker colours as their theme, etc), and was a hivemind whose main species consisted of insects based on ants(appearance and underground residence), bees(flight and hive construction), and spiders(wall-crawling and web production), which would be probably at least the size of an Asian Giant Hornet, if not a bit bigger.

Why is this relevant, you ask? Well, I was snooping around the Cyranai Galaxy, and I found the concept of a small, mysterious and unexplored satellite galaxy interesting, especially since it is so close to Cyrannus, and I also liked the Bisistar Dominion.

Back to the topic, the Cyranai article states that "[...]two other major factions also inhabit the land, both of which have resisted the Bisistaran attempts at manipulation and external control. One of these powers is the Cyranai Neraida, but the other is yet to be revealed to the universe at large". Have you already thought out what exactly is this other power and planned when it will come out, or it's a vacant spot? If it's the latter, would you be fine with that idea of mine being this particular civilization?

I imagine they(I'll refer to them as "the Hivemind" from now on) could fit in quite nicely in the story. The Hivemind's societal structure is, like I said, a hivemind, and each member of it is able to make a 'mind connection' with another member due to their biology, which makes it impossible for a Bisistar to infiltrate within the hive even with shapeshifting, as they would not be able to recieve the 'mind connections' and would be discovered.

Of course, this gets into the debate where the Bisistar would simply try to attack the Hivemind the old-fashioned way. While the Hivemind is in no shape or form as developed as the Bisistar, I imagine they would be pretty advanced on their own(Tier 3 to 2, as they are quite an old race), which serves as a helping hand. Not only that, the Hivemind reproduces incredibly fast, and has a tendency to turn the underground of the planets they inhabit into literal hives, breeming with activity. On the other hand, their small size means even with their technology they are not exactly able to 'defeat' the Bisistar, only to defend themselves, essentially locking the two parties into a stalemate - though the Hivemind, being weaker, slowly loses more territories and struggles to get them back.

Since the Bisistar is unable to both infiltrate and destroy the Hivemind, they would instead isolate the Hivemind from other civilizations in Cyranai and hide the existence of Cyrannus, making the Hivemind believe they and the Bisistar are the only existing civilizations, and that the Bisistar is much, much larger than the Hivemind(which is technically true, but they would exxagerate the difference). Their plan would, however, probably be thrown into the grinder as the Neraida Gigamatrix make themselves known to the Hivemind, either by attacking them directly, or appearing to attack the Bisistar in the same world and the same moment the Hivemind are attacking. In my opinion the latter would work better, but it'd be your call.

This likely sounds overpowered though, and I won't blame you if you think it does, but if you'd like to know more about this idea, we could probably talk about it in the IRC. And yes, the Hivemind would have a Queen as a leader.