Thread:Chantal71/@comment-4960835-20151023104032/@comment-4894054-20151023195040

Since you're so eager for my feedback, I'll just have to answer you now.

First, I'll reveal the two new factions. As before, everything originated from the universe I'm mainly involved with. The first is, essentially, another Grox faction, but led by an unrelated artificial intelligence, Zoii, that was once tasked with the long-term monitoring of the local Grox populations, and thanks to an event which had a similar purpose to the Annhilation, this would last 50 million years, at which time the last such Grox fleet was destroyed, so Zoii self-destructed her hidden facility and downloaded herself onto a specifically-built Grox ship, and along with her crew of enhanced Dronox, left to try and force the destruction of that empire, which, by the way, was more like a more powerful version of the Grox. At some point later on, Zoii took control of another group of Grox and made an empire allied to the precursor to the second new faction. Both would go on to use the technology of the portal on Tzèoqàtl to create trans-universal drives, and both would settle colonies in an isolated part of Mirus. Eventually, that other nation backstabbed Zoii's nation for unknown and unimportant reasons, and while her territories in the other universe were taken, her Grox fled here, and defeated all of their extra-universal colonies, except for two close to one another, spared by a last-ditch military manoeuver. The people of the colonies Zoii had captured were modified into powerful Mite-like creatures, but it's justified by the fact that the latter's former home nation attacked first. Please bear in mind that this faction isn't evil, and Zoii isn't, either, but they attack when provoked.

The second faction is the survivors of that devastating invasion, composed of the people of those two colonies and what remains of the local military. Stranded by a specifically created code by Zoii that disabled and destroyed their trans-universal drives before the invasion even began, they decided to leave before Zoii launched another offensive, and therefore packed as many resources as they could aboard their ships, and built another large ship for civilian habiitation with the combined industrial strength of both worlds' workforces. After that, they left their planets behind, knowing that the next attack would be impossible to survive, and brought everything they had and everything they could bring with them. Based on long-range signal probing, they have determined a location in the vicinity of a large concentration of nations home to multiple races, knowing that they'd have better chances of survival there, where the weak would have better chances of survival. Once first contact is established with the UAE, I intend for them to contact the ULE, if possible, and maybe the GEC's Mirusian colonies, because I'm certain that they have a lot in common with the predecessor nation of this group.

Anyway, here are your answers: First, I don't think similarity alone will garner the support of the Hive, because it's also a religiously motivated nation, but it could have a strategic importance to them nevertheless. I'd have to check the situation when it happens. Second, the Hive doesn't nessecarily seek allies, but it can accept such partnerships, but again, they wouldn't co-operate with the nations that you listed because of their religions. The Hive Of Mirus is solidly Exilist, and will not derive from that sense except with the Dark One's plans with them. And third, the Hive's only plans for expansion outside of Mirus is in the Milky Way, so that they may claim regions with religious significance to them; Before coming to Mirus, they lived in their home universe's Milky Way, which has no less than three locations of religious significance to them, which mostly has corresponding coordinates in this universe. As of yet, I only have serious colonisation intentions for one of them, but none of this goes against the possibility of Phradox expansion for strategic purposes. In fact, these plans remind me of something that happened in the other universe not too long ago.

Also, that plan for the Hive I mentioned was a reference to that possibility of attacking the VineClaw Clan that I think we discussed once a while back. I hope to include that as part of Year 2, but I need to discuss this with you more, which I'll likely get to do in this thread.