Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20171102142934/@comment-4960835-20171123195019

@Crimson: That really depends on how closely you want to allign your faction with other human nations and tribes.

@Zilla: There's actually something I want to run by with you. You see, ecologically speaking, Hermicee and Loron occupy the same niche in the Mirusian galactic ecosystem, with both having practically the same ranks/life cycle (Male: Drone/Boy -> Big Drone/Betta Boy -> Stawberry Gaint/Sicka Boy -> Raspberry Giant/Killa Boy + Female: Crackrina/Norol). Heck, both even use the word "Tyrant" to denominate their leaders (a term the Mirus Loron borrowed from the Hermicee Legion, who were in Mirus first?).

Of course, this is going to create a lot of conflict and for the early Loron migrants, quite some problems. The Mirusian Hermicee (=Hermicce) are already widespread by the time that the Loron arrivive. And they reproduce fast. Like, really, really fast. This would place a lot of evolutionary stress on the Mirus Loron, who would cope by reproducing a lot faster themselves. That way, we don't have to throw chemicals into the mix because biology doesn't work like that. It also would explain their isolationism - with the Hermicce everywhere in Mirus, the Mirus Loron would only be able to thrive in those spots where there are little to no Hermicce - and that was practically nowhere.

Then the Hermicee Legion vanishes in the anhillation alongside their "native" Chaordo Galaxy (which I assume was either a Mirus sattelite due to it's tiny size or a galaxy close to it much like the Elalma Galaxy). The Hermicce are now cut off from their anchestral kin and devolve to infighting. In order to recover their lost glory, they ally with the Infectants but that backfires when the Infectants nom most of their remaining population. That, coupled with the shenanigans of the Rogue Boys, allows the Mirus Loron to take over the Hermicce's spot in Mirus. Thus they begin to organise themselves.

Is that acceptable? It doesn't make much sense for two superpredators in the same ecological niche in overlapping ranges not to interact. One is eventually going to replace the other.

@Crimson: Following up on that, when we last talked abou the Hermicee (back when Chantal wasn't permabanned), I brought up the idea of the tiny surviving Hermicce populationg going trough a genetic bottleneck and then becoming another species. You went off on that idea and came up with something like a giant spider crab, if I remeber correctly. Nothing eally ever came from that and I somehow was resistent to it back then but I must admit I now find that idea quite interesting.

This is what I've got: So after the Second Infectant War, the Hermicce find themselves hopelessy outreproduced by the Mirus Loron, who by now reproduce as fast as they do and take their niche away from them. They begin to starve and, in desperation, fall upon the last populations of mobile Botana, absorbing them into their own bodies (This is something you came up with) and pretty much make them kinda like the Orgaat, the Hermicce's secondary rivals (but not as much as the Mirus Loron, because different ecological niches and all).

They would continue tho be stuck in this transitionary state for a while until after Attero Dominatus. Some Dominatus seek to flee the destruction of their Tyranny, and it suffices for a single one of them to be absorbed by a Krakrinna (Hermicce Crackrina) for it's data to incorporated and then distributed to the wider population. The Krakrinnas see this Dominatus DNA as a way out of the bleak situation: using it to it's fullest, they swap niches.

Both Hermicce and Lororn are based off Orks; if the transitionary Hermicce slightly resemble Squigs then the newfound Hermicce-descended species, combining the hunger of the Hermicce with the mallability of the Dominatus, act like the Tyrannids.

They would grow big. Their reporoduction would slow down. And they begin to look like monstrous spider crabs with thee to five eye stalks and much-reduced abdomens whose sole purpose is to spray bio-plasma bio-engineered to disable ship hulls and Hagfish jaws pop out of a seemingly toothless mouth to scrape trough starship hulls and multiple sea annemone-like tentacled tongues that extend from that to gobble whatever meat the thing can find inside. Oh, and they can survive in the vacuum of space too.

And those are just the males, abeit in the Giant phase. There are three genders. Male, female and genderless. The genderless ones hatch from unfertilised eggs, and simple remain small, undifferentiated workerswho remain the most simmilar to the corresponding Hermicce caste in shape. The males hatch from eggs that have undergone temperature fluctuations, and as this new species generally prefers hot planets, there are lots of those. The females hatch from fertilised eggs whose surrounding temperature has (artificially) remained stable. Of course these are the minority, but they too have diversified.

There are Larders, Pulsers, Incubators and Directors. Each of them has only one role. The Larders are more akin to honeypot ants. The workers pick up whatever food the males have regurgitated and feed it to the Larders, who store it, refine it and belch it up when there is no food sourse available, such as during interstellar travel. The Pulsers are more akin to termite queens, and their sole purppose is to churn out eggs. The Incubators have abdomens simmilar in function to the back of the pipa toad. Workers move the laid eggs on top of them, and the Incubators then form a honeycomb-like structure, aborbing the egg into their own skin where it develops and hatches. They have the ability to regulate thir own body temperature. Finally, the Directors are nearly all brain (stored, again, in their abdomen) and; like the Kaktrinnas of yore, direct the fleets, workers, and males.

How does that sound? (And what was your name for those things again?)