Fiction:Cyranai Hivemind

"<For years, decades, centuries, we've been surrounded, attacked, enslaved. The foul wretches who call themselves the Bisistar mocked us, laughed at us as they striked down upon our worlds, trying to instigate hopelessness on us. I say no to that. And, by joining our forces and merging into one big superpower, I encourage you to do the same. 'I say, the Bisistar will no longer stamp their vile feet on the Hivemind, and should they dare even think otherwise, then they'll finally know how it feels like to anger millions of beehives at the same time.>"

- Unknown

The Greater Cyranai Hivemind, also more informally known as just The Hivemind, is a lone galactic superpower located in the unexplored depths of the. Sharing the galaxy with two other superpowers - the and the, it is the smallest, and the only benevolent of the three titans. Having the advantage of being an old civilization and not being manipulated by the Bisistar, the Hivemind managed to spread easily throughout Cyranai while developing highly advanced technology, at the expense of being locked into an age-long war against the Bisistar, which isolate the Hivemind from other civilizations - including the Neraida - at all costs, leading the Hivemind to be unaware of the vast universe beyond Cyranai.

The Hivemind itself is composed of several insect-like species, which show some similarity to those found on Earth. All of them possess a respective hivemind - a key factor in their resistance against the Bisistar - and used this trait to merge into a single large collective consiousness. Due to this, it is difficult to tell if the Hivemind has an authority or political system, but it can be observed that each colony has a leader, which relays information retrieved from members of its colony to leaders of other colonies. Similarly, every colonized planet has an overwatcher which recieves the information from the leaders, and relays it to other overwatches, which then pass the information to the High Queens of the Hivemind. The same system works the other way around; if the High Queens may want to issue an order, they will send it to the overwatch(es) of the planet(s) they want, whom will send it to the leaders of the selected colonies, who will then pass on the order(s) to the worker drones.

Despite having a complex eusociality system, members of the Hivemind also show traits of individuality, which is mostly seen when not actively working on something, or when operating far from colonized territories. When on working mode, however, Hivemind members become all but drones.

(WIP)