Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20171102142934/@comment-4960835-20171124195855

Well yeah, but probably not too closely. They work purely for their own gain and nothing else. Remember they are still extemely socially unstable backstabbing crustaceans at heart who don't give two fucks about you if it advances their position. At their core, these things haven't changed at all - loyalty means nothing to them. Caligustus at least had tactical reasons for backstabbing, while these guys and their anchestors do it just because they can.

Also this means that they are extremely fractious with no unifying authority as each Tyrant believes he should be in charge and fleets thus continuously splinter off one another for basically whatever reason they can come up with. So while one fleet might very well ally with Fenric and his sucessors, the other's won't. Even more, some ambitious Tyrants will also splinter from the group that allied with Fenric, ostesibly because they disagree with it but in reality because they just want to lead. And some will splinter from other fleets to join the group that allies with Fenric because they believe that will advance their positions.

The females encourage their mates to do this since this way, they spread out quicker and thus can absorb new DNA a lot faster. There's no infighting between the fleets either: in fact, in contrast to the males, the females of all fleets work together in perfect harmony to share DNA amongst each other, while being the puppetmasters that control their Tyrant mates on every level.

The Hermicee changed into Hermicce on the Orgaat page, then it spread out from there. They're still officially the Hermicee though - Hermicce are simply Hermicee from Mirus.