Fiction:Xenomorphic Broods/Cults

The most surprising feature among the Broods are the number of Cultists and Non-Parastoid creatures that congregate and worship around the Xenomorphs and their Hive. These beings are rendered completely insane and unstable by psychic contact with the Queen Mothers and their disgusting servants, the Malancerebrums, corrupting and breaking the minds of those that are even near the Xenomorphs for too long a length of time. The cults will use the "Royal Jelly", a blackened goo that is produced from the Queen and Xenomorphs after a while of movement and living for a long time. The Cults will use this substance to induce mutations in themselves and come closer to their gods, this allows them to not only move amongst their "Gods" without being targeted, but also grants them enhanced strength and further insectoid nature as they bred amongst themselves. Future generations become so Xenomorph-like few can tell the difference between them and the actual Xenomorphs when enough time passes.

The Cults all owe their origin to the original Cult that became the puppets of the Queen-Mothers, the Cult of the Star-Born, a group that has broken off, reformed and spread out among the stars and worlds for so long, the cult doesn't exist anymore, it's members splintering off not only to make it harder for them to be tracked, but to better acclimate to each new world they inhabit. As such, though the Cults use their Magi to maintain contact, it is rare for the members to actually meet each other, and Cult members, due to their wild breeding habits, can have family members on worlds thousands of light years away.

Cult members seek, above all, to have children, both so to spread their numbers further, and so their mutations will run more wild. Each generation becomes more and more Xenomorph-like, and as such, harder to hide. The hope is that, when the time is right, they will not need to hide, and such mutations can be used for the Cult's benefit. To assist in spreading their numbers, they will inject the Royal Jelly in food and water supplies. While this will dilute it over time, enough of it can mingle in the blood system of beings to make a few of them Cultists themselves, the material make them more open to the Psychic influence of Malacerebrum and Cult Magi. Further, members will join populist groups, ranging from disgruntled reactionary militia, worker unions and movements, Anarchist and other revolutionary groups, and even other religious, fringe cults to try and subvert them, hoping to, over time, convince and change their views to be more useful to the Cult. Other times, they will target the lonely, destitute and drug addicts of indoctrination or embryo implantation.

Some members will allow themselves to be face-hugged, especially if the Hive is low in numbers and needs more drones then it does Cultists. The Cultists view themselves as ultimately expendable, and will allow themselves to "impregnanted" and ripped up all in the hopes of securing the future of their gods.

After victory over a world, the Cults will take their eggs and samples, and leave for the stars, settling in the dead of night on other worlds, ready to start again.

Notable Cults

Church of the Queen Matron

• Cult-Leader - Father Krolgan Markaris
• Strengths - Large Numbers, Drug Trade Connections

The largest and most successful of the Cults, is the Church of the Queen Matron is the current leading cult, and one with the strongest connection to the Hives, as well as boasting incredible strong ties to the drug trade and cartels, using their connections to ship drugs and narcotics laced with Accelerant Gel to create further Cultists, Xenomorph-spawned mutants or just easy to procure addicts for their future uses in battle and warfare. The Church of the Queen Matron, with it's use of mixing drugs, spreads it's influence across the galaxy, countless other cartels, drug dealers and druggies answer to the Cult, knowingly or not, and come to expand the Church's interests and power structure. The Church, as part of it's first moves to secure itself and expand itself, began recruiting advanced scientists, bioengineers and genetic engineers, and, whether they knew it or not, began experimenting with Accelerant Gel, produced from the Queen Mothers itself, and having their scientists mix and tinker with this Gel, and Xenomorph DNA, to put into all sorts of products to benefit the Cult and their Star Gods, including skin care products, drinks, spices, and, most notably, drugs, both prescription and narcotics.

Getting their peers addicted and hooked on drugs and these materials is their goals to expand their numbers, so as to get new blood into their Church as possible. The Church has many Cultists spread their numbers among their former drug users, having many, many members spread far and wide. While many of their Cultists are spread far from the rest of the Church, and do not have the oversight of the Father, they enact separate acts of terrorism, spreading their influence and infiltrating other groups to destabilize and weaken the governments and institutions from afar. Others, who become addicted to the drugs, but do not display mutations or fall under the sway of the Church, simply become addicted, and these figures become either breeding victims for the Cult members or future hosts for Xenomorph embryos, as their spiraling life styles make them easier to take off the streets. To help in their spreading, the Church recruits a number of Cartels and Drug Dealers to help spread their spiked materials among the population.

Leading the Church is Father Krolgan Markaris, a Zarbanian who has become the leader after the death of the last Cult head in a battle. He has come to expand the numbers of scientists and engineers within the Cult with the new focus on bio-engineering, after the Church's leader died in a failed revolt and almost left the Church to die. As such, he prefers more a subtle version of breaking down the societies that threaten the Xenomorphs and their followers.

Esoteric Brotherhood of Kutiulo

• Cult Leader - Father Mokartha
• Strengths - Advanced numbers of Cult-Magi

Cult of the Star Children

• Cult Leader - Mother Kikartoi
• Strengths - Underground assaults

Cult of the Abyssal Monarchs

• Cult Leader - Hierarch Fauser
• Strengths - Survivalists

Church of Divine Delights

• Cult Leader - Mother Cotaria
• Strengths - Deep connections among royal and upper class families, brothel and sex worker control.