@LegionPothIX

I'd imagine your race to be much like the flood, spore infection first then you take the ships of the ones you've infected. I'd say you'd snowball pretty heavily if left unchecked. There are a lot of other traits that your faction exhibits that would make it somewhat more difficult to melt such a snowball, such as ease of infection and being resistant to most if not all human weapons (Aside from fire, though I'd imagine there'd be something one about that too) So, anything short of molecular bond deconstruction or atomization would be an exercise in futility.

Hey, nothing better than some good old fashioned orbital bombardement.

Sorry but, I might not post for a while cause of an entrance exam that is tomorrow.

@Liotrent I was thinking more along the lines of the Zerg and the Borg when I made them. I didn't really play enough halo to get a sense of the flood. I also imagine that, given the setting, it'll be hard for them to go unchecked long enough to get the numbers to fight like any of those inspired source materials. I intend to play them more information warfare style with a gross ambivalence to suffering. Armies are just as often defeated ideologically as they are militarily after all.

@LegionpothIX

True, but think of this, if and when the galaxy erupts into chaos, the number of host species will increase. I've played enough halo to get the sense of scale and intelligence the flood posses. So, I can somewhat attest to how strong they are, they are so intelligent that they turned a Contender class A.I. (An A.I. that is smart enough to almost be called alive) against the Forerunners (The ones who killed the Precursors, the gods of their universe). In fact, you could start by infecting another species other than the Humans or at a place where their influence is so weak that you would just be considered just a plague.

I can actually see multiple options for you to snowball, but I can also see the information - cold war style approach working out for you. Getting people to fight each other just to assimilate their biomasses later when they are too weak to fight you off, or take their dead.

@Liotrent Those are all possibilities, yes. I'm not currently giving much thought to the future of the race, however, since its evolution directly mandates the participation of other players at this point. It's written in such a way that its intelligence is directly derived from the species under its influence, and the ubiquitous nature of humans have given it a baseline (elevated) intelligence.

Typically speaking, when I make characters for a play-by-post setting where anything like PVP might be involved, I make a character that only works if other people don't cheat. While I don't expect people to cheat in this game, the level of other player interaction inherent to the character is part of what draws me to this game. I don't get a lot of thoughtful interaction from intelligent people in my day-to-day life due to some unfortunate circumstances I find myself in.

Erryberdy's planets are all exploding and shit and I'm just here like: