King Solterra

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Not to sound rude, Duck, but if you're going to take a quote from yourself and have it as your signature, you may want to have everything spelled correctly. As it is a personal statement that will forever (until taken down) be seen by multiple people. You don't have to nor are required, it is just a suggestion

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Planet N-1

The Plaeriques sensed casually at the beings that crawled out from their ship. Their heads twitched and they stretched their necks upward, focusing on the sounds. When one of them stomped their foot against the hull they all perked up, slowly scurrying towards the stomp. However, they kept their distance. While none were acting cautious or prepared to enact self defense, they seemed friendly; the only thing that could be aensed was that they were curious. One of the Plaeriques closest to the being suddenly moved forward, not alarmingly or fast, just casually approached the being and made a low howling sound, as if it was trying to communicate. It's body language also changed, showing it was friendly, approachable, and carefree. It didn't rear its claws, but it did start to slowly creep towards the being with its head, brushing up against it to get a feel for it. (Essentially acting like a dog).

The other Plaeriques stood still, as if closely observing the being now, watching to see what it would do. The other Plaeriques had changed their behavior, but still not prepared to fight. They were now under direct control of a Praefectus, and the beings could sense there was something different, they were being watched, tested.

Slowly, but surely, a fair distance from N-1, one of the two hives that stayed back started to approach. It's size much greater than the others and traveling much slower than the othera had been. At 3,000 km long and 2,000 km high, it was the largest hive out of all of them. But it was different, there was intelligence inside it, but separate... And it also was not preparing to fight, but observe like the Plaeriques were.

The nuzzling Plaerique looked up at the being, waiting for its next move.

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Hives have 1 offensive and defensive weapon; carapace armored egg pods. They do everything. Shotgun minigun style.

Edit; well, they do have their smog-gas which is radiated gunk mixed with oxygen and hydrogen and other things, it's the give off from how the Hive's create oxygen for themselves and the Esurienti that infest them when in space. But I doubt radiated smog would do much even if they expelled all of it.

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Just outside Planet N1

Moving in now at about half a billion kilometers from the planet N1, five Hive ships were entering the space, two more staying behind. They were attracted to the fighting here stronger than else where at the moment and they wanted to see what was happening. One of the Hive's veered for the moon N1-M1 and proceeded to land on it and prepare its nesting on it. It was the smallest of the others ranging about 1,400 kilometers. The other four proceeded to the planet where the fighting had begun. One of the Hives, however, also split off, ranging about 2,700 meters, approached the three Explorers in Orbit. It didn't attack, but it launched three carapace eggs above each Explorer. The Hive was still a good distance away, keeping caution. The eggs would hatch multiple Plaeriques that would scatter in space and grab onto the Explorers. They didn't attack or damage the hull and so far presented no threat to the ships. They didn't even attempt to damage the hull. This would go on for few more minutes, clings and clunks against the hull, the sounds of the creatures grabbing the hull to brace themselves or hold on, and the pattering as they walked about on it. They were searching for a way to enter the ship, and while they were cautious, they were docile, as if just being curious. Showing the signs of any harmless creature that was just curious about seeing something new. Plaeriques are blind, as they feel the hull to find what they were looking for.Eventually they would just create patters, like knocking. They would slowly and constantly knock every few minutes until they could find a way to communicate with the ones inside.

Meanwhile the other four Hives lined up to face the planet very slowly and appeared to just hover there, doing nothing, or waiting. It could be seen that the four Hives had mouths and were appearing to be anxious with their large mouth movements, but they didn't do anything.

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Oh, they detect mass? I wanted to speak about that. Hives give off a small heat signature, but they are entirely organic, so the best they can give off is a mass signature or radiation give-off.

Edit: P.S. - They aren't just spamming eggs onto the planet, they will be sending something that is essentially a greeting to the ships above before sending down their pods. They wouldn't send any pods down at all usually, but they sense the presence of another Hive mind, and they can get jealous.

Edit2: Apologies, disregard the Windshield/camera question. I apologize if I may have insulted your peoples blindness. The blindness wasn't connecting with the windshield/cameras for some reason at first

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Sorry, I will rephrase, they will safely crash anywhere that does not kill anyone or damage structures. However, this means they would land on a roadway or a field.

Also, I had made this edit:

Edit: Do the Explorer ships have a Bridge that has a large... well... windshield, of sorts? Or is it just camera's? Either one works.

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1 Hive can launch about 4,000 eggs, and that's a minimum. Each egg holds 10+ creatures. The spores can not affect them also, as they would be taken control of directly by a Praefectus

Edit: Mind you, this doesn't mean they will FIRE EVERYTHING. They reserve so many eggs in case they are fired at by enemy ships and use them as shields, er, well, meat shields.

Edit2: For those that may just be reading this and think this may be gamebreaking; the Esurienti's technology is numbers. Any Esurienti, excluding the Tormenta's, are nearly defenseless. While they have carapace armor.... well, this is an example. a Modern day human Soldier could take down 10+ of them without effort with the standard rifle and ammo, and still have bullets left over in the clip. A Futuristic human soldier could take down probably 20+ without effort. It's expected for them to die and majority of the time they are used as sacrifices. They are also the soldiers and civilians. They burrow, create nests, catch food to feed themselves and communicate. They are the military force and population. In the unlikely event that the Hives launched every egg they had for a ground assault, it would require only a minimum of 3,000-5,000 troops in fortified positions to take them all down. Which in this situation, appears to be exactly that.

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They'll just crash everywhere.

Edit: Do the Explorer ships have a Bridge that has a large... well... windshield, of sorts? Or is it just camera's? Either one works.

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Alright Wilson, it;s Planet N1 that's under attack by the Spore Hive Mind, correct?

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Wow, so... is every Nation just immediately hostile to foreign beings?