Akestos
Surge Lord
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Breeding Chamber for Hive Organisms.
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Canon Link: Cloning | Shaping Protocol
Primary Source: The Long Conflict (Concept Design)
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: The Hive Mind
Affiliation: Closed Market | SwarmSurge
Model: Hive Breeding Chamber
Modularity: Size, Shape, and Material.
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Biological
SPECIAL FEATURES
Strengths:
+Self Healing. Superficial damage takes a few days. More serious damage takes anything up to two weeks.
+Can be created anywhere, from the biomatter of many different Organisms.
+Can be located underground, and made small or large in size depending on what it is breeding.
+Large organisms such as a Rancor take roughly 10 Days or upwards per chamber. Regularly sized creatures such as a humanoid or drone take around 5 Days and Smaller creatures such as a cat or dog can be made in a few days, done in batches depending on their size.
+Comes imprinted with one creature to produce, any alteration requires connection to a hive node or intelligent convergence. Convergences are creatures with sentient intelligence in contact with the greater hive mind.
Weaknesses:
-It cannot make just any species, the Hive needs to have learned the species biology well enough to recreate it. It needs a lot of DNA and trial and error to do this effectively. This information is communicated via hive nodes and intelligent convergences to be stored in other Hive Structures like a memory. The range of which is dependent on the hive node structure or intelligent creature broadcasting and receiving it. Force users, for example, often make great convergences.
-Requires connection to a node or convergence creature to make anything other than a single creature.
-It requires biomatter to make species. At least as much as what it's creating.
-It has no defenses of its own.
-It requires the Hive infect an area, then seed it, then Hive it before these even start to be constructed.
DESCRIPTION
A large orange or red chamber situated anywhere it can be hidden. The air is usually drier around hive structures and that is just as true here. Large or small, it is usually oval but can take on other circular shapes for different species. Often you'll find clusters of these together. In many cases it'll be no bigger than a box, breeding several smaller creatures at once. Others it will be as big as a building, breeding a giant for the Hive. This is generally run from the Swarm's collective will for existence and integration, though in the earlier days of seeding a new biosphere it might be the Hive Mind's focused consciousness, and in later stages of a Hive, it might fall under the Surge's impulse to push for expansion.
[member="Raien Keth"] spent many long years working on biotechnology. First with the sunguard, then the midnight guard and then any creations he could get his hand on, progressing finally to biological droids as all his previous creations had failed him in some way. In the final days of the One Sith and that of his life, when vong shaping or biotech was more common, he took inspiration to build The Long Conflict. The first of several biohives, which he then spread to worlds he had holdings or interest in. Byss, Prakith, Korriban and other darkside nexus's were primary choices, but also worlds like Kashyyyk and Thrysus that he and his acolytes had long histories with, among others.
On his death, and eventual disappearance at the hands of [member="Taeli Raaf"], the remaining acolytes fueded over his legacy for many years. Some fell to the lightside, some died and others were set on a particular course. [member="Kylraya"] was one of them. When the GA liberated much of OS space, they did much to undo what he'd done, but they didn't know everything, every hidden location that he'd been in, and every experiment that he'd done. He'd had a long life. When the GA released its control over certain worlds, fading into history, the remaining fragmented one sith forces reactivated their new Master's plans. Directive 15. Use what you have [member="Darth Centax"].
One of these things were the Biodroid hives, and what they were also adapted to create Surge Drones. It was on Prakith that their greed and folly was their undoing because these drones escaped their captors. That was when the facilities were remade, to serve the SwarmSurge.
[member="Raien Keth"] spent many long years working on biotechnology. First with the sunguard, then the midnight guard and then any creations he could get his hand on, progressing finally to biological droids as all his previous creations had failed him in some way. In the final days of the One Sith and that of his life, when vong shaping or biotech was more common, he took inspiration to build The Long Conflict. The first of several biohives, which he then spread to worlds he had holdings or interest in. Byss, Prakith, Korriban and other darkside nexus's were primary choices, but also worlds like Kashyyyk and Thrysus that he and his acolytes had long histories with, among others.
On his death, and eventual disappearance at the hands of [member="Taeli Raaf"], the remaining acolytes fueded over his legacy for many years. Some fell to the lightside, some died and others were set on a particular course. [member="Kylraya"] was one of them. When the GA liberated much of OS space, they did much to undo what he'd done, but they didn't know everything, every hidden location that he'd been in, and every experiment that he'd done. He'd had a long life. When the GA released its control over certain worlds, fading into history, the remaining fragmented one sith forces reactivated their new Master's plans. Directive 15. Use what you have [member="Darth Centax"].
One of these things were the Biodroid hives, and what they were also adapted to create Surge Drones. It was on Prakith that their greed and folly was their undoing because these drones escaped their captors. That was when the facilities were remade, to serve the SwarmSurge.
