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Public Jungles of New Cov

NEW COV, WILDS

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Deep within the emerald coils of New Cov’s untouched jungle, where no corporate harvesters dared buzz and the canopy smothered the light like a jealous god, something had rooted.

It was no plant, though it pulsed with life.
Not a beast, though it hunted.
Not a machine, though its parts creaked with metal and wet breath.

It was a Nest.

A spiraling mass of chitin, bone, and bioluminescent tendrils rose from the forest floor like a tumor grown from the planet itself. Veins of ichor ran up twisted pillars of reconstituted armor plating and fungal growths. Creatures—both native and unwise off-worlders—had disappeared into its gullet. None returned.

At the center of it all, buried beneath pulsing walls of sinew and scrap, the Heart beat.

It was not a metaphor.

Organic conveyors—crafted from flesh stripped of memory—shuttled biomass from the jungle’s edges to this central chamber. A chittering parade of skittering husks, malformed hulks, and slithering scouts devoured whatever they could sink claw or fang into: vinecats, scale-hoppers, predatory mycorrhizals, even the black-barked saplings that screamed when uprooted. All could be consumed, assimilated, and used.

The Heart was where the memories of prey were digested.
Understood.
Rewritten.

What was useful was kept. Muscular coils from the arboreal predators were grafted onto new war-beasts. Photosynthetic nodules from wide-fronded flora were stitched into hunter-scouts that fed on sunlight. One husk even sang now, a haunting echo mimicking the call of the jungle’s avians, drawing prey closer.

Mr. Usher was not in the nest. He was the nest — and more.

His Ego drifted in the Nether, tangled in ghostlights and dark current. Here, in the soil and shadows, his husks touched root. Every heartbeat of this colony was his own. Every scream it silenced added to the choir behind his thoughts.

This was not a mere infestation. This was preparation. One of many colonies, on one of many planets.

New Cov’s wilds offered endless variation. The Ego craved variation. It demanded evolution. One might think it sacrilege to sculpt the Force’s will using vines, bark, and bone—but Mr. Usher was not a priest. He was a surgeon. A butcher. A godling made of the dead, hubris and all.

New Cov, in its teeming primal glory, was very generous with biomass if one could hunt as the jungle did.



 
Wearing: Darkspawn Raiments

Armed with: Dauntless Blade

Though the flesh that called itself Ersethy simply for the sake of having a designate for others to use had the knowledge of the Lightsaber, it still preferred alchemized metal swords for the sake of bloodshed.

It had come to New Cov to corrupt the planet, only to sense a corruption that rivalled it's own slowly spreading.

It could suffer no rivals. Would suffer no rivals. It would seek out, try to dominate. And if it could not dominate, it would try to destroy it.

The skin suit worn by the Darkness, that of a pale skinned redhead whose features were an amalgamation of all the monstrous witches who had fused together by accident thousands of years ago walked the dangerous forests of New Cov guided only by the Darkness inside it, and the Flesh's faith in the Mawite gods of Thomas Barran Thomas Barran . If this...presence... could be tamed...if anything could be learned from it...

Then the Darkness would use it to bring glory to the cause of The Dark Three.

Ersethy had a basic, apparently mass production Alchemized Sword slung over its back. It had command of the Force--an IMMENSE command.

But the Flesh powered only by Darkness, utterly lacking a soul, even it's original, gestalt soul, still enjoyed hands on butchering...

It was not long before the predators of the fierce wilds, themselves driven mad by the emergence of the thing corrupting the world soon arrived. The flesh took an earthly pleasure as the sensation of imminent slaughter approached. For the Darkness powering the thoughts of the flesh it wore to manifest itself in this reality, it was merely a minor chore.

The hive mind husk that the Darkness gave voice and thought to took great pleasure in cruelly, slowly butchering the wild like with her alchemized sword, wreathed in red flames.

Red flames capable of damaging even alchemized or Force imbued Objects escaped her throat melting tough hides and increasing the agony of the wild predators as they died. The flesh savored the death coursing through it, feeding off the suffering inflicted. It took its time. It was in no rush.

But as the flesh...and the Darkness puppeting it would soon learn...

Even a vessel such as this was still vulnerable to the unexpected.

Toying with some of its prey before killing them, and the ease with which they were dominated and slain, it almost didn't notice a strange multicolored mosquito like insect the size of a baseball.

That insect's species was the local badass in this part of the jungle. It gave no feths, and if it had been offered any, would have politely declined the offer had it been sapient enough to comprehend it.

It saw an evil witch demon-thingy, mutilating it's fellow denizens and it's instinct was to throw hands, and divebomb the evil schutta. Not because it cared about the fate of its jungle peers, but simply because it wanted to throw hands.

(Worf From First Contact: Today is a good day to die!)

Ersethy had gotten done butchering a particularly large beast when it felt the insect's needle pierce her side, continuously shanking her and injecting its strange poison into its body. It wasn't particularly concerned with its own survival, more just shanking the beast like it was a Riddick who had found himself an Ulak Blade...

The flesh staggered back fever already setting in. She tried to swipe at it but the Insect had already flown off, not because it wanted to survive, but because it was tired and needed a break from shanking someone.

The host body of the darkness felt its flesh bubbling and rippling everywhere uncontrollably, her face breaking down in a contorted expression of agony, shifting between every witch of its gestalt consciousness and swelling violently, steam escaping from its ears, mouth, eyes, nose, and horrible fissures that split open on its arms and legs

The explosion of gore spread a mess of white blood, rotted yellow organs and shreds of its gown everywhere. The largest lumps of remains remained inert for a half hour, being avoided by animals and even an explorer from New Cov who came across it, recognized the remains of a Force Spawn starting to stir, and wisely NOPED the hell out of that area as fast as his legs would carry him.

The masses of flesh formed seven humanoid bodies, each naked, and covered in barely regrowing shreds of Ersethy's gown.

Somia, the witch that looked the most like the master of Starlin Rand Starlin Rand was the first to open her eyes after Erio. Though all witches looked distinct the one uniting factor was that they all possessed some degree of red hair.

Each violent, depraved Sorceress hungered for energy now...

Somia looked at Ymira, the tallest of them, and the only one who had been an actual worshipper of the Dark Three thousands of years in the past...

"This jungle has proven to be an unexpected challenge..." The Darkness said through Somia's lips, puppeting all of them, but giving the Somia-Body command authority of the other hosts it's main one had been forcibly split into.

Their collective instinct was to immediately try to re-merge.

This caused their bodies to explode again it took ten minutes to reform. As long as the insects poison was in their bodies, they could not reform.

Thalia, Pretending Mistress, given thought and voice only because it was the darkness 'roleplaying' as her, bound to the rules of this universe snorted at Somia.

"This is what we get for letting you take the wheel so often..." she said with a snort, starting ahead of the other, angered witches after they had recreated copies of Ersethy's gown to wear to look at least civilized as they trudged through the jungle...

"And now, thanks to you, we are at a disadvantage..." Erio grumbled as she followed.

Somia only snorted in division and followed soon after...

Mr. Usher Mr. Usher
 
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To Mr. Usher's surprise, the first being to discover his presence was neither military nor industrial, but something else. Something with these lands, something like him, in some sense. While their biological inniards were vastly different, there was a connection from the human-shaped thing that fell prey to what Mr. Usher had taken to calling the "Meltsquito" and other forms.

Maybe there was other creatures like him. Maybe there were things to learn. Maybe it was merely competition for resources, though the creature seemingly was either limited to or preferred human-presenting forms.

More interestingly, it seemed much more firmly rooted in the Force than he - connected through it perhaps, instead of relying on a singular Ego-entity in its own Nether pocket. He could only speculate.

As the force spawn reformed itself, Mr. Usher birthed feline husks from the heart to retrieve the dead biomass of the slain beasts - some his sentries, others native to these jungles.

He left one of these husks near the regenerating corpse of the spawn ( Ersethy Ersethy ) - restraining himself from consuming any of the white blood or yellow organs. Digesting the flesh of a competing hive mind did not seem like something one should do lightly.

The feline creature - gorged to a swollen belly from the carnage consumed in the wake of Ersethy Ersethy - shifted itself, rearranging muscle, bone, and sinew and growing back onto two legs to the most familiar form of the Host.

What appeared to be a thin man bereft of skin waited, unnecessary organs left unmade while it formed more cohesive vocal cords, lips, teeth, and tongue - to communicate via spoken words, judging by the humanoid appearance of the Force Spawn. Failing that, perhaps he would try pheromone or electromagnetic communication.

Sometimes, information was more valuable biomass. All the sentient minds he's consumed had proven that to him time and again.

"You're not like anything I've eaten. What are you?" The frail husk of muscle and bone asked when it thought the figure could hear.


 
The Pack of murderous witches, minds and flesh without a soul, animated only by The Dark Side, trudged into the thick of the woods, each their own special brand of hell on earth. Erio, with her talent at inducing poisoning effects, Rhondra, with her treacheries at Stealth. Somia, with her brute strength in the Force and mastery of flames. Edia, with her crushing strength over the earth. Thalia, with her dangerous capacity for luring Light Side users into trusting her with a false light side aura, Hilda, with her penchant for a burning touch and brute strength in hand to hand, and Ymira, possibly the most cunning and devious of them, for it was her experiments that had first blended them all together, grew more irritated at being unable to emerge. The Meltsquito poison was truly something unique to affect one so powerful.

The master fragments of Ersethy soon encountered a skinless being who asked them their name and nature. The Darkness animating all of their evil bodies selected Somia (See Bio) to speak for them.

"We are a Hive divided..." Somia replied in a sneer, examining the skinless being. The Darkness roleplayed all of them according to their personalities when they still had a collective soul. Somia's had been arrogant and bloodthirsty...

"And I presume you are the disturbance consuming this jungle? Hmmm..." Somia snorted, her exotic features twisted by unrepentant cruelty and malice.

"We are not one. But even divided, any one of us can match you. Even the weakest of us..." Somia boasted. "Perhaps if you submit to us we may have some small use for you in the future...what is your goal here?" it asked Mr. Usher Mr. Usher

(Cutaway of J. Jonah Jameson laughing uncontrollably at Somia's proposal which he knows will fail)
 
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"A hive... divided." The skinless being considered. The curiousity of the greater Ego outmatched the instinct to preserve this form of Biomass.

It seeked to understand, as it had been slowly coming to understanding the jungle itself.

"Minds interlinked but still separate in thought or... personality."

"We are not one. But even divided, any one of us can match you. Even the weakest of us..." Somia boasted. "Perhaps if you submit to us we may have some small use for you in the future...what is your goal here?"

"Is this an exchange you seek? For me to submit a payment biomass for information?" Some of the grotesque feline-like husks gathered near the humanoid.

"By your own comparison I, we" the humanoid gestured to the pack of scavengers emerging from the brush, cautious but curious, creeping forth in tandem. "Are a hive undivided. My goal is no different than that of the wildlife. To live, learn, and grow. To do so in a manner that can continue to do so without depleting the sources of biomass I consume and replicate. For that purpose, I prepare for a long war against most who intrude in the wilds."

"But I am still me. Just as these other vessels of consumed biomass are me, the plants and the creatures—sentient and otherwise—each carry information and memories that become my own. They become me and I them, no distinction between the two.


The boastful one, Somia, seemed to issue more of a challenge rather than an exchange.

"This vessel was made to retrieve and scavenge. It was not made for violence, as such I don't doubt your capability insofar as these vessel are concerned."

The humanoid husk seemed to stare at the struggling reunion of the parts before him. It tilted its head in thought, extending a finger into a needle-like proboscis and a glowing green bulb of antitoxin - a reverse engineered antidote of what the 'Meltsquito' had injected.

"If you seek a challenge, neither of our forms would be an adequate representation of our capacity - nothing useful will be learned." The husk approached with the antidote, slow enough that the arm could easily be swatted away (or torn off) should the mind of this Force Spawn intend to remain fractured for some reason unfathomable to Mr. Usher.


 

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