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 take 3 Days Per Chamber. Regular humanoid sized take 1 Day, and Small can be made in batches of up to a dozen per day.
Weaknesses:
-It cannot make just any species, the Hive needs to have learned the species well enough to recreate it. It needs a lot of DNA and trial and error to do this effectively.
-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 small house, breeding a giant for the Hive.
[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 someway. 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 someway. 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.
