#supercolony

[at-liberty-news]

Major Order Victory: Day 19

Greetings, viewers. Michael Adams here. Today marks a momentous but solemn victory as the Helldivers have succeeded in deploying enough dark fluid onto Meridia in order to transform it and the supercolony of Terminids upon it into a deadly singularity.

While originally the Meridian hive consisted of ten times the number of bugs on a planet such as Erata Prime, SEAF forces and microbubble pockets of dark fluid accretion have cut down their numbers multiple times throughout the operation. As the final hours dragged on since our last update, when the Terminids were at only 24% strength, they fell yet again to 16%, then 9%. In the planet's final moments, resistance dropped to 0% as it succumbed to the overwhelming gravity of the accumulated dark fluid.

All nearby Super Destroyers were forced to make emergency jumps to Super Earth in order to avoid being consumed. Medals and congratulations have been awarded to all involved, including the Moradesh scientists who have received the Super Citizenship Medal of Freedom. Super Earth has decomissioned the Moradesh facility and claims all dark fluid reserves are exhausted. In our opinion, they've likely simply moved efforts and stores to another, more discrete location.

Even as we celebrate the destruction of one of humanity's biggest threats, we must also mourn the loss of Meridia, a home many citizens can never return to again. Where untold billions of years of natural history and thousands of unique species have been wiped from existence in a singular moment, we'll always wonder...was it truly necessary?

With Operation "Enduring Peace" complete, napalm reserves for Eagle-1 strikes have been exhausted to regular levels and Helldivers are now standing by for their next major order. Stay tuned for more.

[gaybichon]

sorry how did i go my entire life without knowing about the ant wars

[etherealspacejelly]

Thoughts on ants’ super colonies? And the way they wage war?

hi yes thank you for asking my thoughts are as follows:

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hope that helps :)

[judes-dump]

Im really liking the new helldiver- OBJECTIVE CRITICAL STRATAGEM AVAILABLE -s mission

They made a whole new ma- OBJECTIVE CRITICAL STRATAGEM UNAVAILABLE -p

And it you get a free eagle and jump pac- OBJECTIVE CRITICAL STRATAGEM AVAILABLE -k

Might turn the volume down next time though

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[helldivers-2]

VICTORY.

Helldivers, thanks to your valiant efforts the Terminid Supercolony on Meridia has been eradicated.

All it took was courage, determination, and the total collapse of the planet into a black hole. A brave sacrifice that has not seen any unforeseeable consequences.

[fissile-materialism]

Feel inhuman? Feel alone? Like you don't belong or fit in with society? Feel uncomfortable with your own flesh? Then We have the solution for you! Join a nanite hive! Abandon your humanity and join a machine supercolony! For free! Where you're going, you won't need money, flesh, or relationships, the hive will take care of you, and you will take care of Us!

[professionalscrublord]

I made a funny, wondering what's going to happen with Meridia and the Terminid supercolony it was hosting, since it's in the background of the Illuminate update...

[triphantoms]

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oH No I accidentally released a supercolony of ants 😃

TITANOMACHIA!!!

- Ren 🃏

[ntls-24722]

Homo Mousike updated species refs + redesigns!

The Debu didn't get a redesign, more like an updated reference picture but nonetheless, the current Debu lore:

Debu are the most technologically behind out of all 3 sophonts in the homo mousike planet, they are in their stone age and still live in caves. They have recently begun to be sedentary to practice agriculture, and while they don't have metals, they have invented cement, where they will dig/carve out molds to pour it in and create whatever structure they need. They are an immensely successful species that have been sapient for significantly longer than the two Zebrapeople, yet have not moved meaningfully past their stone age, but this technological lag isn't due to a intellectual damper, but a lack of need.

Debu are enourmous, strong, but because their skin is bare and sensitive, if they they can't beat the daylights out of their attackers, they can just scale cliffsides as dubiously as a mountain goat and create massive caves for themselves for shelter. They are HEINOUSLY well adapted and the only reason they got sapient was because tool use got Debu insane amounts of hoes.

Debu used to be solitary, and they would call to one another like birds and at some point down the line, 1 proto-Debu was getting insane play because he was knocking on shit rhythmically while singing. This led to 2 species-wide realizations: Girls like cool sounds, so if you can make cooler sounds (by making instruments) you get more girls, and If MULTIPLE guys play together in a little band, they collectively get way more girls. These 2 combined brought the species to be communal through "concerts" and sapience through the tool use.

Zebrapeople are the most technologically advanced, in terms of humans, they're kind of at their ancient Sumerian point in history - meaning technically their world history just started but that's still miles ahead of the Debu.

Zebraelves came from something that kind of filled the niche of monkeys, crawling along land-coral branches like chameleons but became semi-hexapodal when their ancestor adopted their eusocial nature, in order to carry food across the branches to the rest of their colony. Speaking of, they have a eusocial social structure where most of the population are nonreproductive worker females, nomadic drones that group into a fraternity and migrate circularly around subcolonies to lay pipe to the reproductive female Queens that are thrice their size (around the size of humans)

Their biggest strength, as you might expect, lies in their eusocial nature - much like Argentine ants, the entire species is a part of one massive supercolony, meaning the entire species, fascinatingly, does not have wars with one another. Subcolonies do have tensions and general beef, of course, they're not a hivemind, but they're just extremely passive aggressive about things. Their tool use was actually what facilitated this - the Zebraelves were smart before this, and were not just workers in a colony, having much time to play. Any neighboring colonies would fight tooth and nail against eachother, the only truces being over liquor and their dances, where two colonies would temporarily relieve tensions to play and mess around. The intraspecies violence was actually insane to the point that inventing instruments to make larger dances and merge colonies actually became essential to their survival.

Wars with other species is on the table, as hypocritical as that is. Interestingly, they like to siege war on their "cousins" the most.

The Zebramen evolved from Zebraelves on an island close to the mainland, their eusociality and treedwelling status fading away as they got bigger and bigger. Eventually, like us, they became fully hexapodal to run across flat ground rather than across land coral branches. Interestingly, their civilization didn't start when they stopped being nomads, their civilization started when they got up and began to keep moving across the savannah. Inventing instruments for music helped them communicate as they herded the cattle that their entire livelihoods relied on, without wasting so much precious breath.

Interestingly, even though they're their closest extant relative, zebraelves are kind of hardwired to hate zebramen the most - to most zebraelves, zebramen are recognized as a seperate supercolony and there is some instinctual tension. But peace and union between the two species is not rare nor unheard of, cultural exchange is abundant and the two species are so closely related that hybridization occurs, creating the variably fertile, back problem-prone and human-sized zebragnomes.

Zebramen have 2 main ethnicities at this time, the black-and-white mainland zebramen, and the hot-pink insular zebramen, located exactly as their names suggest. They are big fans of the razzle dazzle, as when they were without queens and fraternity nomads, their evolution began to skew towards sexual selection, leading to an enjoyment of overly detailed, fancy decor and the bright-pink stripes on the insular Zebramen to this day.

[firekitten830]

Are Ethan's powers different because of Miranda's experimentation?

Well Ethan in canon never really got any powers other than crazy regeneration, so yes! Well, it’s not entirely because of her—the revelation that he’s not human awakened some things that had previously been suppressed, such as some limited shapeshifting and a more conscious connection with the sort of hive mind the mold creates. Miranda’s experimentation connected him directly to the root of the mutamycete supercolony, making his existing powers far stronger and giving him the ability to manipulate and control the mold beyond that which makes up his own body. However, this connection to it also means that he’s technically connected to all of the many thousands of minds stored within the root. Very few of them are collected enough to actually communicate with him, but the closer he is to it the more mental white-noise he gets, which makes it pretty hard to think clearly, especially if the mutamycete is more active than usual for whatever reason.

He’s extremely powerful because of this link, in many ways the only one of the lords powerful enough to truly pose a threat to Miranda. But he doesn’t know that, and she does everything she can to keep it that way. He doesn’t test the limits of what he can do, both out of his negative feelings toward what he is now, and out of a desire to not give Miranda what she wants from him. Miranda also deliberately puts him in as close proximity to the root as she can, as much as possible, as way to keep him docile. And, the closer he is to it, the more direct influence she can exert over him… of course, Ethan could turn that right back on her, if he really tried. But the only time he tried to influence her at all… well, he doesn’t really remember what she did to him. But he’s not keen on trying it again.

[izayoisakuyas]

Hihi!! can u make TransREMold, where u identify as being made of Mold from Resident Evil??

TransREMold

> A term describing those who desire to be made of Mold, a species primarily featured in Resident Evil, or are transitioning/have transitioned to be made of Mold.

symbol on the flag is meant to be a mold supercolony

[at-liberty-news]

Galactic War Status: Day 18

Michael Adams here, and we're back with another update on the war's progress in the past day. Let's get right into it!

As the fight for Meridia rages on, Terminid numbers continue to drop. Over the course of the day, Terminid resistance has decreased first to four point five times that of Erata Prime, then three point eight, and now two point four. This means the supercolony is now retaking ground less efficiently than the colonies on Hellmire and Phact Bay.

On the matter of other colonies, two new ones have been established by the insects on Turing in the Umlaut sector and Acamar IV in the Xin Ji sector. While Turing was initially important as a staging ground for the attack on Meridia, High Command has ordered the Helldivers to ignore these planets in order to secure what might be their only chance of destroying the supercolony.

At current rates, tomorrow we'll all be treated to seeing a planet-turned-singularity. We wait alongside all of you in anxious anticipation. That's all for now. Give 'em Hell, Divers!

[ampleappleamble]

What god do you think the Envoy is blessed by?

oh shit i totally forgot this has been in my asks for a minute i'm sorry anon!!!!! anyway, i think it might be a mushroom supercolony-infested elder dragon psuedogod from before the Engwithan pantheon. i will not be taking questions

[theknitinred]

One very common analogy for cosmic horror in general is that of an ant. You are utterly insignificant, at the mercy of incomprehensible beings that can do things that you cannot even hope to begin understanding the scope of. And worst of all, they don't even notice you - there is no malice here.

However, I feel that there is a great deal of potential here outside of just that.

Show me the humans who are randomly transplanted to a completely different plane of reality thanks to the passage of an eldritch entity and are forced to rebuild a semblance of life in an utterly alien world, like invasive species transported by mistake on trading ships. Show me how some random country like Mauritania suddenly becomes supremely powerful because of how the gods randomly scatter its people, becoming the human equivalent of a supercolony (check out these little guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_ant). Show me a group of people reacting as the very evidence of their senses betrays them, mysterious things warping their minds and actions for their own inscrutable purposes, like pheronome experimentation. Show me humans building on and around gargantesque, cyclopeanly incomprehensible structures and learning to hunt the new horrors teaming here, like urban ants.

Ants are cool

[terry-the-insane]

Animal of the Day for November 25: Argentine Ant (Species Linepithema humile)

The Argentine Ant is a relatively small ant with workers around 2.5mm long, but they make up for this with a fast reproduction rate compared to other ants. Argentine Ants are a widespread invasive species, with supercolonies that spread across nations.

Due to their sheer numbers, they easily wipe out native ants and other insects. However their conquest is challenged in some places by the (also invasive) Fire Ant, which is a natural enemy of Argentine Ants, is much stronger, and happens to also form supercolonies.

[helldivers-2]

The Terminid Supercolony could not have been destroyed without the brave sacrifice of many, many Helldivers.

In their honor, this personalized memorandum has been issued to their designated next-of-kin.

We will always remember [Helldiver Name].