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Description
Species: Keelhub - External designation derived from origin planet.
Species proper designation can only be expressed in pheromone release.
Description by nearest amalgam(s):
Humanoid form Honey Bee
Intelligence type:
Partial sentience at individual level
Swarm intelligence based capable of reaching super sentience levels at macro scale.
Unknown intellect limitations provided a large enough hive
Homeworld:
Keelhub
First planet of four, In orbit of Chandris, a K type dwarf star
Genders:
Binary sexual reproduction types.
Quinary genders through created gender spectrum caste system.
Cultural Notes:
The ‘Keelhub’ species for the most part would not qualify as a sentient on the individual level without the various cybernetic and genetic enhancements done to the worker caste. That being said, a single worker with a large group of drones and blanks does possess intelligence and self awareness at a level befitting a sentient species. Likewise those of the royal caste also possess self awareness at a similar level, and though the queens at their natural state when alone quite clearly pass the sentience and intelligence levels expected of an individual of space-faring technology level this is not as true of the princesses who are entirely driven by instinct until all other rivals are removed from their consideration.
Most dealing with the Keelhub will come through workers. Initially some Workers were engineered to possess vocal cords and a more standard humanoid facial structure. This being done primarily to communication liaisons with other species, as some hive related benefits were discovered the genetic information has slowly spread through the various castes, however some queens are still more natural than others.
The drones and blanks are purely mindless beings as individuals. Without a worker to coordinate they are all but lifeless husks. Technological innovation in pheromone storage allowed initial simple low level instructions to be carried out by these castes, but cybernetics have brought them up to borderline sentient, though they still rely on the cybernetic processors implanted at basic worker or higher levels for coordination.
To understand the Hub caste one must understand the system between Queens and Princesses. Princesses are born to their mother princess on the day she is to reach maturity. Under most circumstances a princess will only birth a single successor princess. This day is determined by pheromone signals from the queen as she nears the point her body has exhausted her ability to produce viable eggs.
In modern times since the planet of Keelhub has been consumed by a single planet spanning hive Princesses will gather at the palace of the current Queen the day after birthing their successor princess. Despite laying the first egg as a princess, the princess’ body will not yet have undergone puberty, the birth of her daughter triggering one of the initial stages. A princess will, through training, genetic augmentation, and other ‘purely organic’ manipulations be between ten and twenty times the size and weight of the warrior caste workers.
This is because, once all princesses on the planet have gathered, they will engage in ritual combat. This is a carryover from the days of smaller single hives where there can only be one queen. Unlike the early days the current system focuses on death by beheading as the size of the Keelhub hive requires multiple brood mothers to maintain population stability. Which leads us to the Hub caste.
Only one queen can rule the hive, but one queen cannot provide enough eggs to populate a planet. The beheaded princesses will be revived through cybermancy, as brainless hulks who undergo the same transformation into queendom as the victorious princess, but with their bodies regulated entirely through digital means to choose which offspring to produce.
Size:
The average drone weighs 40kg and stands 150cm
The average blank weighs 60kg and stands 170cm
The average civil worker weighs 80kg and stands 190cm
The average combat worker weighs 150kg and still stands 190cm
The average princess, in the past 5 generations, weighs 2500kg upon birthing her successor and stands 300cm tall.
The average for Queen and Hub (with data from the past 10 generations. Stands 14 Meters tall with a length of 45 meters due to thorax growth.On average their weight will be 200,000kg, excluding the thorax.
Additional footnotes:
Queens are the central focus of this hive species, but despite this they are surprisingly democratic in their matriarchy.
Princesses can influence the workers in their domain, and by extension there is prestige to be found for these workers when the young princess becomes a queen and relocates the capital back to her homeland.
Likewise the workers are influenced by the thoughts of the masses, as with the advent of cybernetic connections the drones, blanks, and lesser workers underneath a worker influence their thoughts though pheromone and digital communications routed through the worker tiers.
Business sense in the CEO level workers for regions leads them to try and build their princess stronger and faster than the rivals. For a short while this meant that the genetic enhancements given by a corporation had started to form a dynasty of a single queen’s family, this status became problematic due to genetic issues and ‘political unrest’ in the outer hives leading to the generation skip policy.
The generation skip policy is an honor enforced system where a chosen queen’s successor egg is put into stasis until the next queen has come into power. This ensures that for each generation the queen in power can not directly affect her daughter’s chance to the throne. There have been times when power seems to alternate between two lineages, but they rarely last more than three to four generations.
The princesses will spend their entire lives training, getting stronger, faster, and bigger, through any means available to them barring cybernetic enhancements. Queens are expected to remain pure, and thus any cybernetic enhancements to benefit their cognitive process must be limited to those implanted into the inner circle of workers. These workers often live through the lives of multiple generations of a princess’ lineage to ensure gained knowledge is passed from one generation to the next in full.
A princess will grow much larger and much more muscular than the strongest of workers. They often must train themselves to fight against heavy industrial machinery or mechanized warriors as their bodies are the toughest natural beings on the planet. The genetic engineering making their muscles out of naturally grown carbon fiber, and smooth and soft looking armor like skin forming on their bodies.
Some princesses are more humanoid than others, and as the thorax region does not grow in extreme until puberty. Thus some can still be considered ‘cute’ to humanoids in this phase of their life despite the excessive muscle enhancements.
There are two forms of puberty a young princess will reach. First maturity is mental and physical, where the body grows only based on improving strength and mental ability to maturity. This usually takes 15 local years, or 20 galactic standard years. The next is a more traditional puberty which rapidly increases the size of the young queen, further increasing her body’s strength and natural defenses. This in turn causing sexual maturity to develop her thorax region into a hill sized cavern capable of releasing 1000 mature unfertilized eggs per day.
One should not underestimate the strength of a queen’s body. She remains fully mobile despite carrying a thorax several times longer and heavier than her body. Likewise the improved ‘flesh armor’ she possesses can not only survive a nuclear detonation, but provide radiation shielding to anything in her thorax region as was demonstrated several generations previous during an extraterrestrial assault on Keelhub.
The ritual combat of the princesses is a sport that happens roughly once every 25 galactic standard years. It usually results in the destruction of the former queen’s palace which is considered a symbolic gesture of one empire failing to the next. An arena is set up with a 6 km diameter for viewers to watch as the various queens fight to the death completely unarmed and unclothed to ensure no queen is in any way using unnatural advantuages. Some consider this to be a ‘loli bloodsport’ as the princesses look like hulking young women, but others argue that they are at full maturity when they undertake this battle.
Competitors are allowed to attack any part of the other queen’s body externally barring the thorax, but breaking through the flesh is considered taboo, and if blood is drawn that queen by honor will be expected to immediately withdraw and forfeit her life at the end of the tournament.
The ritual ends when only one princess is left in the battle, and all rivals have been beheaded.
The rivals bodies will be rapidly gathered and cybernetically transitioned into members of the hub caste.
Exposure to the blood of other queens, potential or otherwise, in turn triggers the final puberty of a young queen. As such princesses are kept away from each other until this fated day of combat. A queen will rapidly convert tons of food into mass and fuel their growth into the Kaiju sized monstrosities that are adult queens. Likewise the pheromone release of this death of rivals and transition to queendom sends out a signal across the hive which causes the eggs of the successor princesses to begin their transition from egg to initial maturity.
Overall the species can best be described as loyal to the queen, who in turn is loyal to her subjects, as a symbiotic relationship exists where the queen is both ruling consciousness, and the sum of all other consciousnesses on her planet.
