You awake after being transported through the fantasy magic of thread prompt to a brainjack that connects your collective /k/ heads to an alien swarm. The swarms had sent down an invading army of runny and bitey monstersthat ran at a chokepoints and got blown up at a thousand to one rates. This Hivemind that created the swam has decided to consult YOU /k/ on the creation of a better version of it's alien gribbly horde. What 'kinds' of monsters are useful basically? Your limitations are only that you should try to err on the side of sticking to what is physically possible to have exist irl or at least not literally have out and out superpowers baked into the design. Just as a point of reference you should err on the side of the Arachnids from the above imaged gif as being about the most exotic and fantastical of biology-as tech that you're going to be able to get away with.>You can spitball up up better a better fighting doctrine for your tryhard version of a space swarm then pic related right?
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>>97705851Well you need to (mission) kill humans. The best way to do that is toxins. You have lots to choose from, i reccomend digestive enzymes and peptase since you already have them for free just by being a carbon based life form. Now you need a small winged creature with hydroponic fangs, ideally opposed to penetrate textiles, that can seek body heat. Have a reproductive grub-phase and a terminal swarm phase triggered by a pheramone-signal bioform and you're basically there. You can have them lie dormant and saturate the entire biosphere with living toxic death zones. That should cover everything unless the humans start Landing entire dome habs and purging the entire biosphere, in which case you're fighting a cardachev scale civ with glorified insects so GG, go symbioticIf you can swing a mind controlling parasite maybe try that too, good odds some /d/egenerate takes you off world and you get two planets for the price of one
>>97705851 Taking over 'stuff', that isn't just consuming biomass even if it's done temporarily or by spontaneously arming themselves is just such a no- brainer method of bolstering a swarm's force. They would be well rewarded by having some bioforms on hand in the reserve for taking over vehicles and buildings. Drive a million fucking sandnigger Technical trucks up to the front with trailers carrying the big slow stompy ones. There can be little tinkerer guys who scavenge around a bit for weapons off bodies or vehicles to quickfix/hijack to be driven. There’s not actually anything but an intelligence gap and a bit of working hands that holds back any swarm of space bugs from taking over the convoys of trains and trucks, ferrying normal-ass artillery with shells for the front line guns that the swarm is itself using. If that is to grandiose then at leaset have littlescavanger tinkerbugs be going around taking grenades off corpses or dig up mines and replanting that stuff for on some defence. Why not have all the abandoned planes in the places they overrun get some bug pilots inside to 9/11 themselves at the nearest fortresses.
If every bug is linked to the hive mind, tiny earth insect sized spy bugs would be unstoppable. It would be so easy to get eyes and ears just about everywhere, and they'd all be disposable.Also loved the bugs tactics from the Starship Troopers and Armor books. Have a massive swarm seeded on a planet and waiting under a battlefield. Maybe about a fifth of the swarm are actually warriors. If workers and warriors look exactly the same, the workers can be both a meat should and distraction for humans while the actual warriors sneak through the swarm to deal a killing blow or get a shot off from an unseen angle.The chaos caused by a swarm of hundreds of thousands of bugs erupting from the ground direct beneath the feet of any human platoon would be pretty good too.
Focus on long range indirect fire, flyers swarms and burrowers, also the bugs being on the smaller side but still dangerous (think small-medium dog sized fast bugs with toxin darts and claws and hard bullet proof frontal chitin plates)Alternatively, just make tear-jerker movies for women about humans bad and bugs good and how bugs are necessary to pay the pensions of their aging population and then watch the humans collectively commit sudoku by bug.
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>>97705851They have a hive mind, so they fight with near perfect coordination, so their warrior bugs don't need powerful weapons since they use them with extremely coordinated tactics. This means arming their troops takes minimal resources, so they can focus their efforts on other areas to a greater degree, such as fortifications, weapons development, building more artillery-scale weapons, and making more ships.
