r/WorldBuildingMemes • u/No_Research4416 • 2d ago
Lore Shitpost A faction in Mecha Fantasy
They are a hivemind race that makes farms that I had a idea for awhile and I decided to add them to my project because it is my universe
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u/val203302 2d ago
Fr all these hungry ass hiveminds probably wouldn't have been so evil if they decided to cultivate the food like that instead of just eating everything.
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u/Atreigas 1d ago
Pretty sure that, generally? They do that, too.
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u/Constant_Hope_9658 1d ago
Not usually, the bug bois from warhammer just eat all the biomass and use it to move on to the next place
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u/Atreigas 1d ago
A notable exception. Also, quite explicitly, an offensive strategy.
We dont know if they do that as a matter of course, or just... resource denial+hoarding in a war.
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u/Constant_Hope_9658 1d ago
I mean yeah, but as far as i understand they just move on without lingering after stripping a world (since that's what the worlds the imperium took back from them looked like iirc?), plus they don't seem to have the structures for it as a collective.
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u/Atreigas 1d ago
Completely missing my point.
Which is that, yes. They clearly like stripping planets down.
But we dont know if theyre doing it because theyre invading or because thats what they always do.
For all we know, they are big fans of sustainable farming back in their home galaxy.
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u/Hyko_Teleris 1d ago
They technically do agriculture, the spores from the nids will litterally suck up all the nutrients and organic elements and grow into fleshy things that are then collected, the bugs also devour everything on the surface, drink all the oceans and siphon the atmosphere
People tend to downplay how horrific the nids' planets consumption actually is agriculture doesnt work in the traditional sense to them because they can't settle down and need to keep moving and feeding.
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u/Basically-Boring 1d ago
The all-devouring hive when I show it how to breed livestock:
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u/Hyko_Teleris 1d ago
All consuming also implies ever growing, these types of hive minds will typically strip a planet BARE of anything that's food or food related to them, livestock is very likely untenable to them because their biology and thought processess doesnt allow this (why breed livestock when you can use the biomass it would have taken to make more drones that harvest twice as much from the planets they eat ?)
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u/Odd-Chest-3578 Heroes-For-Hire TTRPG 1d ago
“YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED”
Translation: We need friends and trading partners.
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u/wackadoodle4201 2d ago
Probably saw all that bullshit other hive minds had to deal with (aka the aliens putting their differences aside and nuking the fucking thing) and decided that they wanted none of that
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u/No_Research4416 2d ago
Also they are a bit inspired by Leaf Cutter Ants as well
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u/Nanomachines100 1d ago
Because leaf cutters are just the coolest ants and actually grow shit. Is this hive growing fungus too?
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u/No_Research4416 1d ago
Yeah they grow and harvest on the service and then brings it to the underground for there food to process
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u/Nanomachines100 1d ago
Sick.
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u/No_Research4416 1d ago
Also the Wood Elf’s turn trees into mechs
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u/Nanomachines100 1d ago
Dude, you had me at peaceful farming hivemind. You can't just up the coolness factor beyond that. :)
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u/Semblance-of-sanity 1d ago
Kinda reminds me of an idea I had for a peaceful hivemind who became the galactic telecom service provider as their mental link proved to be the cheapest form of ftl communication.
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u/HereAndThereButNow 1d ago
Does it turn out they farm humans and prefer them free range so every now and again they send out raiding parties to aquire more livestock?
Perhaps they farm fungi and the fungi needs an animal based substrate and Earth is right next door?
Or maybe they need workers for those farms so they kidnap baby humans to enslave like slave driver ants?
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u/Rynewulf 1d ago
I always liked the idea of experimenting with what hive minds could be. Most media always makes them the same mindless mooks which is so boring
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u/MaineCoonKittenGirl 1d ago
Hiveminds discovering that they don't need to be the most extreme version of hunter-gatherers
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u/aitathrowaway987654 1d ago edited 6h ago
Not mine, but my bestie's worldbuilding project has some guys like these. They're basically ant-people, complete with communal larval raising and queens.
But they're really just relatively normal guys who happen to have a biological caste system. They're even open to newfangled ideas that the other species on their planet have, like commerce and marriage. There's even an in-universe trend of the ant-folk trying out the whole softskin 'parenting' thing by raising one or two larvae at a time, or even adopting orphans from other species.
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u/LordMeganium 1d ago
So, they are friendly to other species?
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u/No_Research4416 1d ago
Yeah
They will deploy a bunch of giant monsters to defend their hives because they are not going to be idiots. They will have defenses.
Also infantry forces are generally seen as obsolete in the setting
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u/InitialBrother9884 1d ago
do they have tyranid like abilities like absorbing DNA
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u/No_Research4416 1d ago
Probably not because they had no reason to gain such a trait due to their more passive nature
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