New Mod: The Hive

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"Another alien race with astral...."

The lower commanders have no astral per se, they are able to command and that's about it. The queens and the rogue males have developed their command abilities significantly as they have to control other commanders, and often from a distance. Because of this, they have developed other astral powers as well.

The rogue males also develop additional magic skills, as they have brains, are independant, live longer than the other post-larval forms, and already have rudimentary magical abilities in astral. Young rogue male is astral 1 random 1. Old rogue male is astral 1 random 2.

Commanders generate supply as 10X size. So a Small Brain post-larval form would generate 20 as it has a certain amount of mass for regurgitant of honey material. Workers constantly bring it anything organic (bodies, hay, grain, tree limbs) as they travel, and it constantly generates regurgitant that the workers eat. The workers are also eating meat etc. as they travel (the bodies of the slain foe, cows, dogs, anything). A Large Brain generates 30 supply, and a Queen generates 40 as she squelches, oozes, and clicks her regal way from province to province....

One thing to remember is that they aren't really insects--they are closer to insect than anything else in this universe though.