[h1]Bugs[/h1] [hider=The Bugs] [code] Organization Sheet — Organization Name/Emblem — > Rough Translation:: “Hydrogen Group” > Group Symbology:: “A hydrogen atom, below which is four vertical lines.” — Affiliation — > Rough Translation:: “Group Over Group” > Group Symbology:: “Four vertical lines above a horizontal line.” — Leadership — > Rough Translation:: “Queens Hostage Council” > Group Symbology:: “Four vertical lines with a gash horizontal on the shape. It has a circle around it.” — Military/Civilian Assets — Budget:: > ~100,000+(7(10))X, Laborers. * X = “Days Program Active” * 7 = “Breeding Females On Program” * 10 = Maturing Laborers/Day > Food supply, laborer lodging maintained by Group Over Group. > Materials harvested by Hill Groups, provided at no cost. > Training provided by Pack Groups, provided at cost of laborers/day = -100. — History — > Established 15 years ago following the discovery of the Gate at the edge of the solar system, the Hydrogen Group is the only purely scientific multinational organization maintained after the resource war that occurred thirty years ago. The Hydrogen Group has since acquired huge political power through the introduction of new Queens into the Queens Hostage Council. > Five years into its foundation the Hydrogen Group was able to argue for control of weapons, and expanded its research areas into the development of new weapons valid in a vacuum. Using the plasma based weapons found on the corpses on the derelicts near the gate, and the weapons of the derelicts themselves, they began producing, “Ring Group Killing Toolset.” This product line would result in the hegemony of the Group Over Group, which used the weapons to subjugate the groups that had not yet affiliated with the world government. — Characters — > “The Lost Eighteen”:: The young breeding female, colloquially a Queen, her two drones, and fifteen freshly matured worker females. When the Group Over Group confirmed their mission, they were ecstatic. Now that they’re adrift in space in a retrofitted xeno vessel, they have no idea how to proceed. For lack of a speakable name, Laurie, has begun to lay eggs in jerry rigged nest cells created using the remains of cardboard boxes. Certainly not the woodpulp bioconstruction of her home nest, but better than nothing. > “Laurie”:: The breeding female leading the exploration project making use of the jump gate. At age five she began working as one of the research leads, ten years after the creation of the Hydrogen Group. This was an advancement from her prior position as a student, training at a school that had been established by the Hydrogen Group to train xenobiologists, engineers, pilots, and physicists for just such a mission. Her performance as well as her quickness to bond with the two drones that she studied with made her the first choice to send on the operation. > “Franklin”:: A mature drone male, aged eight. He has studied the xeno derelicts carefully, and is pretty sure he can keep one running as long as he has access to similar enough tools as used by them. He is also a rather capable pilot. He spent his early years doing as most drones do: serving the local government in the nests. > “Benjamin”:: A younger male drone, aged three. While his studies were focused in the field of physics, he prefers writing short parables about how best to live in society. His mother was actively close to him, and unlike most breeding females did not neglect the individuals in her brood. Her encouragements and styles have made him rather popular as a director of labor. Nation Sheet — Nation Name/Flag — > “Group Over Group” > The symbol for, “Group Over Group,” as written using the mandibles and frontmost limbs. It is four vertical lines adjacent to each other, with a single horizontal line below it. The four vertical lines are the most simple symbol in the written language, and is the name they use to recognize themselves. Its closest translation is simply, “Group.” — Government Type — > Anarcho Communal Hegemony:: For most of their history, the Group have lived in chaotic communes operated by group necessity and a reliance on each individual to create a happy collective. It is only in more recent years, after a major conflict between the three largest communes and the establishment of the Hydrogen Group as the first interplanetary commune, that the Groups have begun to seek leaders and representatives. There are simply too many chemicals in the air for every voice to be heard. > Major communes in the Group Over Group are:: “Hill Groups”, “Flat Across Groups”, and, “Many Crossed Groups”. — Demographics — > “Group” , 100% of 32.4 billion > The species has no formal manner of reference for a single member of the species, and they have very little concept of an individual that has no group. Without a group you cannot function. So henceforth, members of The Group. > General Physiology:: Members of The Group are physically similar to Wasps, with metallic green stripes over a black body. Chitinous wings allow them limited flight in Earth gravity, but are far more useful on lower mass planets and planetoids. The largest, breeding females and drones, get to be about the size of a hog. Most, the workers, don’t get much bigger than a large dog. > The Stinger:: All of them possess ferrous stingers that can be used to inject a paralysis and psychosis inducing neurotoxin that most greatly impacts mammals and other insectoids. As all members of The Group possess stingers, very rarely is there an actual military career path. When something is stung, pheromones released into the air send the population into a rage, and they seek out threats to sting, leaving little formalized military. > Mental Abilities:: Due to a briefer lifespan and a generally more obsessive mental state, individuals in The Group tend to learn much faster than do humanoids. At month nine they are physically mature, and at ten years of age they are considered old. — Leadership — > Anarchic Communal System:: The strongest pheromone gland wins. — Economy — > Localised groups produce goods and services and then provide those goods and services to a communal resource pool from which things can be collected. Due to the rarity of conflict between individuals and the priority of the group in culture and biology, this tends to go well. They are not yet an intersolar society, and so do not produce for sale in the markets of other groups. — Military — > See, “Demographics.” — History — The Group Over Group was founded after a resource war that occurred thirty years prior to today. The three largest communes, predecessors to their modern equivalents, warred over access to fossil fuels. The war ended only when a small coalition developed nuclear fusion technology and executed the queens responsible for the excessive reliance on fossil fuels. The modern communes were established and formed the Group Over Group, to ensure all are managed and peaceful relations are maintained into the future. [/code] [/hider]