[GALACTIC MAP UPDATE – 4 DAYS AFTER BLACK THROAT'S DEATH]
LV-732: Full Hive Integration CompleteCore Terraforming: 93.1%Biomass Stored: 1,154,210Swarm Count: 38,200Hive Yautja: 14,800Total Planetary Control: 100%Status: Primary Hiveworld
Target Planet:Minaris-7
Distance: 0.6 Lightyears
Weyland Resource Colony – Abandoned 8 Years Ago
Temperature: High volcanic activity, unstable crust
Oxygen Level: 71% survivability
Known Threats: Hostile atmosphere, rogue mining drones
Orbiting red dwarf – unstable solar radiation
[FLESH CITADEL – CROWN LAUNCH PLATFORM]
The Spire cracked open again. Towering above the world, the Hive Crown—Mo's orbital fortress—glowed with new teeth and acidic thrusters.
Mo stood at the edge of the platform.Behind him, two Alpha Spearborn, five Throneborn, and Layra in full Hive Commander armor.
Her eyes gleamed.
Layra: "Minaris? Nothing but rock."
Mo: "Then let's see how rock tastes… when it bleeds."
[HIVE MALL – INTERPLANETARY STRIKE INITIATED]
Structures Built for Deployment:
Star-Skewer Pod Bay (Flesh-Lance Launchers) → 12,000 Biomass
Hive Seeder Clusters x3 (Spore Drop-Pods) → 6,000 Biomass
Deep Impact Leviathan Pod → 8,500 Biomass
Hive Crown Armament Update: Plasma-Mucus Cannon, Bone Fang Array → 5,000 Biomass
Units Loaded for Deployment:
3,000 Swarmlings (Flame-adapted)
600 Hive Yautja (6 Orders Represented)
12 Siege Burrowers
1 Hive Leviathan ("Karnyx II")
30 Echo-Stalkers
1 Hive Crown Command Node: Mo himself
Biomass Spent: 31,500Remaining: 1,122,710Gain Rate (LV-732): +19,200/hr
[LAUNCH SEQUENCE – HIVE CROWN ASCENSION II]
The Hive Crown roared.Flesh-vents shrieked.The Star-Skewer Pods ignited first, hurling through the upper atmosphere, glowing like hell comets.
Next came the Spore Drop-Pods, spinning, living things that screamed as they passed into space.
Finally—
The Hive Crown lifted, breaking from the gravity of LV-732, trailing miles of living cables and heat.
Mo's voice echoed through the Hiveworld one last time before silence:
"I leave not to flee… but to claim."
"Your King is off to seed the stars."
[INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL – 6 HOURS LATER]
The Hive Crown approached Minaris-7.Below: a red, broken world.
Magma lakes. Collapsed mining cities.A Weyland beacon still blinked from a ruined satellite:
[Signal Loop: STAY AWAY. MINARIS-7 IS A TOMB.]
Mo smiled.
"Not anymore."
[PLANETFALL – MINARIS-7]
Landing Zone Alpha: Volcanic Faultline, South HemisphereTime: 0300 Local Time – Ashstorm ConditionsStatus: Hive Crown Descended, Units Released
The first Swarmlings hit the surface—scorched, melted, but still functional. They burrowed immediately, carving Hive routes into lava rock.
Echo-Stalkers adapted instantly, fusing with obsidian shadows.
Trench-class Hive Yautja braved the heat in armor grown from thermo-reactive bone, their masks glowing with flame veins.
Layra (Hive comms): "No signs of resistance… yet."
Mo: "Something's always watching."
[MINARIS-7 SECRETS UNVEILED]
A swarm of Echo-Stalkers breached a collapsed mining dome—and found a vault still sealed, blinking with Weyland logos.
Inside: A.I. defense units, forgotten research, and dozens of hibernating Xenomorphs—modified to survive volcanic temperatures.
But something else stirred beneath…
A new synthetic signature.
Not Weyland.
A voice crackled to life.[ACTIVATING MINARIS SENTINEL PROTOCOL – "ZEUS INITIATIVE"]
"Protect the crucible."
"No organism leaves this planet again."
[ENEMY RESPONSE – AI DEFENSE SYSTEM ONLINE]
Sentinel Forces Detected:
4 Defense Mechs (Heavily armed walkers)
1 A.I. Core Entity – "ZEUS"
12 Flame-Born Xenomorphs (Heat-Adapted)
Orbital Minefield Activated
Planetwide Communication Block Attempted
[HIVE COUNTER-SIEGE – INITIATED]
Hive Response Deployed:
400 Hive Yautja – Apex Spearborn + Pulseweavers
20 Burrowers breach AI relay towers
1 Leviathan tunnels under Flame-Born nest
Swarmlings swarm mech legs, melt armor with acid jets
Layra enters the AI vault directly with 5 Echo-Stalkers
Battle lasted 7 hours.
The Flame-Borns tore dozens of Hive apart—until Karnyx II breached the dome, crushed two mechs with one slam, and consumed the Xenos in magma.
Layra faced ZEUS alone, disabling its thought-core by inserting Hive tendrils directly into its memory pool, mutating the system.
ZEUS died begging for meaning.
[PLANET STATUS – AFTER COMBAT]
Biome Coverage: 23.2% (First Seeding)AI Defense Systems: NeutralizedXenomorph Vaults: ReclaimedBiomass Gained (Recovered + Processed): +44,800Current Storage: 1,167,510
[MO'S THRONE – NEW PLANET, NEW HIVE]
Mo sat at the base of Mount Enhar, now renamed Hive Fang Alpha.
Around him, the first Minaris Hive Spires grew—twisting up from black rock like claws trying to grab the sky.
He looked to the stars again.
"This world breathes my blood now."
"I wonder…"
"How many more wait to kneel?"
Layra approached, carrying a severed mech head.
"There's another planet in-system."
"Green world. Uninhabited. Yet."
Mo: "Then we bleed it next."
[STATUS – POST-MINARIS CONQUEST]
Planetary Biome Conversion: 39.6%AI Systems: DeactivatedVaults Absorbed: 3Biomass Storage: 1,167,510Swarm Count: 40,300Hive Yautja Count: 15,200Gain Rate: +21,400/hr (due to volcanic accelerants)Spearclutch Womb 4: Under Construction
[HIVE CROWN – ORBIT ABOVE MINARIS-7]
The sky was cracked orange, ash swirling across the volcanic sea. From high orbit, Mo observed Verdantis.
A green jewel of jungle and cloud, orbiting a quiet blue dwarf. Breathable. Full of biomass.
And something else.
Layra (studying scans): "There's Hive matter on the surface. Not yours. Not Weyland."
"We've detected resonance."
"Queen-class."
Mo leaned forward in his throne of bones and wires.
"A rival."
He stood.
"Then let her test her crown."
[MISSION DESIGNATION: VERDANTIS STRIKE]
Launch Assets:
1 Hive Crown (Orbital Relay & Living Command Station)
2 Spore Swarms (Drop-Pods x6)
1 Star-Skewer Missile Cluster
10,000 Swarmlings (Gen 5, Forest-Class)
1,200 Hive Yautja (Seven Orders including Thornwalkers, Carrion Dancers)
4 Leviathan-class Siege Beasts
Layra (Psi-link Field Commander)
Biomass Committed: 52,000Remaining Biomass: 1,115,510
[PLANETFALL – VERDANTIS]
Verdantis was everything LV-732 was not.
Air wet with pollen.Mountains of moss and vines.Insects the size of dogs.Acidic fog curling through the trees.
And somewhere beneath the canopy…
A living Hive, unfamiliar, ancient, and breathing in Mo's direction.
[ENEMY HIVE – DESIGNATION: QUEEN MOR'ZHAL]
Hive Origin: UnknownXenomorph Type: Pre-Weyland PurestrainHive Age: Approx. 2,000 yearsStructure: Low growth, web-style tendrilsEgg output: Continuous. Hundreds detected.Pheromone Reach: 63% of northern continent
Mo's scouts found bio-stalk towers, soft and flesh-colored, pulsing with slow-warming blood.A different Hive philosophy:Where Mo's Hive grew like teeth, Mor'zhal's Hive nested.
But it moved.
And when Mo's spores landed…She woke.
Unknown Hive Signal Detected
"You are not children. You are not born. You are made.""We are not the same.""You are fire.""I am root."
[BATTLEFRONT: THE GREEN WAR]
Mo's Initial Advance:
6,000 Swarmlings
400 Hive Yautja
2 Leviathans
Layra leading Command Node
They stormed through the jungles, tearing vines apart, burning nests.
But Mor'zhal's Hive didn't send Drones.
It sent Forests.
Trees screamed.Roots struck like hammers.Xeno-Trees, evolved to weaponize camouflage, crushed Swarmlings under entire branches.
Carrion Dancers leapt through the canopy—only to vanish.Thornwalkers planted ambushes—only to find themselves already surrounded.
Mo watched from orbit.
"She's no brute. She's a strategist."
[TURNING POINT – LAYRA'S STRIKE]
Layra moved to the heart of the forest, taking a Strike Cyst Team of 200 elite Thornwalkers.
They burned their way to a spore lake, green and glowing, where Mor'zhal's drones bred in liquid birth pools.
Layra issued a command:
"No elegance. No honor."
"This is a purge."
They dropped nerve-acid bombs, flesh-crack grenades, and Hive poison.
Within minutes, over 1,000 of Mor'zhal's spawn melted back into the earth.
Layra: "You called yourself root."
"Then rot."
[MOR'ZHAL RESPONDS – ANCIENT QUEEN ENTERS BATTLE]
She rose from a canyon.
Taller than a Leviathan.Crowned in bark and bone.Six limbs.Eyes that glowed with genetic memory.
She carried no weapons.
She was the weapon.
Her scream split the air—and the Hive Crown heard it from orbit.
Mo (rising): "Now we burn her name."
[MO DESCENDS]
For the first time since Minaris, Mo entered combat himself.
His armor was reshaped from volcanic bone and lava-quenched plate.
He struck the earth like a meteor.
Mor'zhal roared.
Two apex Hives—one born of soil, the other of evolution—clashed in the ruins of trees older than humanity.
[FINAL FIGHT – MO VS. MOR'ZHAL]
She lashed with tendrils.He cut them with Hiveforged claws.
She released a pheromone blast that made his Swarmlings attack each other.He retaliated with a psychic scream—disrupting her entire hive flow.
She moved like a god of patience.
He moved like a god of war.
He broke her legs.
She bit through his arm.
He tore her chest open.
She stabbed him through the gut with a tail of thorns.
But in the end—
He grabbed her head.
And crushed it between his hands.
Mor'zhal: DeceasedEnemy Hive AbsorbedForest Hive DNA Acquired
Unlock: Rootling Xeno-Strain
Unlock: Camouflage Hive Fiber
Unlock: Spore-Nest Adaptive Wombs
Biomass Gained: +103,200New Total: 1,218,710
Biome Conversion: 67.4% (Verdantis)
[CLOSING SCENE – GREEN WORLD FADES]
Mo stood atop the great fallen Hive Tree, watching as the forest burned, twisted, and reformed into bone spires and hive-webs.
Layra limped to his side, acid wounds steaming.
Layra: "She fought for survival."
"We fight for dominance."
Mo nodded.
"And this is only the beginning."
He raised his claw to the sky.
The stars glowed red.
"There are still so many worlds."