Insects are an incredibly complex group of life forms, with extraordinary diversity in body structures, behaviors, and ecological roles. They are the largest group of animals on Earth, encompassing over a million identified species—and it is believed that many more remain undiscovered. These tiny marvels inhabit numerous planets, and fortunately, their size rarely exceeds that of a human palm. Given their productivity and natural weaponry, it would be a catastrophe if insects were larger.
Take ants, for example: a single colony of less than 1,000 individuals, with a nest no larger than a small mound of dirt in a backyard, requires more than 5 grams of food daily. To meet this demand, they must forage across areas that can span several kilometers from their nest. Ant colonies are not picky eaters—they consume nectar, honeydew, fruit sugars, small insects, insect eggs, and even leaves. This means nearly every living thing in the world is a potential target for these tiny creatures that can be easily squashed with a finger.
For this reason, we should be thankful for their small size. The Creator seems to have designed the world's balance by making these creatures small enough not to pose an overwhelming threat to other living beings, especially humans. This demonstrates extraordinary wisdom and compassion. Unfortunately, this principle does not apply in Eukaryota World.
Eukaryota World is an immensely vast universe, comprising countless planets and trillions of habitable worlds. This universe belongs to the Science and Techno World, where supernatural powers are explained through the laws of physics. Although exceptions such as psychic abilities exist, they are exceedingly rare. However, civilizations that harness these psychic powers can transcend the speed of light and connect with other civilizations.
Psychic abilities in Eukaryota World refer to supernatural powers that allow individuals to connect with a different dimension known as the Mind Realm. The Mind Realm is a place where the thoughts of all conscious beings are interconnected. Psychics can draw energy from the Mind Realm to perform miracles in the physical world, such as telekinesis, clairvoyance, and telepathy.
When combined, these three abilities enable a psychic to locate nodes—connection points between two spaces in the universe. With the help of node amplifying machines, humans can create "spatial bridges" resembling wormholes to travel to places unreachable even at the speed of light.
The technological advancement of spatial bridge creation has allowed humans separated by galaxies, even nebulae, to connect with one another. However, this extraordinary achievement has not been free from humanity's egoistic desire to dominate—even over their own species. This ambition has sparked complex intergalactic wars, resulting in immense loss of life.
On the other hand, the exchange of culture, technology, and ideas among human civilizations accelerated the evolution of society. Alliance after alliance formed, and the once-boundless universe gradually became charted. Humanity’s awareness of the cosmos they inhabited grew profoundly. Generations of brilliant thinkers emerged, reshaping the laws and history that had long governed their understanding.
Humans no longer felt insignificant when gazing at the star-filled sky. Instead, they were filled with ambition to conquer a universe they believed was created for them. The conviction that the world belonged to humanity strengthened, and faith in God began to wane. Religions were abandoned, and the gods that had been worshipped for millennia were dismissed as mere illusions.
The existence of psychics became the cornerstone of civilization, with their status rising rapidly. The progress of a civilization was now measured by the number of Psychics born within it.
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However, every advancement comes with challenges. Alongside the benefits provided by Psychic’s powers, a terrifying threat emerged to shake humanity’s arrogance. The Mind Realm, thought to be an uninhabited space ripe for exploration, turned out to have long been dominated by another entity.
They were giant insects—perhaps a mistake in creation or a manifestation of divine justice sent to crush humanity’s hubris. They called themselves the Arachnoax.
The Arachnoax are a species of insects with an extraordinarily complex social structure, resembling that of ants or bees. However, their superiority lies in their collective intelligence, which is far superior than artificial intelligence.
At the heart of Arachnoax life is the Broodmother, the queen and biological mother of the entire colony. She possesses an extraordinary ability to connect the minds of all her offspring into an intricate psychic network, far surpassing any human technology. The Broodmother is not only the colony’s controller but also a being of exceptional intelligence, capable of calculations that outstrip any artificial intelligence humanity has ever or will ever create.
Moreover, the Broodmother’s psychic powers far surpass those of human psychics, making her the undisputed ruler of the Mind Realm. Through her power, the Broodmother established a psychic empire known as the Hivemind. This empire serves not only as the central command for the colony but also as a tool for discovering nodes to new worlds they can explore and conquer.
Despite her vast intelligence and calculative abilities, the Broodmother remains driven by her animalistic instincts. She is compelled to evolve and grow stronger. To achieve this, the colony requires a resource they call biomass, which they extract from the worlds they dominate.
Biomass is energy harvested from any organic matter—plants, animals, or intelligent organisms. If a colony of 1,000 ants living in a small nest requires all the food within a several-kilometer radius to survive, then the Arachnoax, with a population exceeding trillions, demand an amount of biomass far beyond what a single galaxy can supply.
To meet this immense demand, the Arachnoax deploy vast fleets known as Swarm Fleets. These fleets consist of colossal organic ships made of chitin and living tissue, capable of self-repair and adaptation to the harsh conditions of outer space. Equipped with faster-than-light travel capabilities, these ships roam the universe endlessly. Every planet they visit becomes a dead world, stripped of all organic life.
Yet, the Broodmother’s ambitions are insatiable. Using her psychic power, she employs the Mind Realm to locate new nodes—gateways to worlds rich in organic life. However, the Mind Realm is vast, and finding nodes that lead to inhabited worlds is a task far more daunting than searching for a needle in a haystack. Even so, psychic abilities in the Mind Realm are like candlelight in utter darkness. In this pitch-black domain, the Hivemind, the Broodmother's psychic empire, shines like a beacon.
This light allows the Broodmother to quickly locate other Broodmothers within the Mind Realm. Consequently, the primary target of one Arachnoax colony's expansion is often another Arachnoax colony. Despite being of the same species, there is no hesitation or mercy in the Broodmother’s drive to devour her rivals for greater evolution and power.
Battles between Broodmothers result in unimaginably devastating wars. These conflicts raged until every Broodmother in the Eukaryota World had been discovered and annihilated, leaving only the ten strongest Broodmothers. These ten are: Mraviji, Moirb, Maurr, Mier, Myre, Myra, Miere, Miera, Vamrah, and Mymrex.
These ten Broodmothers possess psychic abilities of equal strength and fleets of nearly identical power. As a result, a fragile balance was established—an equilibrium that caused inter-colony conflicts to stagnate into a stalemate for hundreds of thousands of years. None of them could overpower the others.
This deadlock ultimately pushed the ten Broodmothers to seek new paths forward. They resolved to focus their efforts on locating nodes leading to other worlds inhabited by intelligent life.
Although all Broodmothers in the Eukaryota World had been identified, the universe is vast. It remains highly likely that other intelligent species exist somewhere, waiting to be discovered—and consumed.