so the thing about ants ignoring eyespiders is true

until eyespiders attack in any way

so

that first hit has to count

to start i was working on some kind of insecticide or something

gave that up pretty quickly

wrong angle

why kill an ant

when you can

well i can't think of a good punchy little single word to describe what i'm doing to these things. berserk them. donk them up. if you get an eyespider equipped with a little chitindrill to inject a mixture

just an aside here to say that antbrain experiments were such a good idea

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i mean i don't got a good handle on these things yet

but i did figure out the

nope instantly bored by explanation

basically there's a thing in ant brains that makes them angry

i have concentrated this thing

so basically it goes like

eyespiders creep among ants. undetected. ninjabots.

eyespiders climb on ant heads. like little hats. so cute. so stealth.

eyespiders simultaneously inject antsgonuts toxin

ants go nuts

attack other ants

eyespiders find another ant

continue process

ends with a big brawl of insane ants biting each other

i mean it's not insect domination exactly but for now it's pretty good

btw even just as a bit of fun don't hook a dozen eyespider's feeds directly into your optic nerve all at once

seriously

just do not do that

anyway suburban antvasion halted for now

or at least turned into a pile of ant corpses

your move, ants

so that has let me get on with things i want to be doing. like. mostly just tinkering with eyespider designs but i wanted to do that so it definitely counts.

power plant drones reporting good things

waterfactory scrapbag squad report nothing

because they vortexed themselves + waterfactory + creepy watertunnels beneath

camdrone following them sent some pictures

pretty big hole where the factory used to be

like a big gross muddy lake

not exactly feeling great about this solution but

oh

well