* Subjects Added: Swarmsworn Human(1789)

* A human being that has been infected and altered by the Sovereign Swarm, instilled with the loyalty and capability to serve.

* Subjects Added: Infected Acolytes(13)

* A sapient being who is marked by faith to serve as a member of the clergy.

* Unit Type Discovered: Spiderling Engineer

* Spiderling Engineers are Arachnid Units dedicated to complex building tasks, they can lead teams of workers for this purpose and are smarter than most Units.

* Unit Type Discovered: Oceanic Crawler

* Oceanic Crawlers are mechanical insects designed for underwater exploration, gathering, and combat to a lesser extent.

* Subject Type Discovered: Elysian Flesh Mistress

* Elysian Flesh Mistresses are semi-insectile bio-mechanical horrors who live to twist skin, coax bones, and weave flesh. Their abilities are derived from the Adaptable Trait as well as the Reinforce Unit and Enlarge Unit Powers.

* Subject Type Discovered: Awakened Fungal-Floral Scarecrow

* Awakened Fungal-Floral Scarecrows are living Scarecrows animated by sacrificed insects serving as their muscles. They have abilities derived from Make Mah Field, Focus Growth, and Animate Scarecrows Powers.

Mar had spent hours adjusting to the new feeling of power that had cascaded through the Swarm and in that time the ecstasy of expanding it with so many new Subjects had further destabilized their mind. But eventually Mar could refocus on getting through all the other notifications that burned inside of their mind.

"Elysian...Flesh Mistress, why Elysian? That doesn't make sense based on the description"

They couldn't help but comment on that particular addition before going back to examining the other new ones, the Interface provided some text to help guide their understanding, but by focusing on the specific entry in question more information was parsed through their mind.

Like how said Flesh Mistresses could be incredibly useful as they could work to enhance and alter Units and Subjects alike, which might be more limited than what Mar could do themselves, but unlike Mar they weren't limited in how often they could alter lifeforms.

In time Mar would have to create these new Units and Subjects but they returned their attention to the last notifications that were bothering them and Mar smiled.

* Congratulations: Your new Title, The Thrall King of Hor, has expanded your natural Interface trait to give it new functionalities.

* Functionality Added: Settlement Management

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* Settlements are locations and areas with a dedicated Subject population attached to them. They can serve as population centers, military bases, research facilities, production centers, and resource processors. Settlements are defined by: Settlement Type, Buildings, and Resources. All Units and Subjects attached to a Settlement will create the Settlement Administrative Collective that deals with the day-to-day management of it.

* Settlement Type: Determines the overall focus of the Settlement, this will determine available Buildings and the Resources that will be prioritized. A Settlement can have its focus changed once and only once.

* Buildings: The specialized structures in the Settlement which serve as the bones, muscles, and organs of the entire organism. Buildings can only be built after Blueprints that the Swarm possesses and some might have other requirements aside from Resources.

* Resources: The nutrients and blood of the organism or the fuel for the machine. Resources come in these main forms: Energy, Biomass, Minerals, Currency, Faith, Ores, Manpower, and Dross. But within these main categories, there are several subtypes like rare minerals or specific forms of Currency.

Mar practically clapped their hands together as they processed the information from the notifications, well that was more than promising. For a time now they had wondered about the nature of establishing more permanent control over territory, establishing actual centers of control would be the best way to consolidate control. Hor would be the test case for this as they would work to dismantle the town and reshape it, but eventually, it was destined to be destroyed.

"Ysandra, you need to continue shaping the earth and make our way down to the caverns deep in the earth. We will provide you workers to begin proper excavation once we have reached a proper depth."

They casually ordered before Mar reached out to observe the newly converted humans in Hor, they were still writhing on the ground and recovering from the violence of the Infection process. Mar was going to have to get the Settlement Collective in order before they woke up.

However, there was one thing that Mar had to address before beginning that. Imbuing an Avatar, Mar could feel that the power would come with a significant cost in the terms of Fragments. Hundreds of thousands of Fragments and with them their Units to make a single individual. It seemed absurd to Mar to pay that kind of cost, but at the same time, the power had to exist for a reason.

When the enemy came the Sovereign Swarm would need a face to distract from the truth. Something to misdirect them away from their real plans, and with that the decision was simple. Mar reached out through the Swarm and touched the Juggernaut Spider, The Fallen God, and the Fungal Honey Bees Swarm.

"Imbue Avatar"