Ooh! I've been waiting for you to make a post that referenced The Hive so that I'd have an excuse to ask a few of the zillions of questions that I've been wondering about it. I hope you don't mind my being excessively nosy, but this species/creature is FANTASTIC, and it tickles my imagination, and so my mind generates a whole bucket-load of "what if" situations, so I'm curious:
What happens if The Hive wants MORE bodies than it currently has? I mean, would two of its bodies go ahead and mate with each other, or produce a type of eggs, or would they create them through some non-traditional fashion? And on a similar note, do the individual bodies die of old age and need a steady stream of replacements (much like cells constantly dying off and growing anew), or would The Hive only create new bodies if something catastrophic happened? I'm also fascinated if you've given any thought to how this creature evolved.
I understand if answering any of this would give away pieces of information that you'd rather keep to yourself for now, and I don't mean to distract you from your current line of thoughts, so feel free to ignore any/all, if you'd rather. I'm just a mad fan of The Hive, and I can't help but ponder the implications of the species. /fangirl behavior
(Side note: I personally think that some modification on the phrase "cluster of hives" would work well for a group of its bodies; perhaps playing with the word "hive", to have something along the lines of "hivelets".)
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What happens if The Hive wants MORE bodies than it currently has? I mean, would two of its bodies go ahead and mate with each other, or produce a type of eggs, or would they create them through some non-traditional fashion? And on a similar note, do the individual bodies die of old age and need a steady stream of replacements (much like cells constantly dying off and growing anew), or would The Hive only create new bodies if something catastrophic happened? I'm also fascinated if you've given any thought to how this creature evolved.
I understand if answering any of this would give away pieces of information that you'd rather keep to yourself for now, and I don't mean to distract you from your current line of thoughts, so feel free to ignore any/all, if you'd rather. I'm just a mad fan of The Hive, and I can't help but ponder the implications of the species. /fangirl behavior
(Side note: I personally think that some modification on the phrase "cluster of hives" would work well for a group of its bodies; perhaps playing with the word "hive", to have something along the lines of "hivelets".)