Leonitus

Population as of 16,056 AQA

Tsvìets: females- 502,093; males- 31

Female MNRs- 402,383; Male MNRs- 23

Female PRMs- 99,709; Male PRMs- 8

Royal- 1

Combat ready: females- 439,030 males-29
Hunters (of the number above)- 4,220

Tsvìets in 1^st Expansion Armada- 1,309

Note: Those who are not warriors/soldiers are either researchers, engineers, pregnant or nursing mothers, and children not graduated from Path of War yet.

C.T.s: 503,283,000

Drones:
Combat (Support: pilots, drivers, etc.; Direct: infantry)- 303,384,939,000; MSVs- 23,300
Labor- 1,000,203,880,303 
Medical- 1,348,020

Basic combat ship dimensions:
Devastator/Heavy Destroyer roles - Length/Width/Height: 3 km, 218.19 meters (2 miles)/900 meters/500 meters
Hunter/Heavy Cruiser roles - L/W/H: 5 km, 632.7 meters/1 km, 350 meters/750 meters
PRM/Dreadnought-Carrier hybrid - L/W/H: 22 km, 530.8 meters/5 km, 400 meters/3 km, 000 meters
Mother/Support-role Carrier roles - L/W/H: 112 km 654 meters/27 km, 000 meters/15 km, 000 meters

Current time: 16,069 AQA
(13 year time span)

Tsvìet Origins: First Crusade Era. The Second Contact, system Aureis ('our'-'resin') pt.1, "The Caanis"

Time was a precious commodity for those of the crusading fleets. They were the first of their kind to venture beyond the star and planets they've known for so long. Many left behind children just growing into young adults, lovers who've spent long years by their bedside, friends who grew up and laughed and wept beside them through all of their happy and trying times, etc. This was not an easy choice to make for many of the Tsvìets onboard the craft. The saddest cases were perhaps those who were leaving behind nothing but the influence they might have made amongst their peers.

For the last 13 years, the Tsvìets could do naught but train, formulate strategies for whatever kind of enemies they may face, and comfort each other in case a feeling of homesickness was rearing its ugly head. Many days were passed at a single time by sleeping and conserving food and energy after training sessions. Other days included singing folk songs in gentle choirs. The Tsvìet tongue sounded like crystal bells and soft, whistling winds when they talked, so a choir would sound most closely to wind chimes on a breezy day with few noticeable pronunciations of alien words.
It was a soothing atmosphere for the listeners, whether they be Tsvìets, A.I. drones, or C.T. synthetics.

As for war preparations, while most of the armaments and MSVs were built and stored, it didn't hurt to build more or something new according to whatever information they received from the still-broadcasting satellites in the systems ahead. The seven fleets of Crusader Fleet group 'ANURAI' had just crossed the edge of the solar system with the blue star and two planets, the system sitting six light years away from their own.

The planets were about three times the distance from their star as the Tsvìets' own homeworld was from their sun. The sun was smaller, meaning it was hotter than their star as well, so the distance made for foreign atmospheres to the Tsvìets. The planets weren't as hot as on their homeworld but it was well above 110 degrees Fahrenheit on an average day. 

The stealth satellites couldn't get any closer than 300,000 miles to either planet without risking being spotted by the unknown ships' sensors. It wouldn't make much difference any as it was very hard to not detect 1,680 Devastator-class Destroyers, 1,260 Hunter-class Cruisers, 35 PRM-class DreadCarriers, and 70 Mother-class Carriers approaching with four million miles of your planet, especially for an obviously space faring species.

The reaction response was quite impressive as hundreds of ships as large as Hunter-class were launching off of the surface of the two planets and heading straight towards them within thirty minutes, though half of them would arrive hours after the ships from the near planet met the intruders.

To the Tsvìets and C.T.s, it was kind of funny how this species' ships looked even more robust then their own. The Tsvìets didn't really care about aesthetics and that only encouraged the pragmatic HUKE to design all of their ships with function over form. Many species who considered themselves 'civilized' would remark that the Tsvìets' ships looked like various shapes of vaguely giant creatures with trailing limbs and a gaping maw. 

This strange species before them...their ships quite literally looked like giant chunks of pinkish gems with a blue interior. They didn't shine brightly or anything but rather looked like a hunk that was just dug from the ground and hosed with water. There were parts branching in all directions from the center and they glowed in a pulsating manner. The average size dimensions couldn't be calculated in the usual manner but the shapes were generally around seven kilometers in width and height.

There didn’t seem to be any visible propulsion systems onboard but the sensors did detect anomalous energy fluctuations all around the ships and a thin arm of it branching out thirty standard Earth miles ahead of each one’s travel path.

The two forces came within 100,000 miles of each other before the Grand Primal (equivalent to Fleet Admiral) of the Tsvìet and C.T. forces ordered a full stop which was copied by the unknowns. The Queen had made the decision long ago to try their hand at nonviolent negotiations first unless something truly warranted war against an alien force they knew nothing about.

So, a single Devastator-class was sent out to act as a proxy while sending out a repeating message in the BOolrk language explaining that they know no other alien language after fighting the BOolrk out of their space. Really, the Tsvìets were forced to rely a lot on this method since the BOolrk might have had contact with these aliens directly or indirectly through another hive fleet as the Queen knew through the Blading of the first Hive Mind that it hasn’t had any interaction with this new species. The second Hive Mind might have known since it was within their solar system for decades but it was crushed and blown seven ways to Hell with no recoverable body samples- a tough but necessary loss given the circumstances.

The lone Devastator sat out there just 50,000 miles between the two forces until there was finally a response from the alien fleet.

It came in the form of one of the arms of the closest crystal ship glowing brightly before a massive energy blast that looked like pure fire exploded from it to tear across the distance in but a couple of seconds. The Devastator had no chance of dodging such a surprise attack even though the crew was in readied conditions. The entire ship was engulfed in the attack and their allies could only watch helplessly as a fine example of the backbone of their space Navy crumbled into dust within the fire.

Even worse, the attack had kept on going and even tore into the formations of the armada, annihilating three more ships as it tore out the back of the formation.

The response from the visitors would have been easiest described as apocalyptic as hundreds of thousands of laser and plasma batteries took aim at the single ship and unleashed their built up fury. Advanced computers noted how the crystal ship took over hundreds of blasts with no effect before the sheer number of the attacks impacted within seconds of each other. Strangely enough, the crystal structure seemed to crack along its body before erupting from the inside.

Broadcasting on all open channels, the Tsvìets’ earth rattling war chants and thundering drums brought the entire species into a controlled blood rage that boiled their blood and could only escape momentarily through the chants of battle.

All Devastators sped ahead at full speeds, splitting into different directions towards the enemy to avoid having multiple ships destroyed from a single blast again.

Hunter cruisers strode behind the Devastator metal shields while they acted in a similar role for the PRM DreadCarriers that stayed to bombard the enemy with their bigger guns and act as a shield for the Mother-class Carriers that were ordered to keep out of the attack in the case enemy reinforcements arrived.

The space between the charging fleets and the crystal ships became a blinding light show of lasers, plasma bolts and pure energy blasts with a dozen Tsvìet ships annihilated for every one enemy destroyed. In just the opening minutes, just over a quarter of the Devastator shield had been vaporized with casualties among the Hunter cruisers in the dozens while only a few dozen of the enemy were destroyed.

When they arrived at their predetermined distance from the enemy formations, the Devastators started flying up and down the x-axis plane (vertically instead of just horizontal) and charged at the enemies that were below or above them that had been focused on the Devastators in front of them. Before the crystals could take advantage of the broadside targets, they were now face to face with the heavier Hunter cruisers who could now utilize the full array of heavy weaponry not found on the destroyers.

Macro lasers batteries the size of World War II IJN ‘Yamato’ class battleships opened fire in their thousands from the hundreds of heavy cruisers, their red beams searing into the mineral looking surfaces of the crystal ships. Along with the Devastators before where it took hundreds of shots, the heavier cannons of the heavy cruisers needed only about a dozen to rupture entire arms of the strange ships. The Hunter-classes now became the main targets though the enemy was not defenseless against the flanking Devastators as the arms that were not pointing towards the Hunters but above and below them were capable of firing similar but smaller blasts of energy. Instead of the 1:3 ratios of shots to kills, it was now reversed for these weaker attacks. Though the number of arms and their rate of fire made it a killing field for the open Devastators, they pushed through the defenses and were able to maneuver within the expanses of space between each crystal ship.

This revealed a flaw in their defenses as the crystals wouldn’t fire their main weapons if there was a crystal in the line of fire.  This was only revealed when a Devastator firing on a crystal to its starboard side saw that another was about to fire its weapon. Knowing they wouldn’t survive the blast, the C.T. Primal of the ship maneuvered the vessel to put their initial target right behind them in the hopes of causing some friendly fire. To their surprise, the crystal that had them dead to rights simply kept the charge and waited for them to clear away from its ally. This information was passed along quickly and the Grand Primal ordered her ships to do something crazy in the eyes of ‘civilized’ species, namely to travel close enough to initiate boarding actions and if not, to use their weapon batteries literally with mortar range of the enemy if they had to.

The initial minutes of the plan gained them some success as the crystals couldn’t really fire on the ships without damage themselves but the Tsvìets’ Devastators showed no hesitation in blowing chunks out of the enemy that shot their efforts for nonviolence.

Boarding operations were met with some strange obstacles, one being that there wasn’t an interior of the crystals that was navigable like the insides of their own vessels. It was like an energy stream underneath the thick skin of the ship. Initial boarders who drilled in or flew into the wounds of the crystals were atomized by the energy current. This information prevented others after them from suffering the same fate. Instead, they stuck to demolition operations along the arms as the energy that flowed out meant the ships were suffering a literal fuel leak and would lose power overtime.

The crystals had some semblance of realization and from hundreds of spot along the arms, thousands of beings vaguely in the shape of a humanoid but made out of pink energy simply transitioned into their reality. Their melee and ranged weaponry was a simple part of themselves and were quite deadly yet their bodies, for all their nimbleness, were capable of being killed by the energy weapons of the C.T.s’ soldiers.

It was on one ship where such a battle had been ongoing that the crystal simply went into a sort of coma after so much damage had been done and so many energy soldiers had been defeated. Putting together details of the ship’s internal nature, the energy absorption and the weaponry, the C.T.s deduced that the soldiers and crew were part of the ship’s energy as semi-sentient extensions of itself. Whether this meant the ship was a simple physical shell for the energy that was sentient or the mass of energy was a conglomeration of the energy species themselves was unknown.

This discovery would turn the tide of the battle for the Tsvìets and C.T.s. Boarding craft in their thousands would launch themselves under the cover of support fire and fighter swarms. Keeping themselves spread out, they took minimal losses from the point defense weapons that were only as numerous as the arms of the ships. A ship with only a dozen arms meant that it only had a dozen weapon points to attack with, meaning a buzzing swarm of small, fast attack craft moving erratically was a nightmare scenario for them to fight against.

Once on the ships’ arms, demolition crews would immediately begin operations to blow chunks out of the surfaces in order to cause leaks. In turn, the crystals would materialize soldiers to eliminate the threats, playing into the hands of the Tsvìets who were well experienced in ground warfare and were decked out in strong Zero-G combat frames with heavy weaponry meant to cause as much damage as possible. It’s not to say fighting was costly for just the crystal ships as the energy constructed soldiers’ weapons made most forms of armor pointless, forcing the Tsvìets, A.I.s and C.T.s to constantly be moving. Due to the nature of the enemies and how they could simply materialize around and within the Tsvìets’ formations, heavy and slow assets were kept off the arms to attack them from some distance, leaving it to just the quicker troops who were loaded for close-ranged warfare.

This new strategy took a full three days as the Tsvìets’ ships used any comatose crystal ships as semi-living shields to move a Hunter-heavy cruiser in close and swarm their designated target with hundreds of attack and boarding craft while the Devastators pulled back to keep watch around the debris fields of their fallen ships.

The crystal ships had no concept of retreat as they fought until the last one went dormant. To keep the ships dormant instead of dead, the holes in their surfaces were covered with welded armor plates until the energy could be studied and Bladed if possible. It’d do them a lot of good to learn of this new foe and prevent huge losses like they did in this battle.

Out of the 1,680 Devastators, only 708 were unharmed with another 183 damaged but in fighting condition. The rest…were now space dust. Of the 1,260 Hunters, 253 were destroyed and another 39 damaged; 5 of them not fit for battle without major repairs. The destroyed ships weren’t as bad as the Devastators but still, having half of your superstructure vaporized wasn’t exactly heartwarming either. Thankfully, the PRM and Mothers stayed out of the close quarter battle. Yes, their huge compliments of fighter crafts and boarders would have made the process go by quicker had the winning strategy implemented them but their huge sizes would have made them prime targets for the enemy and had the crafts been sent out from the distance their carrier ships sat from the fight, they’d have left the Mothers defenseless had enemy reinforcements arrived near them.

Still, this was a very costly victory. Yes, their ignorance was to blame for the loss of tens of millions of A.I. drones and C.T.s and a few dozen Tsvìets but they didn’t have a choice. They were individually outgunned by a hilarious degree like nothing they had wanted to be possible. Thankfully, the collected battle data would help extensively in countering this new threat if more were just as hostile but they could not afford such losses again. 

There was no time to return to their home system to turn in the comatose ships to study and possibly blade. By their calculations, the other fleets would be arriving at their designated star systems within a couple of years at the latest. By the time this fleet had licked their wounds and left to try to catch up with the nearest fleet to aid them, they'd only arrive less than a year after they'd make contact with their systems own inhabitants of these crystal ships. The best they could do is secure the system and prisoners while sending a light speed message to them. It'd take a year at the least to reach the other two fleet groups but with the critical information, they might just suffer much less than the ANURAI Crusader fleet did.

For now, critical supply stations and fortifications would begin construction underneath the surface of the planets. While they would be sitting ducks for orbiting crystals ships, evidence of crystal formations on the planet suggested it was of some value to them and perhaps they'd not risk rupturing the planet. These sites were investigated and overtaken when the crystal rocks proved to be of the same nature as their ships when they glowed and spawned hundreds of energy guardians. This time, the Tsvìets were fighting on more comfortable terrain and their physical capabilities were able to overcome the reaction speeds of the energy soldiers, allowing the flesh and armored aliens to close the distance and slaughter the energy-based aliens.

The second reason was that the biological crews on the remaining ships were in need of stretching their legs. Seeing as how vulnerable their ships are to the massive energy blasts of the crystal ships, many felt it'd be a moot point to keep them onboard for safety reasons when a Devastator could get one-shotted along with the three Devastators behind it. At the least bit, the new species might not fire on the planets they had interests in.

It was three months later that ANURAI received confirmation that their warning and battle data had been acquired by the Crusading fleet groups of STHL (Stahl) and OTRCH (Outreach). They agreed to slow their sub-light engines to drifting speed so as to make modifications to their armaments and loadouts.

They would ferry over much of their land based equipment from the Devastators and Hunters to the Mothers so that they can create more hangars and silos before filling them with craft and missiles from the Mothers and PRMs. It was a complete reversal of roles in some cases but the Mothers and PRMs were much too valuable to risk at this point in time. Devastators and Hunters could be repaired and even built within the massive hangars of the Mothers and the supply fleets within each crusading group had enough refined materials to create half a fleet of Devastators.

The changes would take months to complete with the A.I. drones working nonstop around the clock while Tsvìets and C.T.s went over the gained battle data and ran simulations and battle drills dozens of times within each day until they achieved a simulated victory that wouldn't be as pyrrhic as the ANURAI suffered. The fleets modified the missiles and secondary weapon cannons to cause as much blunt force or piercing damage as possible. The data showed that the enemy ships could absorb much of the energy from their main cannons to fuel their own return attacks but it was discovered that the more energy a ship consumed, the more brittle its crystalline structure became.

The new plan was to launch the modified missiles that were in all honesty metal spears with scram jets on the bottom of them. These missiles would be fired in the tens of thousands to occupy the crystal ship's defensive efforts enough for the main weapons of the warships to attack. Upon absorbing much of the energy as the crystal ships could, those that didn't shatter from the draining would be pelted by missiles and cannon shells meant to shatter their arms from them or to just puncture enough holes in their superstructures to force them into a comatose state. This would decrease the necessity of the dangerous boarding and zero-g operations but if not that, it'd help the boarders' jobs in causing enough damage to shut the ship down.

Once the preparations were complete, they once again began their sub-light journey to meet the new enemy. Unlike before, a long range shuttle would be sent to parlay for peace while the fleet would stay much further back and hopefully out of sight in case of a hostile response. Many in the fleets were eager for a battle to repay these energy beings for the loss of so many friends and fellow soldiers but the primals were hoping to avoid the conflict if possible. 

Over the one to two year course of the fleets' renewed journey to meet their unknown fates, the ANURAI fleets were getting dug in deep into the crust and mantle of the two planets, discovering an abundance of minerals nearly of the quality as those found on Cradle of Life. Many felt it had to do with the heavy gravity of the planet as well as the gravity and heat of the super-giant blue star. These minerals were excellent energy stores and scientists believe the energy beings were creating their vessels out of these stones which would explain their presence on the lifeless planet.

Studies and experiments had began with merging these crystals with combat platforms to discover any uses for them. Upon first merger, the results were both a success and a failure. These crystals drained the energy right out of the combat droids so a new set of experiments were crystal energized to near breaking point and stuff into the droids. This time the droids were operational and showed only the usually estimated drain on the crystals as would have been on their original energy cores. The change in this relationship was like that of gas or heat. The two merged objects would coexist in a state of equilibrium. The droid would always be able to draw on the crystal's energy to improve its power and performance as long as the crystal could draw on energy from an outside source like the droid or a battery pack or power cable to replenish itself.

The military analysts and scientists both agreed that unless this function could be made into a one-way drain for the benefit of the droid, then these crystals were no better than a tag along that would take from you whatever you took from it. They could also be used as explosives but until further breakthroughs were made, they would see very little use in their military on a small scale level.

This breakthrough came when one group of scientists appropriated a Devastator warship to use a few of the more massive crystals samples to hybridize a macro-thermal kinetic cannon. The ship was kept plenty far away from the others for this experiment as it underwent modifications. Once weapon systems were activated, most power in the ship around those cannons were drained dry and the crystals began forcefully drawing from the engine cores themselves until it reached maximum capacity.

Despite the unforeseen reaction that was very obvious in hindsight, the ship's cores weren't at all drained and power was quick to be rerouted to return to the darken zones. Since the crystals in the cannons were full, they didn't drain the surrounding areas again. With that situation over with along with a dozen memos to develop power switches in the lines to prevent such a forceful drain again, the hybrid cannon's power was unleashed upon an asteroid field. The result was a very familiar beam of thermal kinetic energy that was too raw and wild to be focused into something like a laser but it did show a destructive capacity similar to the crystal ships' own main weaponry. Dozens of asteroids were boiled and vaporized in seconds. The blast was so wild that due to ignorance in design, the hybrid cannons suffered many energy blow backs along the energy coils which caused numerous explosions along the cannons' very structures.

The project was immediately jumped on by as many C.T.s and Tsvìets as it could bear while maintaining organization. It was the 'newest wave' through the science divisions of theoretical research and theoretical application into constructive uses such as more robust cannons capable of handling the strain of the weapon repeatedly as well as thermal energy drills for asteroid or planetary mining. What they didn't know was that they'd made a weapon completely different in nature than the imitated. It'd be many decades later before they would finally understand that the crystal ships' energy attacks weren't destroying on a usual overpowering and explosive level as they'd thought but rather turning physical space and matter into quantum energy where then a fraction of the new energy would be absorbed back into the ships after a battle ended in their victory.

Another Devastator was appropriated by a branching group who lined large crystals into the hull of it but kept it isolated from any surrounding circuitry while having a single line with numerous power switches (or dams, if you want a metaphor) leading to the power cores of the ship. Once completed weeks after its refit, the ship was fired upon by a pair of Devastators with their macro-laser batteries. The experiment was a rough success as the empty crystals greedily absorbed all of the two salvos. Instead of stopping there in the design, the Tsvìets had the connection to the core established so that the energy captured by the crystals would be sucked into the cores to fulfill the power consumption of the energy weapons and theoretically, even the hybrid cannons. This way, the crystals could absorb a potentially limitless amount of energy based attacks as long as the cores were draining it and properly utilizing it, such as refilling the crystals of the hybrid cannons, the batteries of the other energy intensive weaponry, the engine reactors, or even just flat out venting the energy into open space. The energy system was almost as efficient as that of the crystal ships' systems but the only problem is having to redesign the ship to house these new features and weapons while making it strong enough to survive such a high intensity stress as well as make the system efficient enough to not blow the ship up during a highly straining situation like coming under a constant bombardment in battle.

Months would go by with different tests either ending in failure or success, both unveiling more and more knowledge about their new enemy and the secrets of their energy manipulation. It would be around nine months after the devastating battle that a project would be born that would change the face of Tsvìet warfare and their knowledge of both their mysterious enemy and themselves. The consequences would change the Tsvìets forever.

One PRM scientist by the name of DRGN SLYR would make a bold and daring experimental plunge into the unknown and hook herself up to a device she created to try and blade the comatose energy within one of the crystal ships. Their research was plateauing and she knew that if she didn't present the queen with a more incredible discovery, she could find herself facing a horrible fate for not moving any of her based fleet group to even aid the other crusading fleets. 

Under the watchful gaze of Tsvìets, A.I.s and C.T.s, she activated the device.

The rate of transfer had no way of being slowed as the collective sentience of the alien energy moved of its own will except for backwards. Unknown to any at the time, the collective consciousness of tens of millions of these alien beings attempted to rip her apart down at the level of pure planck length energy particles as she tried to blade the mass of thoughts and experiences. What occurred was the longest, most agonizing experience of the scientist's life- something that would never be replicated by her again as her body and impressive brain tried to compute, quantify and absorb the maelstrom of sentient energy. 

With a horrible explosion, DRGN SLYR was disintegrated in a cacophony of loud, blue light dust and the crystal ship was empty of all alien energy signs. Many would wonder why the explosion didn't infect the rest of the facility and faculty but were left with no answers.

Until several months later as over the course of this time, strange anomalies would pop up here and there across the entire planetary system, whether it be in the mines on the planet or on the bridge of a Mother-class ship. It drew the concern of the fleet primals and any sightings were immediately reported with dedicated crews attempting to capture, contain or investigate the cloud of blue particles. After a week of the last sighting of that, an entity bearing eerie similarities to a Tsvìet nervous system was seen trying to communicate with those around it by using military handsigns. The only places it favored appearing at were the comatose crystal ships which it would drain pieces of it at a time. 

A month of this being's first sighting, with several more happenings between then and now, the figure had developed into a nearly translucent, semi-permeable figure that bore a facial similarity to the deceased DRGN SLYR. Rumors and theories were abound as the figure made simple communication with forensic teams and analysts but never allowed any kind of contact with its body. What they could understand from it was that it claimed to be DRGN SLYR and she was trying to learn all that she could. 

At the end of the third month, the entity appeared once more among the Tsvìets, this time was a radiant being with white skin and hair and red eyes. Many thought for a moment that their queen had somehow appeared and was standing on the nose of a PRM dreadnought...in space. Their confusion was somewhat abated when the figure's luminosity dulled as its hair turned jet black and eyes changed to a vibrant gold that glowed like twin fires. An immaculate but flattering black dress with a pair of white stripes across her waist appeared to hug her body, ending at her feet and donning her arms with open-ended, long sleeves.

Though her hair, skin and eyes were different, the face was mostly the same and it looked as if it truly was DRGN SLYR.

When she simply phased through the ship and onto the command bridge, she understandably caused quite a stir and all wanted to take some sort of defensive action simply because of honed training and instinct but they were stopped..by an overwhelming psychic force over the Tsvìets' pseudo-hive mind. Only one being could cause that to their knowledge and with a flash that blinded their minds and eyes, they were calmed as they all simply felt like their queen was physically there among them now.

Though they couldn't see it except through physical body signs from DRGN SLYR, their queen and the reborn scientist were having a private conversation.

For Queen SING, this was something she would have never guessed within a week's time. The action DRGN SLYR took was restless and paid a hefty toll but the woman's sheer genius-oriented physiology pulled through and she was able to reconstruct her entire being back together from particles even smaller than quarks and leptons; particles that would take them millennia to travel a Planck length of their own accord. Her consciousness had been spread apart among all of those particles and it was only by the sheer instinctual desire of the Tsvìets to feed and blade that the scattered pieces had unintentionally put themselves back together by constantly searching out and cannibalizing each other they could find. Eventually, enough were reunited that she regained a sense of awareness, disembodied as it was. Still, she could only remember her desire to feed and so she kept on blading her scattered remnants until she began regaining memories. Using those memories and her vast knowledge, she began reconstructing her body, amassing incredible amounts of energy by draining and blading the energy aliens resting in their ships.

Since she had been deconstructed to a point even smaller than quantum energy could be classified in, she was able to metaphysically drag them ''kicking and screaming'' into a plane of existence so tiny they had no experience with, much like with what they did to her. The process was slow the first couple of weeks but by the time she had become semi-permeable, she had the trick down pat.

Feeling quite bold now, DRGN SLYR had made several inquiries into the Queen's own nature which still dwarf her own. She would describe it as 'If I am an amalgamation of energy and data the size of a PRM warship, the Queen is like the planet of Cradle of Life by size comparison.' To her surprise and glee- as well as slight disappointment at not getting the chance to figure it out herself- the Queen disclosed with her her own true origins and the two swore to keep it a secret for now as their species simply wasn't ready. The only other who knew was HUKE seeing as how HUKE was born from the Queen's own being.

Queen SING was the actual embodiment of all that was their homeworld; an avatar containing its full power but sealed behind dozens of self-imposed psionic locks that required various stipulations to unlock. Every single bit of knowledge, every bit of skill and power each and every Tsvìet achieved funneled into her being as a conceptual law, that being "Of course, if the Queen is composed of all things accomplished by the species itself, than any knowledge, skills, power, memories, etc. gained would become a part of Queen SING."

It was how the Queen came to being in the first place. Tens of thousands of years of those horrid, brief lifespans beneath the homeworld's surface built her up piece by piece. This process wasn't all because of the Tsvìets either. While they did contribute the most and shaped Queen SING into her dominant form, she herself started out as the Cradle of Life itself. Bearing the body made indestructible by the intense, molten pressure of the planet's core over the course of untold millennia and endowed with the combined knowledge of all life forms on and within the planet's biosphere, she was technically a Tsvìet-sized cosmic entity. As long as Cradle of Life lived, she could not die. As long as the Tsvìets lived, she would forever be the most powerful of the species unless someone like DRGN SLYR blades every other Tsvìet in existence to gain power almost equal to hers.

The revelation was quite sobering for the new energy construct disguising as a Tsvìet.

Queen SING sought to capitalize on this opportunity and offered her a new position as her Right Hand, her species' Intellect- and 'Archive of Knowledge'- and all the clearance and authority she'd need to advance her people further. SING also endowed the scientist with all of the knowledge and academics every Tsvìet have ever discovered and/or understood. Being more of an energy reconstruction, DRGN SLYR's brain power was entire leagues above even C.T. capabilities and capacity. Once her brain's flesh could no longer sustain any more data, she began pouring the rest into a tome that was just as much a part of her as her new body was.

It goes without saying that DRGN SLYR agreed and didn't waste time with any formalities. With her new authority and powers, she returned to her original post where the Fleet Primals were informed of the new situation. Once the Chain of Command was updated, DRGN SLYR began using her newly understood knowledge to correct the experimental equipment with an efficiency and speed that hard pressed the others to just keep up. In a week's time, the next test firing of the hybrid cannons were a complete success with a destructive capacity nearing that of Kryazors, the newly discovered name of the species they were at war with. 

DRGN SLYR also finally understood why the Kryazors attacked them. It seemed the BOolrk had made many enemies. The Kryazors could only interact and differentiate based on electromagnetic and bio-electric signals which were usually unique to each species' own type of technology. The fact that the Tsvìets' own technological foundation began by reverse engineering BOolrk technology, coupled with transmitting a radio signal in the BOolrk language and the Tsvìets being direct descendants of others who quite literally ate and absorb tens of millions of BOolrk, made themselves indistinguishable from the BOolrk to the Kryazors.

Now that they understood the problem, SING ordered DRGN SLYR to transmit a data package made by the new Royal-class to the other two Crusader fleets to hopefully have a retry for a proper first-contact negotiation.

Aside from that and calibrating the new weapon and shield systems before producing them for the other ships, DRGN SLYR began assimilating more of the Kryazors ships like a glutton. She didn't suffer any kind of problem like she did before. Prepared for the onslaught of the energy souls who seemed more confused at her strange existence than hostile at her, she devoured millions upon millions of the individuals within each ship. As her power and knowledge grew by exponential bounds, so too did her tome become more and more corporeal as it seemed to distort space around it, becoming more visible and recognizable by others. It was a heavy looking black tome with a rough skin cover and outlined with metallic book guards. Green light wisps would flare around it whenever it was open and it captured the curiosity of all who saw it.

About three months after her true resurrection, DRGN SLYR began performing the blading experiment on other scientists that she would help through the process. Two hundred scientists and seven hundred warriors, each caste equally divided between the MNR and PRM-classes, were chosen by her after gifting them each with smidgens of the knowledge over the course of a week that were relevant to surviving the process. The mad science project began again and with the involvement of so many Tsvìets, splitting the available captured Kryazors ships among groups of thirty Tsvìets was a necessity.

The resulting experiment was a nightmare the A.I.s and C.T.s onboard would be traumatized by the amount of torture so many of their sisters went through. Unknown before it started, because DRGN SLYR had a hand in slowing the process down so as to not overwhelm the Tsvìets, this process dragged on for days. To her annoyance and intrigue, many of the Tsvìets- being so close to each other during the experiment- formed psionic bonds to try and overcome the struggle. Entire groups joined together as their bodies collectively disintegrated into quantum energy and latched onto each other to form singular beings.

With DRGN SLYR's careful psionic guidance and energy manipulation, she could not restore them to their original bodies but instead helped model them bodies much similar to her own.

A couple of weeks after their disintegration, the 900 Tsvìets were finally restored, but within just 13 bodies that shared the Royal-class phenotype associated with Queen SING.

This result was not what either SING or DRGN SLYR wanted and many desired for the Queen to reign the seemingly mad scientist in. To keep up with appearances, the Queen ordered a ship carrying DRGN SLYR and the thirteen 'Royals' to be brought back to Cradle of Life while the rest of the fleet would use the knowledge DRGN SLYR brought about to better fortify the star system with one-hundred of the newly modified ships leaving to catch up with the other Crusader fleets with their newly upgraded engines that were capable of relativistic speeds averaging about 88% light speed.

Hopefully, their assistance will not be needed and the Kryazors would listen to them now.

On the PRM-class ship, DRGN SLYR was helping her 13 unexpectedly successful experiments adjust to their new bodies and abilities.The Archive had a predatory smile on her face as she had a little under nine years to prepare for her 'trial'.

Tsvìets in 1^st Expansion Armada- 422

C.T.s: 420,543,110

Drones:
Combat (Support: pilots, drivers, etc.; Direct: infantry)- 300,384,939,000; MSVs- 23,030
Labor- 900,203,880,303 
Medical- 1,148,020

Combat ship count:
Devastator-class - 708/1,680; 183 (Repairing)
Hunter-class - 1,007/1,260; 34 (Repairing)
PRM-class - 35/35
Mother-class - 70/70

 Note: So, second try at this. For some reason, despite the auto-save feature saving my work every five words or something, when the page refreshed just when I had about 5k words, ALL of the work on this entry disappeared and it REALLY pissed me off. Please look into that shit, DeviantArt.

Date: 16,056 AQA.

Many years have passed for the isolated Tsvìets though they learned they weren't as alone as they thought in their solar system. Getting to that point, it took several hundred years for the Tsvìets to really develop and master the crafts of metal working, wood working, farming and hunting smartly, and discovering much about their new worlds.

The introduction of the BOolrk technology gave them ideas and with the knowledge bladed, they were able to 'put the puzzles together' on their own, developing their own society and cultures. Some stuck to the Path of Beasts (6 times Earth mass), enjoying the constant dangers of the world's various flora and fauna. Groups of hunters led by the smarter and more powerful PRMs split off into each ecosystem to learn of the nature there and how best to live and thrive in it. Centuries of painstaking and sometimes fatal experiences turned the shaved tail louies into hardened, experienced hunters and their dedication to their crafts and sturdy, adaptive natures allowed paved the way for huntresses and hunters who could become 'another child of the forest' as if they'd lived there all of their lives.

It was on this planet that they met another sentient species who were made intelligent, wise and powerful in their long life spans, as well as prideful. The WRMs (Wyrms) of the plains and coasts were ruggedly built reptilian quadrupeds with powerful bodies carried by thick muscles and protected by scales that would take a plasma staff few seconds of constant contact to fully penetrate. They wielded a thick tail half as long as their body adorned with sharp spikes at the ends, had wings that could only give them half an hour of flight at the most despite their strength, and could spit natural napalm from glands within their mouths that'd ignite with the atmosphere.

There was a bloody turf war between them and the local hunter groups that resulted in the deaths of many of both sides in the initial battles. Upon learning of this, SING would have sent in more reinforcements but the PRMs of the planet asked to let it be settled by their hunters, for if they were the invasive species and if they could not defeat the WRMs with their own power, then the WRMs had more claim to the land than the Tsvìets did. SING accepted the logic and merely watched and waited from her own ship in orbit.

After the initial battles, the Tsvìets that made kills bladed the WRM bodies and adapted a few new changes after a few standard weeks of mutating: both genders developed slightly longer life spans and resilience to high temperatures on the level of plasma- a few seconds longer than they could already withstand. Gender specifically, the females developed the napalm breath and toughened skin in places the subdermal plates were absent while the males grew more muscle mass, the napalm breath, and a massively mutated skeletal system. Their subdermal plates hardened and their bones underneath grew and even sprouted from their bodies in many places, such as thick bone spikes along their spines, losing a third of their tendril feelers, on their elbows and knees, forearms, shins, heels and knuckles as well as a row of teeth-like spikes protruding upwards a few inches out of the skin along the collar bone. The biggest mutation was their skeletal system on their torsos, as the ribs and chest plate grew out of the skin and formed a second set each, with some of the gaps more filled in with bone plates while underneath was filled with expanded muscles, the original skeleton hardened to unbelievable levels. It increased their chest depth by about five inches which forced their bodies to expand outwards to maintain the limberness and flexibility they had developed and trained, becoming taller with broader shoulders. Combining these new traits with their pre-existing ones, specifically regeneration, made the Hunting PRMs absolute monsters compared to the standard Tsvìet warrior.

These new advantages allowed the hunter groups to fight more effectively against the WRMs, expanding the kill to death ratio from 2:1 to 10:1, with no males being killed. These skirmishes would continue for many decades. It took that long for the WRMs to realize that the invaders were not trying to kill them all out but were merely integrating themselves into the food chain of the Path of Beasts, hunting only out of necessity. Once this was established, the fights only ever happened if the Hunters targeted the WRMs. The reptiles were fine with this and sometimes, communication efforts yielded moments of peaceful talks and playful fights. The WRMs taught them about many secrets of the world long kept unmolested and the Tsvìets would return the favors with stories of their own people with the first few decades of a baby's life spent in the tunnels of their homeworld with their mother to harden their body before venturing out into the other worlds.

As this happened in these local biomes, similar events happened in the others, though not all as fantastic as the WRMs who have been the apex species for as long as they could remember, with the 'bulls' and 'mothers' of their species sleeping deep within the earth, aging but not degrading, growing tougher for tens of millennia. 

Other hunter groups brought new traits to the species but SING made it mandatory that only the traits that the hunters had to fight and struggle for would be exclusive to the hunters. If a Tsvìet from another planet wanted it, they would have to undergo the training to hunt the host beast of the desired trait. The hunters felt immense pride from such a compassionate decree, making their efforts seem invaluable rather than having the DNA samples shipped off-world to be acquired by those who could not appreciate the struggles of the hunters to obtain it.

Other traits some groups were trying to adapt to were wings, though it was definitely harder than other traits as their skeletal system within their torso region had to rearrange it and grow new bones. The process was quite painful and much to the chagrin of the PRMs who tried this trait, they found that their wings simply weren't strong enough due to their immensely disproportionate weight to give them more than a minute of flight. Turns out the MNRs were more suited to having wings due to their lighter weight. Even still, the host beast with the best 'wing' gene for them to adopt was not one any MNR could take on when keeping to the traditions of the hunter groups, such as no advanced weaponry unless you're facing beasts with heavy armor. Due to this, only a few dozen MNRs got some neat wings and found new roles in their hunter groups though there was always a danger of the larger aerial predators thinking them as food.

Aside from those on the 'Path of Murder/Death/Kill', another migration of Tsvìets made the first new planet, formerly the BOolrk Hive's main colony, into the Path of Knowledge (3.8 times Earth mass) where they spent the majority of their time studying and discovering new mathematics, sciences, and technologies, building grand schools and libraries that filled entire mountain ranges in their subterranean volume while astronomical and weather studying towers taller than the tallest mountain dotted the surface of the planet every few hundred miles. These researchers and teachers often spent time alone, among few others, or teaching the next generation of children the knowledge essential to choosing a path for their life. Often times, the children took after their parents but there were plenty who were brave enough to experiment with the unknown paths.

SING did not inhibit any type of study, from studying the stars from aboard orbital observatories or ships to biological experiments that would make any morally conscious human find religion if they'd caught a glimpse of their laboratories. No matter the branch of study, there were a thousand failures for every success, but that meant there were a thousand known ways on how to avoid failing for the future to learn from. 

Many new technologies were developed with much inspiration from their own imaginations aided with the ancient samples of BOolrk technologies, such as the power armor. Having a large, armored and armed comrade fighting by you sounded like a good idea and many iterations were theorized, tried and tested over hundreds of years, eventually settling for much larger counterparts of a C.T. combat body made in the likeness of a Tsvìet male. The general purpose models were about 20-25 ft tall and carried a range of weaponry and gear for a variety of role. The simple, robust nature allowed specialization for any kind of imagined mission. There's a heavier version six-legged walker or 8-thruster hover version about 35/25 ft tall respectively that acts as a mobile heavy weapons platform whether from anti-armor/infantry/aircraft roles with fire support and survivability being the two goals, and can double as a piggyback for dozens of troops and heavy equipment and supplies. These two types were simply called MASSIVEs (MSVs). Once the design was polished, it needed a better energy source then what regular infantry were provided with, and this was solved a century earlier thanks to an isotope found in the mantle of the Path of War.

It was mandatory for a child, upon reaching an age standard to their MNR or PRM status, to be enrolled into the general knowledge courses that would teach them the basics and advanced subjects critical to being a functioning, helpful Tsvìet. Upon the standard twenty year schooling- a few days every couple of weeks given to reconnect with their mothers- the children would spend a few years with their family while touring the different Paths to give them perspective. Upon the end of the vacation, they all would be shipped to mandatory military training and once finished with that, should they decide to expand their intellectual knowledge by pursuing a specific study, they will be apprenticed to a teacher who will guide them and test them thoroughly for many years, usually around twenty on average. Upon achieving the approval of the teacher, that student can become an apprentice for a researcher to focus on their choice of study, whether it is astronomy, biology, theoretical and practical research for things like the military, the star navy, or non-military usage. Usually, these apprentices are the child of their respective researcher and once a researcher dies, the child blades the body and inherits all of their parents' memories with their knowledge and wisdom guiding them from making any mistakes they might incidentally repeat. If a researcher has apprenticed one not their child, they would usually split their body offering between their child or children and the student.

Upon another planet- the Path of Nursery (4/5 of Earth mass)- was where mothers would go to raise their children into small adolescents before sending them off to the Path of Knowledge for their schooling. This planet is filled with enough open space and 'underground' space for each Tsvìet to have a massive home built up or dug out from wherever they please. With space not an issue and plenty of calm scenery, it is a peaceful world to quietly raise one's offspring at an easy pace. There is a problem with children sometimes becoming so bonded that they need a few years more than others to be ready to leave for school but it's nothing deprecating to anyone's health and the children are usually quick to wean themselves of their mother complex once they begin interacting with children of the class.

The newest colonized planet of the system is the Path of Ice (2 times Earth mass), the planet they had once detected subterranean heat sources from. This ball of frozen ice and deep snow led to the discovery of an indigenous species of 'frost slimes' for a lack of a better term. They got the habit of mimicking the outline shape of Tsvìets but their bodies were translucent to a degree one could see pink and red organs within the 'chest' and 'head' regions, and they showed the ability to change their bodies according to the texture of whatever they touch as long as it's biological. However, the default 'texture' of the amorphous creatures was a gel covered in a thin layer of frost. They were very curious and their ignorance combined with that trait to almost create some instances of hostility and misunderstanding. It took many years of frequent interaction for a basis of comprehensive gestures and non-lethal bladings to formally establish a clear line of communication and the Tsvìets found themselves not really desiring to blade the friendly blobs unanimously called 'MMKs' (Mimick forms) until the meaning and truth of the act could be explained to them without scaring them.

As for the heat sources, they were massive pockets of geothermal energy the MMKs rarely interacted with outside of the MMKs that had long ago strayed near and adapted to them to become a more heat-related MMK rather than an ice/aquatic one. These felt like warm gelatin that was heated up but wouldn't melt. The problem this subspecies faced was that the lifespan of the thermal pockets were fickle and sometimes would only last a few years or a few decades so the Tsvìets used several laser bombardments to burn a hole deep into the ground over a detected thin area of the continental plate that had a build-up of pressure from heat and magma. With meticulous planning, they manage to make a heat vent and built an eco-friendly geothermal plant to facilitate the lifespan of the vent. It was quite the complicated task given the numerous variable to take into account but a few years of designing before hand, a week of 'digging' and a month of building followed by another month of testing finally gave the thermal MMKs a safe haven, attracting tens of thousands of thermal MMKs thanks to both their migrating nature and help from Tsvìets to transport them safely.

While there wasn't much for the planet to offer the Tsvìets compared to the other Paths, a study showing the overall increase in intelligence on the MMKs' part made SING realize that the planet truly belonged to the native species and since there were no bad feelings between the two, she didn't bother giving them the BOolrk treatment and hoped to cultivate another friendly ally. Aside from resources, it did provide a very decent training ground both for hunters and traditional soldiers, as well as testing beds for the environmental durability of machinery, so it attracted a rather small group of a few thousand Tsvìets split among groups of hundreds. Over the centuries and millennia, these groups would adapt very well to the -80 degrees Fahrenheit year-round climate and produce some of the most mentally disciplined soldiers and hunters among their species.

The final planet was the Path of War (15 times Earth mass) settled first by the C.T.s who had done an unimaginable overhaul with the entire planet. In the past many centuries, the tens of millions of labor and construction drones worked tirelessly, their processors filled with a dream to improve themselves and aid their creator's people, the Tsvìets. SING had made several visits to her friend, HUKE, to tour the planet and check up on them all. There hadn't been much danger to the machine army while working due to the world being a dead world despite a small ocean caused from a massive comet hitting long ago and melting over the span of thousands of years.

Grand, heavily supported and fortified caverns filled with storage chambers, factories, conversion plants, railways, etc. stretched completely around the middle of the mantle layer, the core of the planet having been cooling for tens of millennia and so the mantle itself wasn't as unstable as feared yet hardened to great degrees, providing a plethora of ores of very pure quality along with gems of a quality enough to greatly help the progression of laser technologies.

One of the most abundant was a black ‘gem’ that collected an insane amount of energy when targeted with lasers and glowed green, thus leading them to be incidentally discovered and studied. Among the studies, it showed to remain dormant when fractured yet stripping away its protons created an 'expansion' of its stored energy, enough for a black diamond the size of a pencil eraser to carry the explosive energy potential of a one megaton warhead. This diamond could be used in explosive munitions or as a power source for very powerful laser and beam weaponry when it focused the energy it releases, or for nuclear powered facilities and equipment such as the MSVs. Due to its pitch black color, it was unanimously called the ‘void gem.’

Due to the need to move large amounts of supplies constantly, massive trains a hundred meters wide and half a mile long were created in the hundreds, ferrying labor workers and equipment and materials 24/7. There were fifty levels between the bottom-most and the surface of the planet, each level capable of completely isolating itself from the others in the case of enemy breach or pathogen release, and all contained garrisons, supply depots, repair and construction facilities, vehicle garages, missile silos, and some massive rooms for power generators and their redundant systems. The top ten levels were interconnected more than the lower ones so that if a war was to be raged on the surface, elevators could lift troops, armor and aircraft up to join the fight. Many elevators were one way to prevent usage by the enemy while the two-way elevators were connected to the great Mayan pyramid-esque bases that were miles wide, covered in AA and AAA guns while holding missile silos, artillery cannons, surface to orbit anti-ship (SOAS) batteries, power generators for force fields around the bases and garrisons capable of containing thousands of troops and hundreds of vehicles.

These bases were spread over all the land space on the planet, each an exact fifteen miles between from the other is any direction except above and below. The rarer few exceptions were the even larger command bases that were basically the same in appearance but ringed by AA laser towers and were about five times larger. In the single ocean, there were several ‘Megaliths’ that were basically the command bases but on sea and went all the way down to the base of the ancient comet crater five miles below the surface. These bases were capable of being independent of each other for years in the case of a siege as they had plenty of redundant systems, spare parts for their own factories to replace or repair equipment, vehicles and drones, food storages for any Tsvìet garrisons, and thick rock walls reinforced and covered in thick slabs of metal with thousands of small ports to point cannons out of. There was also an aquatic Navy of surface and submersible warships equipped for any kind of naval combat, even against ships in geosynchronous orbit. 

As for the surface, that part took a great amount of materials but was relatively simple. The ENTIRE surface aside from the bases was covered in metallic sheets and reinforced concrete just a few feet beneath some surfaces while completely exposed in others. Artificial environmental obstacles such as open spaces, zeroed in trenches, or booby trapped pieces of cover such as a trench or solid protruding obstacle covered the exposed territory, each built to give the closest fire support base maximum advantage depending on what type of troops, armor, aircraft and artillery they possessed.

Dotting throughout the areas between the bases, about a mile between each was a 300 meter tall by 50 meter thick tower housing defending troops and cannon emplacements, though their main purpose was to locate and triangulate the coordinates of enemy positions and movements in order to maximize every bit of firepower from the local bases’ artillery squadrons. Even more, there were hundreds of one-way elevator lifts hidden below the surface between these towers that would spring up with a couple of choice weapon picks for an ambush, such as automated missile turrets, squads of heavily armored shock troopers, automated flamethrowers, flare launchers, gatling guns or explosive directional charges. The cleverest were small force field generators that would encapsulate itself and an area of forty meters in all directions, trapping enemy forces to be pounded on by artillery, aircraft, or search & detain/destroy parties. Normally, a squad of heavy shock troopers would accompany one of these traps.

All of these amazing fortifications and planetary bunker complexes were built and finished just shy of the 800 year mark since they’d dug the first tunnel. The planet was now more bunker and metal than it was of rock and earth and it was an absolute death trap for any sort of hostile military to land on. It would be a few hundred years more before it gets fully garrisoned and gets its own dedicated defense fleets from the Path of Defiance.

Around the 3000^th year mark after the defeat of the BOolrk, the construction of a massive shipyard was completed. It was so large that it took a few decades just to properly design and gather the materials for from the many asteroids rings just outside of Path of Nursery which was the fourth planet from the blue giant sun. The Path of Defiance sat just outside of Path of War’s revolutionary track though not as far out as Path of Ice.

It was a skeletal-like colossus 1000 human miles in diameter with space between the surface structure and the core relatively empty as it actually surrounded the core of a small gas planet. From space, you couldn’t see the shipyard for the gas planet’s atmosphere but it was there. It drew energy from the core of the planet and siphoned some gases from around it. The shipyard was spherical with several large gaps, each stretch of length containing its own conveyor belt system for building a ship of a certain size or function. Facilities within the super-structure turned the raw materials brought in into prefabricated pieces of ships and set on a section of the main conveyor belt. Once all spots in the sections were filled, they would be transferred to the thirty mile long main belt line where automated cranes with their own separate tasks quickly assembled the pieces which were designed to secure themselves once attached. Each piece was designed with its own electrical grid that would wirelessly connect with each other, removing the need for technicians and electricians during this stage.

The longest part of the construction of a ship is always the very beginning where each part is made before being transferred. Once that is done, the total length of time to make a ‘devastator’-class ship (traditional heavy destroyer role with general flexible shape of a crocodile) with the basic physical dimensions of 2 mile length by 900 meter width and 500 meter height is averaged at thirty standard human minutes. By this time, it’d be an hour before the next prefab pieces are constructed but if there’s a healthy stock ready, another Devastator will be entering the main belt line by the time the previous ship is finished. With there being ten main belt lines for this size of ship, a whole fleet of 240 Devastators can be created and manned within a 24 hour period. This is, however, if the stock is filled as gathering the raw materials does take time from both travel speed and locating fresh sources to mining them and this is one type of ship while the larger ones take a few hours each and have fewer main belt lines as well as taking majority of the delivered raw materials. It’s not often construction factories are fully stocked as SING and HUKE have plans that involve a lot of expanding so they are constantly at work.

The leaders do not know if the BOolrk were at the top of the pyramid or merely bottom feeding nomads but they did not want to be unprepared and they had a whole solar system to protect. They wanted the military numbers to effectively patrol and secure the vast spaces between each planet from one side of the sun to the other.

There’s also the concern of logistics during voyages outside the solar system. The BOolrk did not have FTL ability and as such, the Tsvìets had no clue about the concept of such a thing. To them, the speed of light was the absolute limit yet they had no way to power and protect ships to travel at such speeds. The best their ships could travel were sub-relativistic speeds, basically using massive rockets to send them to their maximum speed and coast the way through the friction-less void of space.

Tsvìet weaponry of the 4000^th year mark grew to be very effective against the old examples of BOolrk ships and armor but they needed other examples of different militarized species to test them truly. Field testing on one type of enemy would bring about the problem of specializing against that particular foe and leave them vulnerable to a different type.

It was on this anniversary of the defeat of the BOolrk that SING and HUKE sent out a crusading armada to the surrounding solar systems once light speed transmissions begin reaching back to them. There were very brief sightings of BOolrk habitations within two solar systems underneath their own, about ten and seven light years away respectively among five planets between the two. Seven fleets would be sent for both.

 To the galactic ‘West’ of them, a solar system twelve light years away had a yellow star with three dead worlds lied uninhabited. Two fleets would do; one to provide defense while the other consists ore of prefab colonization structures and equipment.

Towards the ‘North’, pointing at the center of the perceived galaxy, there were three solar systems a few light years apart from each other and the farthest from the Tsvìets’ being about eight light years away. They each had- from closest system to farthest- a blue sun with two planets, a red sun with a gas giant and one other planet with several moons, and a yellow star with seven small planets and dozens of moons respectively. All showed signs of small colonization by a single, unfamiliar species if their ship designs were an indicator. Twenty-one fleets would be aimed at them; seven for each system, two fleets of each branch consisting mainly of supplies and construction equipment in the case of colonization efforts alongside the aliens or after they are beaten back.

The closest solar system above theirs was about fifteen light years away and consisted of a small gas giant revolving around a small white star which was spinning extremely fast. It had zero habitation though scans picked up drifting wrecks of unknown ship designs. It would require investigation. Two fleets would be sent just to be safe.

Finally, to their ‘South’, there was…..almost nothing. There were a few brown and white stars with a few planets each that showed severe battle scars. This was a bit unnerving so four complete battle fleets would be sent to each star to investigate.

While this armada of forty-seven fleets consisting of 11,280 Devastator-class ships, 8,460 of the slightly heavier armored and bigger Hunter-class ships (heavy cruiser role, 1.5 times each size dimension of Devastator), 235 PRM-class ships (borderline dreadnought/aircraft carrier, 4 times each size dimension of Hunter) and finally 470 Mother-class ships (supplies and troop transport role, 5 times each size dimension of PRM. Is slow, has heaviest armor, shielding and AA and Anti-missile defenses.) took to the stars, the remaining fifty-three fleets stayed at home, five for each Path with the rest patrolling the solar system.

If there had been so many possible enemies so close to their solar system then there was no telling if any were on their way here to contest with the BOolrk, another expanding species, or any native species.

Population as of 16,056 AQA

Tsvìets: females- 502,093; males- 31

Female MNRs- 402,383; Male MNRs- 23

Female PRMs- 99,709; Male PRMs- 8

Royal- 1

Combat ready: females- 439,030 males-29
Hunters (of the number above)- 4,220

Tsvìets in 1^st Expansion Armada- 1,309

Note: Those who are not warriors/soldiers are either researchers, engineers, pregnant or nursing mothers, and children not graduated from Path of War yet.

C.T.s: 503,283,000

Drones:
Combat (Support: pilots, drivers, etc.; Direct: infantry)- 303,384,939,000; MSVs- 23,300
Labor- 1,000,203,880,303
Medical- 1,348,020

Tsvìets' Rise from Ash (Ch.2)

The sudden breakthrough in technological knowledge and development was not easy for the Tsvìet swarm to comprehend for numerous weeks. It was staggering for many that so much existed even while they were already trying to get use to learning so much on their own. However, with SING's leadership and charisma, the rest of the population was quick to fall in line.

All of the BOolrk bodies in the ship were consumed and work began on repairing the facilities within the colony flagship. Much machinery was damaged in the crash and getting started was a daunting task but help came in a surprising way. To supplement their numbers in the case of overwhelming odds, the BOolrk were fond of creating drones in their image that would tirelessly march forth onto battlefields or become a precision-based labor force, meaning they all were as smart as you made them and had hands as steady as a surgeon's and tough as a miner's. SING made use of them quickly, bringing online hundreds within hours and her people watched and learned how the distasteful machines (after one curious Tsvìet tried eating one) operated the bigger machines.

Much to SING's approval, the factory could create drones as well so she began redesigning an army for her people with the help of the onboard computer 'spirits' while repairs began in earnest. Raw materials were needed and the mineral conversion plants were never starved as the substitutes found on the planet were more than plentiful and of much higher quality then the BOolrk are use to.

It would be twelve years with the help of tens of thousands of the levitating drones working around the clock that the former flagship of the destroyed colony fleet would finally be rebuilt. It wasn't easy though. Once much of the sides and top portion of the crashed ship were repaired, they had to build a great hole underneath the ship, mining out the valley underneath the wreckage while building support structures to hold the ship up so repairs could be made on the bottom. 

Changes were made to it on SING's orders, emphasizing toughness and battle continuation. The ship originally looked like a dish plate with a bowl in the middle of it and a large tower sticking up on one point of the side. The tower was fortified and many large cannons were lined along the bottom and tops while support arms jutted from the thin sides, top and bottom in their thousands, working together to carry a massive armored shell welded together piece by piece and rigged with explosives enough to scrap it if necessary. Even then, along the area of this armored shell, more cannons were built and manned with the drones.

It was an uglier ship than before but the Tsvìets cared only about function and with food running dangerously short, SING initiated the final phase of her preparations. She'd need a much more massive war party that would do what she said yet be able to act on its own in regards to whatever the situation needed.

Knowing this and having worked with the computer spirits for years to develop, they had engineered a cranium device for SING and the first completed Tsvìet drone made in their likeness. Upon activation, SING was able to turn an android that required command inputs into an artificial intelligence by sharing her mind and dreams with it. What would normally take a machine like this more advanced software and comprehension capabilities was jump-started like a formerly dead body.

SING shared everything with it and it became a mechanical extension of her Will.

When the two awoke from the procedure, the new being, designated HUKE, was quick to infiltrate and take over the systems of the ship, performing a virtual Blading on the existing BOolrk computer spirits. Having been born inside their systems already, they were devoured from the inside-out, powerless to stop HUKE's hostile takeover. 

Once the whole ship was now truly under SING and HUKE's joint authority, they began cranking out an army of drones, scuttling much of the insides of the ship's structure such as barracks, hangars, weapons, power suits, and surplus repair materials, as well as mining more of the rich resources within the volcanic pits that dotted the world.

A thousand drones were made in a week and were stored within the ship after the drones who'd operate the ship's posts were created first. They were designed to take much punishment, dish it back out with heavy energy lances, to take commands from any Drone of authority and Tsvìet, and to uphold the survival of any Tsvìet unit above their own well-being. 

Within a year, 52,000 drones were stored and awaiting combat. The time to go was now. To preserve food supplies, all Tsvìets had been barred from having anymore kids since the ship had first crashed; an order to be receded when the food supply problems were fixed. It ticked some off but pretty much made them more than blood thirsty to get this war over with.

With all Tsvìets of the planet onboard, SING gave the order and the ship slowly rose from its berthing yard. A large view port had been made along several decks, hidden by several layers of armor, and it gave the Tsvìets their first true look into space itself. The experience was indescribable for many. Seeing their own sun for the first time, watching it and the stars through a polarized view port became a favored past-time for the Tsvìets while the ship made a beeline towards the nearest planet that had BOolrk communication traffic coming from it.

The journey would take a month at full realspace speeds and SING and her war party 'officers' spent much time going over the strategy for this planetary siege. Nine years ago, all they knew about war was storming tunnels, but now they're in a hijacked spaceship. Many arguments were made and SING revealed the secrets of the new design of the ship after she spent time pointing out many flaws within the original design scheme that led to the ship getting shot down so easily.

Once the plan and several backup ones were agreed and explained upon, they set course for the signal of the rival hive mind. They would have to attack it head-on and take it out as quick as possible since they're expecting the BOolrk to outnumber them a thousand to one.

Over the month, the factories had been working nonstop to provide a set of armored pads and energy melee weapons for the Tsvìets. Seeing the effectiveness of their own bodies against the small arms of the BOolrk, time and resources were efficiently managed by making just armor units for body parts instead of whole suits. These comprised torso and chest plates, leg guards for the thighs, shins, and calves, a metal shell to go over the top of their tendrils, and a helmet resembling those of ancient Sparta without the plumes. For weapons, they were armed with energy lances that resembled a spear with the plasma tip curving down a portion of the shaft to give them a thrusting and slashing weapon.

When the day finally came with the other BOolrk hive mind's blooming colony in sight, along with its orbiting fleet of thirty ships, the combined army of 52,000 drones and 39,000 Tsvìets were prepped and ready.

Unlike with many stories of bravery and going against impossible odds, SING did not give a speech. Such a practice (cliche or not) was unfamiliar to her but she did understand the need to be motivated despite a clear-headed Tsvìet warrior being deadlier than a berserk one in the right circumstances. With her hive mind authority, she merely implanted the burning passion she has for giving her people a chance to prosper beyond their destitute, failing world into each and every heart aboard the ship. Due to the synthetic nature of HUKE, her A.I. counterpart was able to interpret it as well as pass the coded feeling along to the drones.

When the BOolrk tried to hail the Tsvìets on the comms, it failed as SING saw no reason to spare words with the invaders. 

It was with a THUMP sound that all knew the battle for their survival had begun as the first barrage of enemy laser fire splattered across the armored shell of the retrofitted flagship. The heavily fortified seven mile long ship weathered the fire of a dozen ships while the batteries dotting along its surface returned fire, splattering heavy lasers against the quickly falling energy shields of the defenders.

As one ship after another was destroyed or had to fall back and much of the shell of the flagship boiling away, SING waited until the right moment to spring her trap. The Tsvìet flagship was surrounded on five sides from the front to the top and bottom. A massive, single barrage from the twenty remaining ships slammed into the shell right when SING activated the charges on the support arms beneath the shell.

Heated to boiling red, the shell broke apart outwards as the explosive charges detonated at once. The enemy thought the ship was destroyed due to the bombardment causing eruptions throughout the ship but they were wrong. The supports were improvised rockets that launched off when they were separated from the ship. The BOolrk found themselves being shot at by giant pieces of molten metal and were quick to fire upon the improvised battering rams.

With their guns unfocused, SING began the next phase. When the shell had broken away, HUKE had locked onto the main guns of the ships that had drifted into knife fighting ranges. When the shell fragments were destroyed, the recharging ships found themselves facing a patched work BOolrk colony flagship with way too many laser batteries to be normal pointing at them. Having fired two large barrages so quickly, there was little power left in their shields and the incoming barrages from the hijacked flagship pelted them like a rain of lasers. 

Shields fell in seconds before lasers began impacting the laser batteries and bridges of the BOolrk ships with impunity. Since it didn't have any shields, HUKE was diverting all power into the guns and their coolant systems.

After non-stop firing for a full minute, the laser batteries of the flagship were almost melted in their mounts but not a single enemy ship was capable of fighting back. In one minute, ten ships had been utterly annihilated due to secondary explosions while the other ten were mostly weaponless and leaderless, thus listless as well.

Ten tubes of the available thirty on the flagship were launched at the ten crippled vessels. These tubes were like torpedoes without explosives yet their payloads were boarding war parties of forty each with sixty drones. With their weapon systems and bridge destroyed and blind, there was nothing the BOolrk ships could do to stop the tubes from slamming through their superstructures, sticking out like a needle from their bodies.

Concealed explosive charges around the doors detonated, blasting away debris and any BOolrk defenders before the Tsvìets and drones rushed from the hole, tanking laser fire and using their lances with skill quickly learned and taught during the month long trip.

SING was relieved at the success of such a daring plan but had to adjust her next plan. Onboard 'eyes' (cameras) that had been repaired showed that the spot the hive mind was mostly likely inhabiting was a growing city of metal buildings across twenty miles across and it was swarming with warriors, power suits, and other large units she could identify as some kind of heavy, mobile weapons platform (basically large tanks but neither the BOolrk or Tsvìets have such a word). 

Sing had faith in her warriors' skills but they'd be outnumbered a few hundred to one, and the enemy would have the home territory advantage. She had to think of an even crazier plan and luckily, HUKE's factories provided her one. There were seven hundred shuttles on board, each one capable of carrying about one-hundred Tsvìets and Drones. That's a capacity of 140,000, so there was room to spare for weapons and what-not. 

She loaded up all of her troops and HUKE's last command to the ship before 'she' boarded the shuttle with SING forced the ship to accelerate towards the center of the city, to land right on top of where that hive mind was sitting while all of the shuttles took off out of the ship and followed it from behind.

The different sorts of Anti-Aircraft artillery and lasers that fired up at the ship were insignificant as its flaming super body plowed into the city. The minerals, fuel, weapon batteries, and ship generators went critical the moment the hull began rapidly collapsing from the impact.

A massive wave of earth and metals exploded outwards as the ship detonated like a massive plasma torpedo. The impact itself had crushed the hive mind hiding in its palace completely along with a hundred city blocks equivalent. The shockwave would have flatten the entire city as well but the explosion merely added fuel to the fire as the shockwave destroyed the skyscrapers and defenses block by block like an unstoppable surge upon a beach of sand castles.

Having just reached lower orbit, SING and her people watched the explosion and following devastation with awe and excitement when looking over the beautiful, strange and exotic world that was covered in pastures and blue waters. Soon, their vision was clouded as the shuttles flew through the massive dust cloud that had risen up to meet them. Many were worried about the ships crashing but once the first layer was passed, the air within was like a less dusty version of their own home's atmosphere. It'd be several hours before the dust would settle.

In their hundreds, the shuttles landed about a mile outside the far reaching crater. As the warrior parties unloaded, they all couldn't help but stop and take a few moments to appreciate the devastation a crazy plan involving turning a seven mile circular ship filled with fuel and plasma batteries into an impromptu missile strike could cause.

With SING commanding presence, they went about securing the city and eliminating the near brain dead BOolrk in the city remnants while other shuttles ferried troops to the other settlements.

It'd be several weeks later when the last of the BOolrk on the planet and in orbit are confirmed slain. The amounted bodies would feed the Tsvìets good for many, many years. With the new planet taken over, SING used the drones to scour the ships to try and repair them. They were useful until she'd have them replaced with something more like the Tsvìets.

There were several factories on the planet as well and she and HUKE began putting them to use, creating parts for the ships and creating more drones for a labor force to help the Tsvìets build a new city, starting with an expansive catacomb of tunnels where the flagship crater was. Some habits just don't die.

When the first ships were repaired a few months later, she used them to monitor any activity in the solar system. Thankfully, this was the only hive mind in the system and there was no comm traffic at the two other planets they were detected at, meaning they were probably as brain dead as the ones on the first colony world had been; that, or they reverted to being feral.

Ships were sent out and as she suspected, the other colonies' populations were mindless. Their deaths meant more food for the Tsvìets as well as twenty fully functional ships and one colony flagship. One of the worlds was like the one they had invaded, full of farm sustaining climates and wildlife while the other had only a tiny colony due to the sheer density and variety of vegetation and climate respectively. It was also filled to the brim with creatures and 'insects' that the Tsvìets never imagined.

With BOolrk technology, they also detected an ice planet further out from everywhere else with several heat signatures deep underground. It'd be worth investigating much later. For the foreseeable future, she'd have her hands full with these three new planets filled with promises of a new chapter for her people.

It'd be a year later before the Tsvìets can confirm that the last of the BOolrk have been accounted for, either dead or lost in battle. Over five million bodies of the gelatinous beings were recovered along with working samples of all types of equipment, machinery, and military applicable resources such as weapons, power armors and aerial vehicles. While Blading the hive mind would have been much more preferable then the alternative, Blading enough of the 'spawns' would provide enough information but not much more different then what SING and HUKE already learned. 

With BOolrk factories on each colony re-purposed for Tsvìet needs, ships were in the process of being built and crewed by the Drones and some Drone 'war chiefs' that obeyed HUKE but led the other warriors, small cities were being dug out from mountains to the Tsvìets' preferences, and with new foods being 'grown' with 'agriculture', Tsvìets were allowed to mate again to expand numbers as these circumstances allowed for the need of it outside of the urges that had only been prevalent during mating season every decade.

The Tsvìets' rising prosperity would only continue to escalate for the next several thousand years as they learn to farm, to hunt the numerous and even more dangerous beasts on the 'hunt world'- further adopting more incredible abilities such as natural camouflaging, venom creation/secretion, redundant vital organs as they never had what humans would call as non-vital organs and digestive tracts, extreme flexibility, etc.- to slowly develop their homeworld into a planet slightly easier to live in as they felt a constant, distant 'calling' to never abandon it, and to experiment with all sorts of new ideas inspired by projects of the BOolrk, and use BOolrk technology to jump-start the actualization of the Tsvìets' own unique brand of military tactics and weaponry for conflicts in future expansion efforts.

With the rise in population yet the sheer ratio disparity between the number of males and females, Males have evolved to be capable of producing much sperm and SING has the scientist collect every month to store it for the next mating cycle. Science has yet to figure out a way to increase their number, though something that has occurred is that they've evolved to be larger and stronger than before, usually dwarfing the females by three heads.

Another phenomenon that occurred was a large scale mutation among the Tsvìets into three categories. Majority of them stayed the same but for around 5,000 of them, their skin turned a copper tan and their eyes and bulbs turned to a bright, glowing orange, separating themselves from the original tones and SING herself. They proved to be much more incredible in their physical and mental capabilities, the weakest 'PRM' (Prime) warrior being much more powerful than the strongest 'MNR' (Minor) warrior, not including genders. These 
several thousands happened to be descendants the warriors she forged from the first community that she had started her global conquest with. With their increased capabilities also came increased lifespan by a couple thousand years and the habit of birthing twins rather than singles.

It was discovered that the cause of this mutation was from the MNRs having had a head-start in Blading. It seemed that once you Bladed a certain amount within a generation, you'd evolve. The 'points' were even inheritable though PRMs wouldn't give birth to PRMs and the requirement for those children to evolve were even tougher than the MNRs who'd not been born from a PRM.

Rather than create jealousy and anger with their weaker counter-parts, it merely reasserted the drive to evolve and improve as in the end, even the PRMs and MNRs still wanted to be like their Queen who had only grown smarter and stronger over the millennia.

Alongside their biological siblings, the A.I.s, renamed C.T.s (Cold-borne Tsvìets as their are considered part of the people but not born from a warm womb) become the equivalent of PRMs and number in the thousands while their un-evolved subordinates (equivalent to basic Virtual Intelligence) grow into the hundreds of millions, constantly in a concerted effort to turn a dead world into a fortress planet, starting from making caverns and support structure miles underground and slowly working their way up. They intend to make it a home comfortable for them where repairs are never far away. 

SING expressed concerns over any insecurities they might have but HUKE presented none and instead felt the need to have a planet dedicated to raising a constantly alert and readied army and fleet in case any more invasive species arrive and make conflict with either of them.

Speaking of invasive species, SING by now has felt the desire to explore portions of the star systems surrounding them and wants to build a grand fleet to carry the explorers and warriors. HUKE gives plans to increase drone labor production and logistical ships in preparation to build a massive shipyard that would work much like the conveyor belt systems the drone factories use. It'd be massively more complicated but with HUKE's advanced intelligence and the precise nature of the machines' work ethics, it should be possible in several hundred years so SING gives her encouragement.
 
Date: 12,024 AQA (After Queen's Arrival), 3,928,343 BCT (Before Current Time)
(End ch.2)
Tsvìets' population: 135,122 females-35 males
Reproduction cycle: 5 years after every 100 years
Average lifespan: MNR female- 1,130 years; MNR male-1,700 years; PRM female- 3,020 years; PRM male- 3,800 years; GRN RYL (Grand Royal) female- Undetermined

Military:
Logistical ships: Supply-50, Construction-500
Combat: (Lengths range from 2-8 miles, not FTL capable)-2,032
C.T.s: 8,203 (+50 yearly); V.I.s: 23,083,929 Combat (+500,000 yearly), 321,399,292 Labor (+1,000,000 yearly)

Planets:
Cradle of Life - homeworld
Description/Resources: Minerals, metals, crystals, birthing/nursing caverns

Path of Knowledge - First planet conquered after killing hive mind of BOolrk
Description/Resources: Metals, medical, military and scientific research facilities and schools. Weapons, scientific breakthroughs, medicinal formulas

Path of Nursery - Second planet colonized
Description/Resources: Abundant farmlands and fisheries, vacation homes, fresh water (luxury as its not vital but damn good)

Path of Beasts - Third planet colonized
Description/Resources: dozens of different climates and bio spheres ranging from jungles to floating forest islands due to gravitational anomalies. Rich is natural resources from fossil fuels, fruits and plentiful variety of creatures to hunt=variety of traits to Blade.

Path of War - Fourth planet
Description/Resources: Dead world with few facilities on top as the Drones are transforming it from the bottom of the surface layer up into a bunker fortress world to raise and train armies. Armies, ships, vehicles

This will be the start of a series that will detail my universe that expands over many kinds of species, technologies, and events. To start this series off, I will begin with the most prevalent species and the main focus of my story. 

Next, I wish I could upload music that would play automatically on this when you open it. I highly suggest looking up the song 'The Road to War' by Simon Stevens on ShutterStock.com. If you want to listen to it without the annoying repeating voice, you'd have to buy a license for it or I'd have to upload a video on youtube with it since it's not on youtube.

Species: Tsvìets (silent 'T', 'ssssvvv', 'etis')
Governmental System: Monarchy; Artificial Hive Mind with 1 Grand Royal and 13 Royals, Queen and Princesses (with 1 Prince) respectively.

Territory: Militarily and socially dominant without equal in 38 galaxies within their 73 galaxies-large cluster group, while only militarily dominant (unknowing to the rest) in another 12 galaxies.

Tsvìets' Rise from Ash (Ch.1)

Origins: The truth of the Tsvìets' origins is shrouded in confidentiality and mystery, some stories becoming myths and others commonly accepted legends. It's only known to the 'First Tsvìet' and 'Immortal Queen' of the Tsvìet people, SING (pro. 'SHH-ING').

note: Tsvìet words are usually translated into all caps, but their actual language structure is a mixture of verbal, telepathic, and chemical variables. It's utterly impossible for a human to naturally be able to reproduce the sounds as just 'correctly' imitating the sound alone would have muscles in their throats ripped apart from the forced effort after just a few words.

The Tsvìet species evolved in some of the most difficult conditions. For untold thousands of years, they dwelled deep beneath the surface of their inhospitable planet covered in chemical oceans, gaseous atmospheres, and unstable tectonic activities. Normally loners by nature, it'd be common for a Tsvìet to not meet another for years. 
Through evolution, they developed bio luminescent features in the form of glowing eyes and prehensile tendrils along their backs with a glowing bulbous object on the end. That, and the natural components of chemical trailing similar to ants helped them navigate the thousands of miles of natural and artificial tunnels.

Life was not easy here. Food was scarce, forcing them to evolve to be less energy consuming while developing digestive systems that could quite literally absorb energy from damn near anything except iron and other metals.

In rare instances, tiny communities would gather around heat sources, such as magma pits and heat vents. Through thousands of years, these communities would develop incredibly durable body features such as sub-dermal armor plates resistant to heat, pressure and radiation.
Note: Traits that exist even until now. Tsvìets can practically swim for several minutes through lava, the act alone showing their extreme durability and superhuman strength due to the difference b/w lava and water. Also, radiation from direct exposure to nuclear explosions and the sun out in space have little to negligible effect on them.

Cave ins were a constant danger in their daily life, as well as spontaneous volcanic eruptions, infighting for the extremely few and very rare males every hundred years, and lack of food materials. 

Truly, this was a tough species destined for an eternity of hardship or eventual extinction.

None know exactly when she appeared, or from where, but the current Queen, a pure white luminescent being in their image with magenta eyes and features, came forth from the hottest tunnels which were avoided as these were deep within the mantle of the planet where cave ins were as common as the darkness of the tunnels above.

With her arrival, she brought sapience. Unknown to the Tsvìets, they never displayed greater intelligence due to an inherent genetic anomaly that targeted their brains and memories. Unknown to them until much later, the cause of this was that their bodies didn't break what they ate down into chemicals but energy particles itself and as the food was extremely scarce and one would go months or years without eating, their own body was converting their brain power and memories into energy to keep them alive in the hellish conditions of their lives. 

The consumption of a Tsvìet killed for mating rights or any other reason was so rare that many did not notice anything different from eating minerals.

The Queen had taught them a way to not only greatly replenish their internal energy core but to reverse the brain and memory damage as well.
This process became known as BLD, or 'Blading'. 

Of course, the Queen knew this had to be spread to the people slowly else they would devour each other and she would no longer have a species. She quickly took over communities of thousands within a decade, displaying strength, speed, and intelligence that was unheard of for the people. 
She became a leader, a shepherd to a lost flock, the wind filling the sails of a listless ship. Everyone wanted to become like her and with her teachings, they developed systems and rules to protect their young and feed the strong. 
Note: The Tsvìets do not share the same idea of 'death' as humans and most species. As long as their memories live on, they are considered alive. Blading is a sacred aspect of their society as it passes down to the receiver everything that the giver was and is in life, from inherited traits to memories.

It was still a brutal few millennia for the Tsvìets. Selective breeding regulations were enforced and the old or dying were taught to willingly give their bodies and energy up to be Bladed by their children. This ensured that the parent mother would do everything in her power in life to make sure her child, the future of their people, her legacy, would live on, becoming stronger then she had ever been.
Note: At this moment, a Tsvìet woman's lifespan is about 38 human standard years, almost half of that being the raising and caring of her child(ren). By the end of this entry, their lifespan will average around 700 human standard years.

The males were stronger and longer lived and would usually have a few thousand children in their time before passing on. Whichever females Bladed their bodies and energy would have a son the next time they had a child, a system of nature preserving the people. 

These Males were powerful figures and were cherished above all but the Queen as the species' survival depended on the couple dozen that existed among the tens of thousands of females. SING placed a heavy emphasis on making them powerful and protected, and the children fed and protected.
Many ignorant beings would think the common woman was a second rate citizen or something but such concepts can not exist in a society striving to just survive. The woman was the most numerous and versatile and as horrific as it might sound, expendable as well.

Over the next thousands of years of this harsh cycle of existence, intelligence had been created and expanded upon. The Tsvìets had long been crippled by their brain leeching bodies but as Blading helped reverse the damage, the attention to details their short-term memory selves had developed for so long proved to come in handy now that they had higher processing power. A 'photographic memory' trait was within everyone and inheritable to children as well. With SING's aid, they had begun thinking outside of surviving the day.

Artists had inadvertently come about and from the desire to apply their art to larger stages for the benefit of the people, architecture was born and from that, the need for physics and mathematics and geological sciences. The errors were plentiful but with their brain power jaded by eons of 'learn or die', they were quick to understand what worked and what could make it work better and faster.

Their caves became supported with structures to prevent cave ins, artificial vents were made to relieve pockets of pressure to prevent incidents, etc. It was small but it was noticeable.

Finally, a day came when SING broke through the rock to the surface. In the millennia past, the planet had stabilized a little bit more though it was still inhospitable to almost any species out there. Humans wouldn't live a minute on it.
The sky was a strange purple as the light from the blue sun their planet orbited tried to pierce through the red clouds of ash and gas.
It was a color none had ever seen before.
Upon breaking to the surface, it would be years before the Tsvìets could create any sort of uniformity. The only food was plentiful but very dangerous to catch as it'd evolved on the horrid surface and was just as accustomed to fighting everyday for its life as the Tsvìets were. They were great, armored beasts atleast five meters tall and five times longer, like an armored bull from hell with the head of a crocodile and a tail to match, and could spew a gaseous cloud from their mouths and pores over their body which would ignite with a spark.

Upon first hunting it, a dozen Tsvìets were killed, forcing SING to take it on by herself. Upon proving that her strength was greater, she took her time with the beast, attacking its body in numerous places for her people to learn the best ways to kill it. After it was slain, and with proper rationing, it fed a thousand Tsvìets. All was eaten, from the flesh to the bones.

SING wanted this as it provided another benefit. Blading didn't just absorb the energy in a more efficient manner to reverse the drain on their brain power but assimilated specific genetic traits from the food. This has to be a conscious effort on their part. Of the thousand, many focused on what part of the beast they wanted and within days, many experience rapid bone hardening and growth with spikes protruding from some parts of their bodies that could spew forth the same flammable gases.

Other chose the beast's quick regeneration as when they fought it, the beast could heal from a stab to the eye in minutes and had even regrew a foot in just as much a time. The regeneration was great for the hunters but it consumed energy at a quicker rate.

Many also further developed their eye sight, greatly enhancing their sight from the near blindness they had from eons in the dark. Where once they could 'see' using their other senses or with their eyes in very low light, now they could view the world around them with greater clarity and range. It was with this new vision that they had beheld themselves and their Queen in something Humans could comprehend.

They were all somewhat Humanoid females, skin tough looking like marble and a pale grey. All were very lean yet muscled in ways abnormal to many humanoids, and they had sub-dermal armored plates pressed outwards from within their skin. Some had bone protrusions from their limbs in the form of knuckle spikes or elbow and knee spikes while others had a short protruding collar around their neck that looked strong enough to tank an explosion. All of them had long, black hair dirtied and messy from never washing it. Each strand looked as thick as metal wires. Upon their backs were on average, a dozen tendrils poking outwards with the shortest on bottom and longest on top. Some of their tendril bulbs glowed blue while others were red or green.....not that they even had a name for these colors except red. Their humanoids appearances came from the two legs and two arms, each covered in sub-dermal armor with powerful corded muscles underneath. Their chests looked armored as well, hosting a pair of mammaries that weren't large as none of the hunting parties were nursing mothers.

The males were a bit different as their skeletal growth was more severe. Spikes to be used offensively and defensively grew along their limbs while the sub-dermal plates along their torso and chest and back grew out from the skin into a second set of ribs, chest cavity, etc. and was soon filled in by more muscle mass with a thin layer of skin covering the bones.They grew much more stronger to the point only the Queen could overpower one.

Their Queen was a different story. Her skin and hair were the purest white, like she was absent of color, and her eyes and tendril bulbs were like a mixture of the red and white colors. She looked...healthier, fuller, and all-around more grander than them. She was at the least two heads taller as well, even almost as tall as the males.
Note: At this point, Tsvìet females are about six feet tall, males are seven, and SING is six feet, seven inches. As for weight, on average, they are about 900 lbs, 1800 lbs, and 2300 lbs respectively.

With their new attributes and knowledge, SING built them into a more formidable community and led them through a systematic take-over of the whole world. Across the seas on rock and metal boats, through the air on hides that caught the uplifting hot gases, and through the tunnels of other communities, she led them into subjugating their underdeveloped neighbors, killing and Blading all who defied her, adopting the ones who bowed, who were children, or were males who SING overpowered. The great beasts from before whom SING named 'REXORS', were hunted to almost extinction. To prevent this, SING taught her people the idea of breeding them for food, so the last REXORS were quarantined into a set of valleys to live without fear of being hunted until their numbers grew too much and had to be culled. 

The campaign to unify the Tsvìets took a few thousand years at which time, many properties had been discovered such as basic technology based on steam, gas, and geothermal energy. The inventions were simple in their nature and designs, though usually over-robust. It's similar to the industrial age of Humanity but with things made from rocks, ores, and metals that, many times, had to be forged in the lava pits and molded into shape with a Tsvìet's bare hands.

With their memory problems all but gone, the Tsvìets had noticed another thing about Blading, that being the assimilation of memories. It became a fond past time for mothers to remove one of their fingers to feed to their children at a young age to speed along their brain growth and understanding of modern Tsvìet concepts such as love, survival, family, and loyalty. The future generations grew smarter faster from this method and the quick maturity saw a rise in population. 

SING knew this would present a problem for food unless she wishes for her people to devour themselves.

Her answer came in the form of a massive metal rock several miles long and wide falling from the sky. What the Tsvìets didn't comprehend was that this 'rock' was actually a massive spaceship damaged in a battle above their planet.

What made their situation even more dire was that this ship had crashed among the valleys where they kept the REXORS. Scouts would come in from posts later in the day's cycle of how the REXORS were crushed to a number of a few dozen, a tremendous blow on the Tsvìets' food supply that was already strained.

What else, the scouts had brought with them a few strange beings that had 'ventured out from the many tunnels within the rock.'
As SING Bladed them, knowledge utterly alien to her became hers to use. The aliens' name- 'BOolrk' (pro. 'Boa'-'oo'-'lur'-'kish'), anatomy, languages, dialects, weapons, ships, homeworld and colony worlds, allies and enemies, and even this alien's own personal life.

It had little to none. This amorphous blob vaguely resembling an octopus to a human, differing with a mouth on the outer portion of its head, was part of a Hive Mind. The information took an hour to disseminate and with it, she had her scouts gather anymore bodies they could find. For the next few days, per her instructions to avoid the possibly active weapons of the ship, around a hundred more octopus blobs were found without going into the ship to look for them.

The bodies were spread out among a few thousand and with the acquired knowledge of this species' engineers and warriors, the Tsvìets created a small Hive between those that ate of the aliens and they made their Queen the center of the link. 

SING spent the next week training with the warriors and their new attributes until they were as unified like it was their nature.
The Queen had a grand vision while she had gone over the alien memories. There were an innumerable number of stars and planets out there, hiding away from them behind their world's toxic clouds. The Queen wanted her people to spread among those distant worlds, to be freed from the slow extinction they were heading towards.

With her vision understood and spread to her people, she created a war party and stormed the crashed ship. Point defense laser turrets opened up on them and many were struck down in seconds, it taking a few hits for a Tsvìet to explode. To the Tsvìets' terror, the Queen was struck down but unlike the body exploding like with what happened to the others, she was barely harmed. 

She continued the charge on her own, avoiding several laser bolts and practically slapping away the ones that did hit her; any burn marks healing in moments. She'd jumped dozens of meters upon the first turret and ripped the cannons right from their mounts. Due to how close she was, the other turrets were incapable of training on her and she jumped and climbed to a dozen turrets within the next three minutes, ripping apart each one with cold, determined malice.

The way opened, the rest of the war party charged into the dark depths of the ship. The amorphous blobs hoped to use the dark corridors that they knew to their advantage but the Tsvìets were unrivaled in fighting and moving in the dark and had the reaction speed born from dodging spontaneous gas explosions and cave ins to help them avoid and move around static defenses. Even the few power suits the aliens had for frontline fighting were torn limb from limb by the unnatural, superhuman strength of the Tsvìets. 
Note: At this point, Tsvìet females can overhead press ten tons thirty times, Males can do fifty tons, and SING 70 tons, both thirty times.

It didn't help that unlike their much larger point-defense counterparts, the handheld laser rifles of the BOolrk were much less effective against the naturally toughened plates under the Tsvìets' skin, dispersing the heat of the bolts better than the aliens' own armor systems did.

It took many days to clear the ship as the Tsvìets hunted the aliens day and night, the knowledge of the ship's interior layout, troop makeup, weapon varieties, onboard automated defenses, terminal and bulkhead codes, etc. becoming more and more exploited the more the war party Bladed their kills. To aid them, the Tsvìets used their knowledge of the ship to disable any generators and onboard weapon systems, as well as jettisoning numerous parts to allow the horrible planet's atmosphere to circulate throughout the ship.

By the end of the week, SING herself had personally slew the hive mind of the BOolrk in what several called 'a flashy and booming battle' and Bladed it. This hive mind was one of many within the divided species. This ship had been the aliens' flagship of this colony fleet sent to start a new hive as there were three planets in system capable of supporting agriculture and BOolrk civilization. This ship was the last of the fleet and as the biggest, it was equipped with onboard mineral conversion plants and a factory for reproducing parts for the flagship's maintenance, as well as weapons and fuel.

The flagship was hit by a barrage from a rival hive mind's fleet in a surprise attack, critically wounding the ship and sending it free-falling towards a planet no BOolrk would ever try colonizing or mining- the Tsvìets' homeworld.
 
The BOolrk had no idea of any life living on this planet. They would justly believe that their rivals crashing on this planet would meet their doom. They had no idea the Tsvìets existed, nor that they could learn everything about them from eating the corpses of the BOolrk.

Having knowledge of the alien's scientific concepts and their military capabilities, as well as a schedule for their colonizing speeds, and seeing as she has recently come into ownership of a large ship capable of producing parts to repair a fleet-much more, make one, SING decided that she wasn't going to let that rival hive mind have her star system's precious planets.

All she needed was time and patience. She had plenty of both.