Looking back

Since the day I entered this Universe, I have been wondering about the reason for being here.

What the Kha'ak Hive was told, was that the Hive was banned. Now, I am not so sure anymore.
Resources in the Kha'ak sectors are diminishing. Our Nividium is nearly gone. And when our future was dark, we were invaded by the Paranid, who stole our precious resources. Any race would retaliate.

But now that our resources are nearly gone, the Kha'ak have no choice but to find another space to live. We used up most of the remainder of the Nividium to develop and build the technology to make this possible, and now are desperately searching for a place to live. But we are fought all the way by every race in this universe.

From what I have learned while being here, is that the Paranid invaded our territory, but the other races were not aware of this. We retaliated, and this must have been seen by all as an aggressive act towards this universe. Fear of the unknown must have made that easy. Now, all races are fighting us, on sight.

We tried to contact the other races, but to no avail. We were misunderstood, murdered and hunted. They do not speak our language, and it cannot be handled by their translators.

Understand the way a Hive operates… The Queen is the leader. We have evolved in a very specialized way. Our Queen leads, and is the Mind and Consiousness of the Hive. The rest of the Kha'ak are what you would call 'cells' or 'limbs'. We get our orders and we do. In such a state, our minds are not evolved enough to understand the reasons why nor to question our orders.

Whenever a Queen dies, a new Queen rises and takes over the responsibilities. It takes time for her to adapt and grow, but eventually the chaos in the Hive subsides and order is restored. During that time, other possible Queens will try to rise too, and it is a time of uncertainty and war. This has a function. It roots out the weak and the surviving Hive members need less resources. Also the hierarchy is easier to restore, controlled by the new Queen.

When our Hive-Queen died, a similar thing happened. But there were no other Queens to take control. As the Queen's control fell away the strongest remaining Kha'ak tried to take control. But with a mind far less developed than that of the usual Queens-to-be, it was too much. That, and because the battle added so much to the confusion, made it simply impossible for any Kha'ak to restore order at that time. Only when most of the Hive had already died, some kind of order could be restored.

By that time, so many Kha'ak had been slaughtered, that the battle was lost. I was the last Warrior, with just a few of Kha'ak drones. And I made it out of there... I never understood why I survived. Now I believe I know the reason...