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We are grown, not built.
Living hulls, beating chambers and a reef of minds in agreement.
Captains21
Captain dossier · captain · Tidecaller
The Hydromancer
The Hydromancer’s milky blue crown hangs above a face partly hidden by pale trailing tissue. His brood was shaped for the violent weather of gas giants, where pressure, current…
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Captain dossier · captain · Carapace
Chitin-Lord Pax
Pax presents a smooth, dark shell and a pair of green compound eyes to visitors. He is proud of the chitin he has grown, both on his own body and across Carapace, where layered…
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Captain dossier · captain · Infestation
The Pollinator
The Pollinator’s paired, featherlike crowns spread above a cluster of small dark eyes. Their many senses make them attentive to movement through a crowded field, and they have…
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Captain dossier · captain · Throne Organism
Queen Apex
Apex’s broad, scarred head gives her a view in several directions, an arrangement she considers appropriate for a queen whose ambitions extend well beyond her present territory…
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Captain dossier · captain · Spore Crown
Senior Broodmother Ysta
Ysta’s wrinkled face creases into a broad smile when she sees life take hold where an enemy expected only bare metal. The rounded forms gathered over her head and shoulders are…
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Captain dossier · lord · Communion Bloom
Spore-Priest Kresh
Kresh’s pale, layered crown shelters a face threaded with growth and bright green eyes. Among the faithful, their appearance is taken as a sign of closeness to the drifting life…
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Captain dossier · lord · Quiet Stitch
Brood-of-Nine Mesh
Nine eyes turn in different directions above Mesh’s frilled collar, and nine opinions are rarely far behind. The brood shares one body, but sharing a body has never obliged them…
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Captain dossier · lord · Sloughed Carapace
Molt-Prince Mol-Marrow
Mol-Marrow emerged from the appointed molt with a crown of blunt spines and a face the hive’s aestheticists could not classify. They examined every ridge, compared every…
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Captain dossier · lord · Dethroned Petal
Hive-Aristocrat Okra
A pale face peers out beneath Okra’s purple frills, while scarred tissue marks the side where their sister struck during a duel for standing. The court witnessed the end, accepted…
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Captain dossier · lord · Iridescent Bough
Chitin-Artist Oloth
Light moves across Oloth’s layered crest in blue, violet, and green. They developed the colors through years of patient cultivation, adjusting the texture of each plate until the…
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Captain dossier · lord · Loud Hatchery
Swarm-Coordinator Omra
Omra’s bright stalked eyes can follow several broods at once, a talent that brought them a coveted appointment. Eight broods were assigned to their care. The other four arrived as…
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Captain dossier · lord · Pollen of the Last Court
The Orchid Widow
The Widow carries a pale flower beside their pointed green face, a small token from a court that no longer exists. Its hive was consumed by a rival, and the survivors were so…
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Captain dossier · lord · Hatchery Surplus
Pale Decantation
The hatchery marked Pale Decantation with tally strokes instead of a name. Their pale, folded body was one among many, counted for a purpose that shifted before anyone could…
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Captain dossier · lord · Mistake Returning
Growth-Engineer Pesh
Pesh has a round, tooth-lined mouth and an engineer’s habit of inspecting every unexpected result before calling it a failure. During one project, tissue intended to breathe…
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Captain dossier · lord · Chrysalis
Broodkeeper Thal
Thal’s scarred blue-gray face is crowded with teeth, and their body bears the traces of wounds survived. They consider each scar an account of a lesson: where an attacker struck…
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Captain dossier · lord · Refused Cathedral
Molt-Princess Thren
Thren’s amber shell has begun to show its age. The great green eyes beneath it remain watchful, though the hive expected Thren to surrender that particular self during the final…
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Captain dossier · lord · Sunken Cradle
Broodkeeper Vesh
Vesh’s round face is ringed with striped spines, and their heavy eyes seem to look past whoever stands before them. They are often remembering the cradle-world where their brood…
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Captain dossier · lord · Patient Inhalation
Spore-Tactician Xith
Xith taught successive generations how to consider a spore-cloud: where it might drift, what it might encounter, and how long its effects could outlast the moment of release…
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Captain dossier · lord · Disowned Batch
Spawn-Captain Yara
Yara’s skin is a patchwork joined by neat seams, each patch grafted from a sister who did not survive. Their birth hive called the whole batch impure. The judgment fell on all of…
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Captain dossier · lord · Severed Lattice
Spawn-of-Six Yssil
Yssil was the smallest of seven. The broodmother kept the runt and let the six others be culled, and she never explained the choice. Yssil has supplied an explanation of their…
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Captain dossier · leader · Hivemother
Matron Zix
Small bodies cling to Zix’s fur and gather around the many black eyes of their matron. They are not ornaments. Each carries a fragment of her attention, and each returns with news…
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Hulls21
Hull registry · Tier 5
Tidecaller
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Hull registry · Tier 5
Carapace
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Hull registry · Tier 5
Infestation
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Throne Organism
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Hull registry · Tier 4
Spore Crown
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Communion Bloom
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Hull registry · Tier 6
Quiet Stitch
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Sloughed Carapace
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Hull registry · Tier 8
Dethroned Petal
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Iridescent Bough
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Loud Hatchery
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Hull registry · Tier 8
Pollen of the Last Court
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Hull registry · Tier 6
Hatchery Surplus
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Mistake Returning
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Chrysalis
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Hull registry · Tier 8
Refused Cathedral
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Hull registry · Tier 8
Sunken Cradle
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Patient Inhalation
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Disowned Batch
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Hull registry · Tier 7
Severed Lattice
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Hull registry · Tier 8
Hivemother
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