Year: 1845 A.D.
Planet: Zorus
Chapter 1: Origin of the brood
A long time ago in the Venicio sector, Goi system a planet named Zorus is housing many unorthodox and weird species, they evolve by consuming each others DNA. Species known as the Thonmites have ascended to the top of the food chain and many years later they remained the only species on the planet. They were diffirent from each other in many aspects, like Humans are with clothing, you wont see them wearing the same clothes too often, the same was with appearance and genome of Thonmite species. They began capturing the whole planet and evolving.
Chapter 2: Art of evolution
The Thonmite species has changed from diverse genomes into many similar ones and the Queens, the first strains that created the Brood were able to unite a certain amount of specimens to create their own swarms.
over 150 years later all Thonmites were loyal to many their Queens. Queens were in need of more land wich they didnt have, thus the Great War began. Only one swarm remained untouched by war, its Queen has evolved into a mind controling monster that is known today as the Broods Overmind.
Chapter 3: Unity
When the Brood Overmind started gaining more power, it evolved more and more strains of Queens ending with Brood mothers, the ones that control the army force on fronts and give birth to Thomnites, the Hive Queens wich maintain the Hives structural integrity and take care of drones and builders, the Swarm queens wich lead the flying Thomnites and maintained their evolution, and the Overlord Queens wich commanded all other Queens and always were loyal to the Overmind, the Brood is now created.
Chapter 4: Final frontier
"Space, the final frontier", the Brood has evolved creatures that can live in space environments and slowly began infesting other planets. The first goal was to infest the whole Goi system and eliminate all other life in it.
When doing so the Brood first encountered other sentient life, a small colony wich it assimilated. Soonly after the Brood was attacked with spaceships and didnt have any counters to it, thus having many lost specimens.
But the Brood still being the Brood quickly adapted to the enemy and assimilated theyre knowledge about space.
To be continued*
Swarms
Jurgan swarm controlled by cerberate known as The Overlord. @DarkPearl
The main swarm controlled by the Overmind
Creatures that are in Space environment
Lings - smallest creatures that serve as meatshields and protection for Lisks and other creatures above their swarm status
Broodling - The simplest DNA you can get, their eggs are in structures and hatch upon a non-Brood entity comes near, approx. 500,000 birthed every day, they also serve as food for lisks and bigger creatures
Mutaling - A succesor to Broodlings DNA, Tends to swarm around Queens, their only purpose is to protect Giant/Queen creatures. They mutate from broodling, mutation takes 2 days
Lisks - The group above Lings, 2nd lowest in the Brood hierarchy, used as main attacking force in most cases
Broodlisk - When attacking the last remaining survivors in the Goi system the Brood got repelled with a hivemind disruptor that caused chaos, 1 Swarm Queen remained on the battlefield and wanted to make more Broodlings to chase down the survivors, but due to the disruption and hostile environment the abomination known as Broodlisk was created. Approx. 50,000 birthed every day, their only purpose is to protect the Cerberates wich help the Overmind control the Brood
Brutalisk
The only known Thonmite to have red skin color, it has thick armor and is armed with 10 Hydraling cannons.
Approx. 5,600 birthed every day, they are the ones that protect Hive Queens while they venture out to infest other planets
Bigger or more specific creatures
Kraken
A more specific Thonmite that isnt meant for combat, it is more of a exploring unit that roams around freely without any consequences, but it still is connected to the Overmind to send information about new territory. Approx 20 birthed every day.
Hunter-Killer
The most dangerous non-leviathan classed Thonmite, it serves as a assasin and is used in small groups to destroy high priority targets from a fighter to a battlecruiser, not many have been seen by anyone because there are often no survivors, but bypassing ships have saw the pure chaos it can unleash. Approx. ??? birthed every ???
Leviathan/Queen class creatures
The Leviathan
The biggest Thonmite you will ever see, its tremendous firepower will destroy most of the existing enemies of the brood without them penetrating its thick carapace, if youre not scared of it you should go see a doctor, in the mental hospital... Approx. 1 birthed every week due to its size. Carries up to 7800 creatures or up to 11k tones