>>5967700 A wave of information floods into the spheres. Endless tides of great radio receiving immobiles absorb the information. Immediately lycaris orders a ban on sending anything back. The untuned reveal themselves foolishly. The Ecology must remain unknown. To send proof of their collective will would be foolishness. So they shall remain as seemingly stupid and unreactive beasts.
Asphodel talks back. Scrying the network she brings to Lycaris images of the progress of man. Sprawling metropoli, great works of engineering and immense efficiency in harvesting the energy and resources of the many words.
Lycaris looks back to her and responds with images of the slums of the corperates, the stagnant and unchanging cities across the galaxy and of the aggression of the marching men towards Asphodel’s little sister upon the forest world. Crushed underfoot and strangled in the womb.
There is progress yes. But all things not growing decay. And it is only a matter of time before the rot of the civilizations festers anew. And they turn on their worlds, choking the possibilities of evolution.
>action 1: scatter seedsSeed a new world
>action 2: technology, Node Cultists With the illumination of the galaxy the ecology has had to come to terms with how unusual it is. So many fewer hiveminds than it had previously assumed… but with such a standard fare of individuality there comes a fine boon to be found. A boon of effective, independent minds. Not held back in their decisions by instinct or crowd momentum. But such minds are not so independent as to be immune to suggestions…
Therefore a new innovation upon the previous technology of psionic node glands is developed. Tapping into the psionic potential of the other races (particularly the humans. Who are the most widespread and who the technology is already developed to target) the mind of a sentient can be molded via infection and psionic suggestion to become amicable to the will of the Ecology.
Few will ever know or understand the nature of their master save for those who have undergone full gland implantation. But even still these new cultists have been altered on a genetic level to be simultaneously weak to suggestion and also capable of organizing their own latent psionic abilities to command and organize gland organisms.
On more advanced worlds these unlocked psionics will undergo implantation to become powerful spreaders of the Ecology. New breeds of mystic and prophet set on spreading various gospels from natural harmony to survival of the fittest. All designed to create conditions favourable to the ecology.
But on primitive worlds these psionics become trusted shamans. Guiding the tribes and taming the beasts of the wild. These new cultists are not all integrated with glands. Resulting in them being able to become surprisingly effective guerrilla fighters. Where the hivemind practices strategy the shamans practice tactics.