A story idea about civilization wars

[ThrillingHuman]

So I had this setting: we have several races tthat are intelligent and they vie for supremacy on the planet.
One if them is a zerg-like hivemind.
So the zerg hive intelligence decides to adopt the following strategy: it becomes technology. Like, the races don't even know that the bugs are intelligent and they build their infrastructure around them, create factories dedicated to making more of them, eventually bugs are everywhere - even on persons there are dozens.
Then the races become redundant for further development of the bugs, so off everyone goes.
I don't know what I was going to do with it.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[Ai-chan]

So I had this setting: we have several races tthat are intelligent and they vie for supremacy on the planet.
One if them is a zerg-like hivemind.
So the zerg hive intelligence decides to adopt the following strategy: it becomes technology. Like, the races don't even know that the bugs are intelligent and they build their infrastructure around them, create factories dedicated to making more of them, eventually bugs are everywhere - even on persons there are dozens.
Then the races become redundant for further development of the bugs, so off everyone goes.
I don't know what I was going to do with it.

It's similar to the story of Parasite Eve (the movie).

Basically, long, long ago in the primordial age when there were only single-celled organisms, mitochondria tried to invade a single celled organism and eat them from the inside. But something went wrong and the mitochondria ended up being enslaved by the organism instead, with part of its DNA stolen by the cell it invaded. The mitochondria ended up being used as power source for the single cell. With much greater energy, the single cell managed to become multicell organism. Supposedly, we're closer in genetics to a sea cucumber than to our own mitochondria.

Now to present day, mitochondria managed to realize "Hey, we're not supposed to be inside this thing!" and so they decided to manipulate their meatsuits into killing themselves.

 

[georgelee5786]

...I'm confused

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Sounds like a cross between the Borg from Star Trek and Replicators from Stargate.

 

[NotaNuffian]

So insect calamity got a free evo card into the grey goo?

I thought the swamp calamity only has a few variants (insect, rats, robots, undead due to their rapid reproduction) and you decide to double up?

So... does the bugs gain metal exoskeletons and ways to infect digital space but also not affected by EMPs?

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

How about just writing Fly vs Mosquito.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

So I had this setting: we have several races tthat are intelligent and they vie for supremacy on the planet.
One if them is a zerg-like hivemind.
So the zerg hive intelligence decides to adopt the following strategy: it becomes technology. Like, the races don't even know that the bugs are intelligent and they build their infrastructure around them, create factories dedicated to making more of them, eventually bugs are everywhere - even on persons there are dozens.
Then the races become redundant for further development of the bugs, so off everyone goes.
I don't know what I was going to do with it.

Read Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, you should get a few ideas from it

 

[Nafew]

Honestly.... I'm confused