XerKhon to Alina: "ah I see"
Sivtress to Rosdax: “ah you are a hero, a Warrior, you must have high ranking in House Martael, are all of you heroes?"
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Kilysa speaks secretly to her mom & sister: “The story that Myranda told me is different in many ways, Im not certain Ymeror is telling the whole history or the truth.”
Rokarr to Kilysa: “I do not think it matters Kilysa, In the end those who are meant to rule shall do so.”
Zagara to her daughters: “It is near impossible to tell, both stories may indeed have some degree of truth, but without shared memories of that age we will never know for sure. In any case Myrsa is an honorable Queen, even in our own history only honorable Queens are ultimately successful.”
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Zagara to Myrsa: "It would indeed be more difficult to verbally describe our history, so I will show you parts of our history, if at any time you need to break from the illusion just let me know, I will go through the memories fairly quickly."
Suddenly it seemed as if everyone was standing a few meters above themselves looking at the scenery, next the area went dark a brief moment before an image of the galaxy they are currently in was in the middle for everyone to see as images of stars were floating all around everyone. The next instance it seemed as if they were moving at some unknown warp speed to a far far away location. When the warp stopped a different galaxy was presented, rapidly they zoomed in on a peculiar planet.
Finding themselves standing inside a Hive chamber they saw 2 ancient Formic Queens fighting to the death while surrounded by ancient Soldier & worker drones, one much older than the other, they looked more feral, more prehistoric then Zagara & her daughters. At the end of the battle the younger Queen stood over her mother & tore her head off. Holding her mother head in the air all Formics in the area lined up close to the victor awaiting her command.
Zagara: “This is Drokhan, a fierce fighter but also the first progressive Queen that we know of, this event happened around 2 million years in the past, when formic’s psionic awakening had just started, at this point you will notice that there are only 4 types of Formics, Queen, Male, Soldier, & worker, also at this time a Queen would only lay 1 Queen egg her whole life.”
The next scene everyone found themselves standing on a mountain witnessing a turning point in an intense battle between Drokhan’s Hive & another Formic hive that looked different, almost like a distant cousin of Formic’s. After they killed the enemy Queen Drokhan’s forces stormed the tunnels in the hill killing everything in their path & using their conquered foes bodies as nutrients for the new larvae to come, but Drokhan spared the enemy eggs & larvae & introduced them to her own brood trying to make all of her conquered enemies strengths her own. This mountain became Drokhan’s main lair.
Time jumped forward to when Drokhan seemed to be getting ready to face her own daughter in combat over leadership of the hive. Although an unexpected idea came to Drokhan, why should mother & daughter fight each other, so she talked her daughter out of fighting & convinced her that creating a joint hive would be more beneficial for both Queens.
Time spend up, This new joint hive swept the western continent until only Drokhans line of Queens remained. Slowly but surely afterwards, Drokhan’s hive engulfed the rest of the Formic world. Soon after her brood became the only brood on the planet, Drokhan died at the age of 528.
Time skipped to the early years of Formic’s space age showing the growth of advanced organic technology & various planets Formic’s discovered. Time skipped again to the Formics first encounter with humans on a planet the formic’s wanted to colonize.
Zagara: “these are known as humans, at this time in history formic’s believed that only hivemind beings were sentient, we did not understand that singular sentient beings existed, we thought these were simple creatures, though there form intrigued us as we had never seen such creatures. Though we were too late in realizing that they were sentient.”
Time skipped again to the Formic’s second human encounter on planet earth, as the battle played out Zagara explained that this was when they discovered that the humans were sentient thus they left them alone saddened that they had not realized this earlier.
Time jumped to the Formic High Queen & her plan to ensure the survival of the race as she was certain the humans would not stop their attacks. They would see a young Zagara who had barely started her own brood take a battle ship & leave her home as another Formic ship took off for another mission. The group would witness the battle that ended with the oblivion of the Formic’s home world.
They saw Zagara return to her world soon after the battle gripping the ashes that was once her home.
The next scene was the 12 moons of a gas giant that Zagara would call home for the next 800 years. Here she forged a new empire of Formic’s. Her feats of science greatly expanded the genetics of all Formic’s & introduced many new Formics to the hive. In this manner every formic rapidly mutated into new more powerful versions of their previous forms. New bio-ships were developed & a new Formic hierarchy was established.
Next the group watched 12 Massive living structures rise from their respective moons & set out on a campaign against the humans. Several human colonies fell to grueling battles as the Formics claimed them as their own, some victories were celebrated, others were grieved with the fall of 1 of Zagara’s daughters. They saw Kilysa hatch from her egg, Zagara’s last Queen egg.
They saw the Crusading Formics arrive at their second to last target, Planet Lusitania. Zagara’s fleet stopped facing a fleet composed of human & foreign Formic ships.
The group saw the meeting between Zagara & the foreign Formic Queen, & a few of the memories the foreign Queen shared with Zagara. They saw Andrew Wiggins help the Queen build her home on Planet Lusitania.
Afterwards the group saw Zagara split her fleet, most stayed with the Foreign Queen to advance the Formic race in that galaxy, the others left with Zagara. After seeing Zagara’s 2 hive carriers leave the galaxy the illusion stopped.
(I hope it is obvious that Ymeror intentionaly focused on the parts of Ghashyr history that make the Valxaryens seem as the greatest House - ie; the Galgatyens are a far more noble and glorious family, that's why Rysannox was not impressed.)
(Yes it is, I mostly think Myranda was telling more of truth.)
(Also notice how the Shyrites portray themselves as the victims of the Frontier War, while the Martaels - the guys you met first - did the opposite.)
(Yes I did notice that, Zagara figures that there is some truth in both stories but it’s difficult for Formic’s know for certain unless they cant look into people’s memories who actually witnessed the events surrounding the war.)