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Star Wars: Evolution of the Rogue Zerg



Chapter One



Time Period: 20 years before the planet fall of Helska.



“And that my children, is our entire ancestral story that has been reveled to me,” the Hive Mind spoke through his telepathic link with underlings. Hive Mind had just finished telling all the underlings the story of their ancestor – Zazs – and how they had come to be where they are.

“My children,” Mind spoke up, “You must all know of your place in the Hive. For all the years of continuous space travel we have endured, through my farseeing, I have finally discovered a habitable galaxy and planet!”

All the underlings at once became rambunctious and amazed at such news. Finally after all the decades of no planet, no land… no home, they might be the first generation that would see such a thing.

“Mmmminnnnnd,” the Zerg Queen spoke up using the Zerg guttural language instead of telepathy, “Howwwwwww can you beeeeeeee so sure of yourrrrrrrrrrrr discoveryyyyyyyy,” she said through her massive incisor teeth, which gave her an accent, “Howwwwwwwww do you know thattttttttttt it is not just another lifelesssssssss rock?”

The Queen’s enormous girth of a flying worm may have been intimidating, but Mind was the leader of the colony, not her.

“How, you ask? Because I have sensed the presence of life! That is how!” Mind this time used his large stereophonic voice, so he could display his dominance as the leader. He had to, even if the underlings had begun to evolve their own intelligence enough to speak a language, they still needed to be shown who was boss.

“Wellllllllllllllll,” Queen replied, “Ifffffffff this is truuuuuuuuuue, then this will havvvvvvvvvvvve been the largest breakthrough in our races hissssssssssstory.”

Mind then proceeded to dismiss the underlings from the Hive chamber.   

“Mmmmminnnnnnd,” the Queen began to say before she left the chamber, “I hoooooooooooope that what you have found is realllllllllllllll.”

“I am certain it is Madam, not only have I sensed it, but I have had visions of our races new life on it.”

“Mmmmminnnnnnnd, you know that meansssssssssss you will sleep soon? The visionssssssssssssss.

“Yes, I am aware. But I have estimated that it will be another 40 years before that happens.”

“Annnnnnnnnnd? What ifffffffffff your estimation is innnnnnnnncorrect?”

“Then let the Force spare you and the underlings. Without my presence before you all can function as a civilized community, all the restrictions I have put on you will break and all you’ll be are mindless killing machines.” It was true. Without him, they would all become as hostile as they were before Zazs’ death.

“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,” the Queen scowled, “I alwaysssssssssss thought we were supposssssssssssssed to follow Zazs’ orderssssssssssssss.”

“We are… in a non-violent way,” Mind replied

The Queen then hovered out of the chamber, leaving Mind organically bound to the Hive walls by fleshy cords. He continued to monitor the underlings telepathically. Healing hurt ones, and entertaining newborns with stories, all from a long distance away.

As the light illuminated by the Hive began to dim as sign of slumber, Mind decided to sleep as well that night.

His dream was filled with an amazing dream. A dream of happiness. He saw his people, his underling children, living happy lives together in a safe cavern. He saw them interacting with other alien species. He saw an inevitable apocalypse rain over the colony. He saw one underling – The Arbiter – restore their race again. He saw his own death through the Arbiter’s protection. He saw numerous aliens befriend the Arbiter and help him on his journey.

All Mind saw in his dream was hope.

That morning, Mind awoke with tears engulfing his eye for a body. In his dream, his race had called themselves the Rogue Zerg for some reason. He thought that it must be because they found themselves independent from their murderous ancestors. So that afternoon, Mind announced to the colony what they would call themselves when they establish alien contact. Just like he had expected, they voted on the name they liked the most.

That name was the Rogue Zerg.