Space bug castes overview
The Ruin are essentially interchangeable with something like the Tyranids in Warhammer 40,000 . Unlike the Tyranids, they have characters because that is more interesting to write about when writing an RTS campaign. Myriad "We are Myriad. Our numbers shall darken the skies of every world. In the end, we shall prevail. All other considerations are trivial." The Myriad is the gestalt consciousness of the Ruin. If every individual drone within the Swarm may be considered neurons that collectively form a brain, then the Myriad may be considered the higher functions of that brain. The Myriad is an alien mind to humanity, devoted to nothing more than conquering the universe and perfecting the Ruin into the ultimate form of life. They are the ultimate alchemists. For all intents and purposes, the Myriad is the Ruin. It derives all its desires from its constituent drones. Despite this, it has abstracted itself to the point where fawns over its drones like a parent does offspring, ...