Mita needed a special item called a Cooling Hive to unleash a Flood Disaster.
Cooling Hives were made by engineering insects from the Dark Domain Insectoids. They ranged in size from 50 centimeters to 5 meters in diameter. Thanks to the spatial technology used in their construction, even the smallest, 50-centimeter model could hold 100,000 ordinary insects and a hundred adult insects. Tossing a maximum-sized Cooling Hive at a surface civilization on the level of the Ulysses civilization would mean nothing less than a merciless slaughter.
The fleet Mita had dispatched this time hadn't brought any of the largest Cooling Hives, but it had brought over a hundred medium-sized ones. That was more than enough to unleash a "Flood Disaster" on a scale of over a hundred million.
Never underestimate the number one hundred million.
The Dark Domain Insects were most terrifying for two reasons: their ability to evolve and their ability to reproduce!
If an invaded civilization couldn't come up with an effective way to exterminate them, the Dark Domain Insects would mercilessly devour everything they could digest to satisfy their most primal desires. As they did, their numbers would swell dramatically, growing from one hundred million to two hundred million, then four hundred million, then tens of billions or more, until they'd eaten the entire planet bare. Only then would they begin devouring one another.
Beginning with destruction and ending with destruction—that was the terror of a Flood Disaster.
"Commander Foster, all Cooling Hives have finished preheating!"
As Golden Valley Star appeared on the main screen in the fleet's command ship cockpit, an operator's voice rang in Foster's ear.
He gave a slight nod. "Release the probes. Have the Brain Insects accompanying us search the area as well. Once we've confirmed there are no ambushes, we'll advance on