The hivemind is conquering for me?

Six wasted no time after my request and dived downwards before sprinting up directly beneath me with her maw wide open. All of a sudden, I was engulfed by Six and hit a barrier at the back of her throat that prevented me from falling further into her.

I then heard her breach the water with quite some speed. I was awaiting for a moment the return to the water, but it never came and after a short moment, I found my balance on the cartilage on the bottom of her mouth.

Making my way towards her teeth, She opened her maw slightly to show me that she was flying! The front arm like fins were now extended to her side as she was gliding ever upwards towards space.

Knowing my constant urge to learn things, Six relayed to me before I even asked. "I use Gyrokinesis to make myself fly Apollo. From what I have seen from Orchids shared observations, you are on the right track with your learning. Keep doing what you are doing, you should be able to start floating soon.

I smiled hearing that, I was glad my training was in fact the correct approach, but another thought came into my head as we neared space. "Um, six, I don't have my space suit." As soon as I said that, a membranous clear barrier wrapped around six's body.

"There will be more than enough air in my body to reach the ship Apollo, don't worry." She relayed calmly. A few moments later, we broke through the planet's atmosphere and into space.

Orbiting the planet, there was only one extra large 25km long ship that was a lot more rounded than the usual. Six picked up considerable speed as she made her way to the ship and docked herself into a large valve that opened on her proximity.

As the valve behind her closed, the room became filled with water, but after a quick command, began draining again. After the water was gone, Six opened her jaw and allowed me to jump out.

Leaving her mouth, I looked around at the basic room and felt a sense of familiarity hit me. The walls moving slightly as the ship 'breathed' had a relaxing effect on me now. I was safe, inside of a hive creature, away from all that gross ocean.

Looking around the cylindrical room I was in, I noticed it was empty of pretty much anything. That made sense though. It was just a place for Six to sleep comfortably while Space faring. After having a look around, I climbed back up on Six's head and began using my Thermokinesis to dry my clothes.

We spent the next few hours talking about Six and how she runs her fleets. With the added element of being able to attack and be attacked from all sides while in the water, her warriors, freethinkers and agitators all had to be slightly smarter and stronger than the regular bunch and required a lot more thought process on both Jewel and Prime six when taking over and directing orders.

Prime six even spoke about battle tactics in ocean warfare which was really appealing to me as the hive generally preferred the rush in masses strategy. It was simple on the mind and effective a lot of the time.

Eventually our talk of tactics brought us to the current system. "So you attempt to drain the planet of its water with your ships while you are attacking?" I asked, curiously. "Yes Apollo. WIth us dropping in the millions into the water while we extend down thousands of tubes into the water and begin draining.

On lesser planets with just lesser prey, this action is never counteracted and makes it easier for us when we find more resilient prey, we can just wait to suffocate them and then eat them, but with planets that have the capacity for space travel, we sometimes have to wait until they have taken a serious hit to their numbers before we can deploy them."

"Interesting, are there any planets in this system with those conditions met?" I asked, to which Six replied. "There is one with those conditions. They have space travel, but it seems very inefficient. Large cylindrical structures that break apart when they reach the atmosphere.

It appears from what the freethinkers have eaten, that the planet's inhabitants have only just recently begun taking its first steps into space. I suspect they were not even aware of other species existing on other planets or in the universe for they all seem beyond shocked when devoured that they were being invaded."

I thought for a moment before murmuring. "So they are a type zero civilization? Yeah they don't stand a chance. Sort of like how-" I was forced to stop speaking which made me become aware I was speaking. I felt curiosity through the link as Six asked.

"What is this type zero you mentioned? Is this something to do with your inherited memory?" I jumped off of her head, onto the floor and looked up at Six confused as I asked after she said that. "My what memory?" Suddenly the link cut off and even as I began asking if she was alright verbally, Six did not reply.

Six had made a mistake. Jewel had made it clear to every single bioform 'Do not bring up his inherited memory. Apollo does not seem aware of it considering he has had it since we first found him. Just allow him to continue to impress us with his intelligence.'

Six had a quick counsel with the other primes on how to proceed and decided to simply act like it never happened. "So what is a type zero civilisation Apollo?" She relayed like she had not been silent for the last five minutes.

I squinted my eyes at Six for a moment curiously, but decided to drop it as I didn't feel like making her uncomfortable again and responded to her question.

"A type zero civilisation I am referring to is a part of a scale to show how well a civilised society is doing and how they can still progress. It is usually measured in the amount of energy a civilisation may harness, but there are some other factors that show what type of civilisation they are."

Six was fascinated by this. She and the hive had a tendency to view all prey as the same, so to learn a little bit about them from her mate was an entertaining experience. "Type Zero's have not yet managed to harness all the energy their planets can create. These types of civilisations are estimated to be the most common and the one that most of the time fails. As a boon of technology washes over the type zero civilisation. advancements in all fields elevate and they even begin to explore their surrounding space, possibly colonising their moons if they have any. At this point, nuclear power often becomes an important factor in their growth and a lot of the time, the civilization ends before it can progress by destroying itself with its nuclear arsenal."

I then turned to Six as I explained. "You know other species' aren't as perfect as you are love, Infighting and grabs for power are common and lead to the extinction of entire planets." Prime six, acting as the will of the hive relayed her understanding of this point.

The hive have come across countless irradiated planets that they have devoured, so they understood how common it actually was. "So considering that the planet you mentioned is only just able to get into space from your description, I would consider it a type zero."

"What tier would we be Apollo?" Prime six asked curiously, excited to know how she fits into her mates categorisation, causing me to frown in confusion. "Ummm. I don't think you are any tier my love. The hive is not a sentient organised society. You are a giant predatory life form that devours everything in its wake and sees everything else as prey with only two goals on your mind. Consume all the biomass you can and mate with me. If I were to categorise you as anything, you would be a universal natural disaster. But a cute one so it's ok."

I then walked over and began stroking the side of her face. "Though I suppose I could give you some examples of the other tiers so you have a close estimation in your own mind if you want?"

Prime six was still getting over being called a cute natural disaster so she meekly relayed her affirmation. "Type one is when a civilisation uses all the power a planet gets from its star so they have no need for other types of power, though they can of course still use them. I haven't actually seen a type one yet, but I have seen a type two. Spartari.

Type two's can harness the entire power of a sun and use its energy in a large scale. Type two usually leave their home solar systems at this point in the attempts to become a type 3. If anything Spartari is a 2.5 because they harness multiple stars and have a large empire.

A type three civilisation would be that of the Ker'mins. They can harness the power of entire galaxies, using them for incredible feats of ingenuity. And a type four civilisation is where a civilisation can harness the entire universe's power. Of course that has not happened here of course or we would know about it. And there are tiers above type 4, but that gets into the theory of multiverses and harnessing the power of collective universes. That is about as much information I have on that Six, so what do you think you might be? Six?"

Jewel had been slowly getting better, though she was still feeling too much pleasure to function properly, and had allowed herself to listen and observe Apollo today in the back of her mind while in her 'autopilot mode.' But what he had just said was brought to the forefront and opened up a new thought of possibility for her. A universe beyond this ever-growing one? Multiple universes? Infinite Biomass?

Totally oblivious as I just thought I was telling Six some fun information, I had accidentally just set a new Objective for my mate that she was now determined to achieve... Enjoy exclusive content from My Virtual Library Empire