Chrysalis

Look, I don’t know what they expect me to say. You’d think I’d get better at this, since I’ve left messages for a few of the other castes, but it really isn’t the case.

You’re Soldiers. You Soldier. You get it, I get it, we all get it. In many ways, this was the easiest of all of the evolutions I designed for our species, all you had to do was get bigger and chunkier. All of the stuff I found useful for fighting up close, I made sure you would also get. Inner-carapace plating, healing gland, mutable muscles, all that good stuff.

I suppose if I had to say something, it would be this: Remember Grant. She was one of the first ants I ever trained myself, a member of the Council, and she died heroically to protect me from Garralosh.

Without her sacrifice, I would not have survived that battle, and all I did for the Colony after would never have occurred. I still wonder if it was worth it. A noble, intelligent and selfless ant like Grant, what would she have been able to achieve, had she lived?

In many ways, she epitomises what it means to be a Soldier for the Colony. You are the biggest, the strongest, the toughest. It’s your role to put yourself in harm's way so that others don’t have to. Where the fight is thickest, where the hunt is most intense, that is where you are to go.

I only ask that you make sure you come back.

It isn’t always possible, I know that, and it breaks my heart… but do your best.

And forget Leeroy. She was born stupid and not much has changed.

- Message from the Eldest to the Soldier caste.

tier eight demons, Torrifex and sisters, continues to be both unfruitful, and a massive pain in

in an ocean as we wander around, surrounded by an ocean of demon larvae who scratch and tear at each other in a neverending melee. Of

It’s exhausting.

compulsion love to group up, and once they start to do so, they gather an unstoppable momentum. The more they group up, the faster they run into more recruits, so the horde grows even faster. It all snowballs so fast into a roaming pack

hiding our targets, and despite our overwhelming strength, we lose a little bit of energy, and take a little bit of damage, during

rigours of drawn out combat. My muscles never get fatigued, my glands never

going out of fashion and even Crinis loses a lot of shadow flesh during each conflict. The two of them need time and Biomass to recover, one

but even then, strong

terrifying, especially on the third. Without the Vestibule, I’d be too tired, too

And I’m super strong!

back once the mess has died down. Not the Colony, though! We’ll seize the unprecedented

like a tier eight core, and we’ve been

Al, due to his nature as an eye

may have retreated deeper still. It’s possible Torrifex is hoping to lure you away from your base

that would suck. No way he figured out my Altar combo that

hedge. [The big moron seemed happy enough

Al how my species works and the unique organs that I have, and I don’t intend to. Being as smart as he is, with the knowledge that he has, he probably has an inkling, but I don’t feel

compelled to fight you by Arconidem, a test, perhaps. Torrifex is a loyal servant of the Demon God, but he has no wish to die. Rather, as close as he is to evolving and joining the Court, he and his sisters would much