TGMC:Hivemind

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UNDEFINED XENO

Hivemind

Difficulty: Bigbrain Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Heal, rally, and overwatch xenomorphs; trap overextending marines Guides: This Quote: "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the elusiveness and certainty of psychic energy. I aspired to the purity of the Infinite Resin. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Hivemind is immortal . . . even in death I serve the Queen Mother."

The Hivemind

After the Hive experimented with psychic potential from the sacrifices of many humans and xenomorphs' lives, they have created a caste like no other, one that have acquired heighten cognitive power to expand the resin world with its mind.

The Hivemind is the only semi-corporeal xenomorph that support the hive by building resin buildings, planting weeds, and healing critical/wounded xenomorphs. While marines recognized the hivemind's physical manifestation and shoot it down ONLY for it to come back, rarely any marines seen the glowing tower that is the Hivemind's core given that its true body is far from the frontline and behind a fortified and clandestine location.

The almost immortal Drone

Do not let any marines find your core. This spells game over for you.

Ensure that before evolving into a hivemind, you as a drone do the following:

• make resin walls that prevent marines from seeing your glow easily; Hivemind core glows, so don't make it easy for marines to see your glow
• go deep into caves that is not the frontline
• ask queen for hive leadership since hivemind cannot get assigned to hive leadership

An example of hiding the hivemind

To receive xenomorphs' assistance, have a Hivelord build a tunnel and plant acid wells near you. The acid wells will alert them that marines are nearby, and tunnels let xenomorphs quick travel to ward off marines from your core.

The hivemind has two states: incorporeal and manifested.

While incorporeal, you don't have access to any of your abilities. You can manifest on weeds, but this body of yours will be very fragile (literally 100 HP). If marines shoot and destroy your manifested form, you are ejected back to your incorporeal state. You will remain in the incorporeal mode until you recover all your manifested health.

The responsibilities of the hivemind are but not exclusive to:

• Weeding for the hive
• Building resin defense
• Relaying hive about marines' locations
• Notifying hive about marines' flanking and potential xenomorphs flanks
• Gathering minions for the true xenomorph hoard
• Saving critically wounded xenomorphs
• Blocking off marines' retreat

The Queen gives up her overwatch role, but not her overwatch ability, to the Hivemind. You protect the hive with information that can be weaponized, quick reflex to heal horizontal xenomorphs, and building walls to block marines' retreat (or accidentally your own sisters' retreat).

Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths

The Hivemind cannot evolve nor mature. You cannot devolve from hivemind back to drone unless you ask an admin for help.

Body Type	Health	Plasma	Slash	Melee	Bullet	Laser	Energy	Bomb	Bio	Fire	Acid	Pheromone Strength
Hivemind	600	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0x
Physical Manifestation	100	600	0	0	0	0	0	40	0	0	0	4x

Hivemind Abilities

Ability	Description	Plasma Cost	Cooldown
Plant Weeds	Plants a resin weed node, which will start growing resin weeds in a 3-tile radius that allows xenomorphs to heal and restore plasma while on top of the tile. Right-clicking the ability icon will allow you to select different types of weeds to plant. Placing a weed node on top of another will replace that weed node with the new type. During the prep phase, plasma cost to place a weed node is halved. [Weed Types] Default, does nothing extraordinary. Costs 75 plasma. Boosts health and plasma regeneration by 20%, and doubles sunder recovery for any xenos resting on them. Costs 150 plasma. Slows humans and vehicles a small amount, can stack with sticky resin. Costs 225 plasma.	75-225	N/A
Secrete Resin	Builds structures, which can be chosen by clicking on the ability while it's active. More in Guide to resin construction Resin Buildings: Resin Walls regenerate their own health. Starting at 150 HP, they restore 3 HP every 5 seconds, with a maximum of 300. Also reduces incoming bullet damage by 60%. 75 Plasma Sticky Resin slows down human and vehicle movement drastically, while also slightly blocking flamethrower flames. Has 36 HP. Slowness can stack with sticky weeds. 50 Plasma Resin Doors block movement for non-xenomorph mobs. Has 100 HP. 150 Plasma	50-150	N/A
Emit Pheromones	Toggles your pheromones, allowing you to select Recovery, Warding, or Frenzy. You only emit one at a time, and you can see which pheromones you are effected by in the Status tab. Emitting pheromones uses 5 plasma every regeneration tick. Strength of pheromones is tied to caste and increases the effects. More at Xenomorph Mechanics. [Pheromone Types] Recovery: Accelerates healing and sunder regeneration for resting xenos, increases the amount healed from healing abilities, and increases plasma regeneration. Allows for healing after taking damage without having to wait 10 seconds. Warding: Increases soft armor in all areas for each level. Frenzy: Decreases movement slowdown by 0.6 for each level. [Pheromone Strength by Caste] and Drone - 2.0 Carrier - 2.5 Defiler - 2.6, Hivelord - 3.0, Shrike - 3.0, Hivemind - 4.0, Praetorian - 4.5, King - 4.5 Queen and Pheromone Towers - 5.0	N/A	N/A
Psychic Whisper	Allows you to demoralize marines telepathically; truly the peak of psyops	N/A	N/A
Psychic Cure	A powerful heal that heals an adjacent target for 10 damage + 37.5% max health while regenerating 10% sunder. Healing scales with regeneration pheromones.	200	60 sec
Transfer Plasma	Transfers your plasma to a fellow xenomorph, giving them up to 200 plasma.	0-200	N/A
Return to Core	Teleport back to your core.	N/A	N/A
Manifest	Change from your incorporal form to your physical on and vice-versa.	N/A	N/A
Rally Hive	Rallies the player xeno to you, along with an arrow pointer for other xeno. Gives the Hive your current health status. 60 second cooldown.	0	60 seconds
Rally Minions	Command minions, ordering them to converge on this location. You must be next to minions in order for them to follow you. When you activate rally minion, you will *roar, which will in turn make the minions *roar as well. If you hear minions *roar, it means they are following you. Note that minions are stupid and WILL get stuck , help me step xeno	100	60 seconds
Command Minions	Order the minions escorting you to be either aggressive or passive.	N/A	N/A

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter, Pyrogen
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor