The doomsday creatures introduced in the first few articles are actually indigenous to the earth, and they are written and a little nostalgic for the alien monsters, so today I will introduce you to the insect race in "Ender's Game", monster number 0053 - wisdom insect family.
The concept of the Intelligent Worm Clan was first proposed by science fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein (the father of modern American science fiction) in the book Starship Paratroopers, and Ender's Game is a continuation of the Wisdom Worm Clan. (The movie Ender's Game is based on the novel by Orson Scott Card)
Zerg fleet
The setting of the Intelligent Bug Clan is based on Earth's social insects, whether it is Starship Paratroopers or Ender's Game, inspired by ant-like insects.
The core of the intelligent insect family is set as a network of thoughts, and the entire group resembles a giant creature, the independent individual is only a body organ, and the brain is their king worm.
Regarding the origin of the Zerg Race, it is not very clearly described in Ender's Game. But Ender's notebook has this passage: All zerg are derived from the first mother, and it is she who gave birth to the zerg mother. After expelling the mother like other insect clans, she learned to live in peace, and the existence of multiple mothers made the first mother clan extremely powerful, which also attracted more mothers to join, and eventually formed today's wisdom insect clan. (Therefore, the Wisdom Worm Clan actually has more than one core, and what single soldier beheading does not exist)
In addition, within the framework of the intelligent insect family, they still belong to the "carbon-based organisms". The reason why it is a carbon-based organism, on the one hand, is that it is the most imaginable alien image for human beings. On the other hand, from the origin of life, DNA is still the only living material in human cognition, so extraterrestrial life is most likely to be a carbon-based organism based on DNA.
In fact, throughout the film of "Ender's Game", the time for the zerg to appear in the front is not much, so the biological information is somewhat vague. But based on the setting of social insects, their most likely prototype is the Earth ant, so the taxonomy is: arthropod phylum Insects Hymenoptera.
Ender's Game Zerg appearance (based on the appearance of the tail worm): the body surface is covered with pale cortical tissue, the exoskeleton unique to the bug family has degenerated, but has evolved an endoskeleton, and the crown-like structure on the top of the worm's head is also supported by the endoskeleton.
Barr, king of destruction
The body part looks a bit like The King of Destruction, one of the Three Dark Gods, Barr, with a base-like lower body supported by four pairs of knife feet, two pairs of boring knives on the upper limbs (one pair is longer, one is closed in the chest), and the tail is a fat reproductive organ. Although the wisdom insect family has long been separated from the sequence of simple insects, the physiological structure is not much different from that of the ancestral ants.
The head structure of the queen is similar to that of an earth mantis, and its mouth is a chewing mouthpiece, and above it are two pairs of jewel-like compound eyes. It's just that in its big black eyes, it's the light of wisdom that flickers, not the bloodthirsty madness of the praying mantis.
According to the data, the "Ender's Game" insect family only has a visual organ, they have no language between them, rely on the communication of ideas, and have the ability to communicate across time and space.
To add, the insectoids in Ender's Game are basically female, and they are like the social structure of their ancestors, as long as they are not post-worm sexual organs will atrophy or not develop. (Therefore, the huge tail mentioned above should be the unique body structure of the insect queen)
What is more buggy is that compared with the figure of Ender in the film, the height of the insect queen should not exceed 1.5 meters, and the body length should be up to 4 to 5 meters, in this body shape, it is unable to breed a large number of offspring.
And "Ender's Game" also emphasizes that the speed at which the Zerg build an army is extremely fast, which is somewhat contradictory. But the biological setting was not the core content of Ender's Game in the first place. The film is mainly about thinking about what attitude humans should take to deal with when they come into contact with unknown civilizations. There are similarities with the Dark Forest Law in The Three-Body Problem, but the attitude is different
Why is it that humans cannot defeat the insect race on the real battlefield? This is because not only do they live longer than we do, but their populations are far larger than those of humans. In the case of Earth alone, the InsectOids have existed for more than 400 million years (currently known), during which there have been several mass extinctions, and the number of global disasters is uncountable, but the Zerg have always existed. In other words, if humans bombard the earth indiscriminately with the most powerful weapon nuclear bomb at present, the insect race still has the possibility of survival.
In addition, there are too many of them. The total mass of the insect race on the earth is actually greater than the mass of all the animals on the earth combined. And war with them, you can fully understand as a battle without a rest. So do you think it is possible for the human army to defeat the Zerg Race?
Next, continue to introduce the strange creatures in the fantasy world, interested friends remember to pay attention to me.