The Hive were introduced at the start of year 197 as a new distraction for the Human affiliations. The affiliation was short lived and by the end of the year had disbanded and become part of the Flagritz Republic.

However the Hive are back!!!!!!!! as of week 26 year 200 they are a seperate player run affiliation :)

Check out there website on:- http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0213825601/

The Hive were the first creations of the Architects, designed to be a perfect slave race for there masters. They were intended to not only fight there battles but maintain control of the countless planets and systems the Architects were taking over. The Hive structure was very similar to the structure of ants. At the center or each Hive was the queen that produced egg's each week. These could then be hatched into workers and warriors as needed. Each Planet was assigned a queen and built up there until they were strong enough to branch out onto another planet. There forces would join up with there masters fleet or other Hive fleets and gain control of another planet chosen by the architects. On this new planet the largest Hive force present would get there Queen to produce a hug egg shaped ship, called a Seeder. Within it would be a new young Queen, the ship would be sent to the new planet where it would setup a new Hive. All Hive subjects on the planet would become part of the new Hive. A lot of the workers and warriors would be fed to the Seed to feed the Queen, after a few weeks the Queen would be born and would begin work to build up the planet until the new Hive was strong enough to join the fleet.

However the Hive were found to be slow in growing and did not work well with other Hives. Also due to the fact that the Hive queen only produced a finite amount of egg's per week a Hive could never grow bigger then a certain size as even in times where the Hive was not fighting the death rate of the workers was still equal to the amount being produced.

However the technology behind the Hive was still first rate. The Hive race were made up of four distinct classes of life. The workers as there name suggests were excellent at all manual and building tasks. The Warriors were excellent fighters, easy to mass produce and tougher then any races general soldier. The Drones were highly intelligent able to operate sophisticated ships and able to adapt to communicate with all types of creatures. Finally their Super Warrior (a late design the ARC introduced) was the ultimate fighting machine, although resource intensive to build even a small number could be devastating, used usually to lead and rally the normal warriors and defend the queen they were amazing ground troops and opened the way to many new tactics for the Hive.

The Hive had a superb array of ships at there disposal as well. The Felucca there smallest ship was able to bypass sensor scans for a short time, allowing troops to be landed on the planet. For once the ARC did not have to destroy everything on planet, using Hive warriors planets could be taken without any space combat at all. The Alien Caravel was a small ship design that was very maneuverable and was able to carry an adequate amount of weapons. The Alien Caravel was perfect when faced by a fleet of hundreds of smaller vessels. Before the ARC's huge ships would take a pounding as they were only able to deal with a few positions at a time now with the hive they could field thousands of small ships to counter there enemy or screen there huge Host ships from enemy fire. Finally the Invader was the ultimate ship design, unlike other ships it could be built to whatever specifications the job needed, Some Hives built Invaders that were several times larger then there masters ships and focused on supporting there masters fleet instead of expansion on planets. Other invaders were smaller maximized for transport duties etc. The Invader was not a real ship it was made up of actual Hive drones who molded together to form this huge living,thinking, fighting ship.

However the ARC were not happy wit the Hive, although they were a great success they believed they could be improved upon. They designed a new reproduction system within the hive and a better range of ships and technology for them. This new Race would be the HXM. However the ARC did not know what to do with the hive that was still around. They decided the only thing to do was to destroy the hive so that the HXM could move in and replace them. They began by sending there ships unsupported against alien races, leading to many being destroyed. They then began killing all the Queens as this would stop them growing and would mean they would eventually die. However the original and oldest Queen saw what was happening. Unable to leave the Hive herself as she would die she secretly produced a Seeder Ship. When the Ship was ready the Queen summoned 2 Alien Caravels to guard the seeder as well as a Invader which was loaded up with warriors, workers and super warriors and ordered them to head for unknown space. Due to the relatively small size of the escaping force the ARC did not realize they were gone for some time and when they did were not too bothered as they did not know a seeder ship had been produced. The fate of the rest of the race is unknown but due to the recent arrival of the HXM it can be assumed they did not last.

The Small Hive convoy traveled for many months, looking for a new home, they came across an unstable wormhole that lead to the Teller system. They traveled through it and upon finding the system relatively unsettled (only a few minor races inhabited it) they setup a new Hive. The "Teller Hive" had escaped fom there masters and were free for the first time.

However they did not get of too a good start, having been part of a huge empire and always the aggressors any ships they encountered they attacked and destroyed, this did not go down well with the humans who lived in that area of space. A few weeks later after discovering there new Hive planet had another race settled on it (A FET colony) they decided to attack and rid themselves of the inferiors. A week later an imperial fleet formed to rid the galaxy of the Hive, they quickly moved in and attacked the main colony of the hive. Soon Imperial ground forces were on ground and attacking the hive colony. However the Hive ground forces were underestimated and the empires forces were destroyed. This attck on there Hive angered the Queen and she orderd all her reserves to attack the FET colony and several of the ships that had landed to drop of the ground forces. The attack was a copmlete success leading to all targets being captured. However a few days later reinforcements arrived and the Hive were pushed back, causing them to lose the new FET colony, the ships they captured and a few ships they had landed themselves.

As more enemy ships began to orbit, the Hive Queen realized the situation she was in and sent out a general distress signal hoping to get more Hives to come and join them in the fight. However the only race to pick up the message was the FGZ who used similar communication technology. The FGZ always on the look out for allies of similar advancement as themselves offered the hive membership to the Republic. However before the agreement was signed the empire began its bombardment. Desperate the Queen ordered her entire hatching chamber to be loaded on the Invader, a task never attempted by the Hive before and fled under the cover of Korondite for neutral space. The Drones left finalized the treaty and the Flagritz gained a cease fire with the Empire. Over the next few weeks the FGZ moved in Baseships to transport the Hive workers and Warriors left. The Queen had found refuge with the KAS and the FGZ had a hard time convincing them to let them have the Queen back. In the end the KAS allowed the FGZ to remove the Hatching chamber in a Baseship in order that they could keep the Invader (which they still have to this day!).

For the next 2 years the hive built up in Inferno, there fleet saw no action. They allied themselves with the Wimbles another member race in the Republic and protected and ran ships for them. When the Main FGZ war took place they used all there forces for defense fearing what happened in Teller would happen again. When the FGZ pulled out of Inferno the Queen for the second time was removed and the hive settled in Clan Space where they are to this day....

Since the Resurection order took over the running of the Flagritz Republic a lot of work has gone into restoring the Hive colony and finally it was strong enough to go independent again :)

Old HVE Abilities (the HVE have new abilities as well now):-

1) Hive workers provide 5 man hours and can be used in specials to produce Clothes and PSU's

2) Hive warriors and Super Warriors are one of the best fighting lifeforms in the galaxy.

3) Hive drones operate numerous alien ships

4) The HVE operate the Felucca 6/30/12 B.S. 1.4 which can cloak for 20Tu's

5) The hive operate the Alien Caravel 20/58/20 B.S. 1.7

6) The HVE Invader is KAS Colonizer (3334) which can be seen in Yank in orbit of Rubis. It is configured 80/260/90 has a B.S. 1.7 It posses a inertial dampening field which reduces enemy accuracy by 15%.

If you are interested in the HVE or want more info contact:-

Milton Papadopoulos:- Flagritz@hotmail.com

Any comments please send to:- Flagritz@hotmail.com