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: "Well um, actually I do have a degree in both theoretical and applied mazing so yes Hatchling Drone (491), I am qualified to tell you that filling fields with sticky resin isn't a good idea.👁️" *manifests a large resin middle finger*

Statistics and Evolution Path

The Hivemind cannot evolve nor devolve. Once you become a hivemind, you are permanently stuck as one.

• Speed is calculated inversely, meaning the lower speed value you have, the faster you are. Xenomorphs are always running, meaning they have a -1.0 boost added to their base speed. (Chart displays running speed)

	Health	Plasma	Slash	Speed	Melee	Bullet	Laser	Energy	Bomb	Bio	Fire	Acid	Pheromone Strength
Physical Manifestation	100	600	0	-4.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4x
Unmanifested	100	600	0	-2.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4x
Hivemind	600				0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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 heightened cognitive power to expand the resin world with its mind.

The Hivemind is the only semi-corporeal xenomorph that supports 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, they must use a structure tracker to find the hivemind's core.

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:

• Go near the silo or some other heavily fortified area that the hive will be apt to defend
• get close to a cave wall or some other area that you will not be blocking off xenomorph movement with by placing many walls
• alien tab -> evolve -> hivemind
• THIS WILL PLACE YOUR CORE WHERE YOU ARE RESTING TO EVOLVE
• Wall this area off in order to give yourself plenty of time to call other xenos for assistance before the marines find your core if they do reach the silo

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 which can take some time. You can however move and receive healing and the effects of pheromones while in this state, so it is best to jump to a Hivelord or Drone and asking them to heal you when they are not busy.

The responsibilities of the hivemind are but not exclusive to:

• Weeding for the hive
• Use the hive status page to quickly jump to xenomorphs location in order to provide them with healing and plasma
• Building resin wall mazes
• Relaying hive about marines' locations
• Notifying hive about marines' flanking and potential xenomorphs flanks
• Gathering minions for the true xenomorph hoard
• You can drag xenomorphs, critical marines, and items. Use this to advantage but be aware of your 100HP when doing so.
• Blocking off marines' retreat

You protect the hive with information that can be weaponized, are able to heal hurt xenomorphs, and building walls to block marines' retreat (or accidentally your own sisters' retreat).

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
Salve Healing	Allows you to spend 150 plasma on healing a xeno for 50 HP + (Recovery Pheremone Level * the Xeno's max health * 0.01) along with healing 10 sunder	150	5 seconds
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
		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