Red Xunx

Red Xunx

The insectoid Xunx experience cycles. When a new queen is born, she gathers troops and a traditional cyclic war ensues. The new Xunx battle the old. The old are completley destroyed and devoured. Each of the queen generations lasts between 500 and 1000 years. A period of inactivity and regenerative sleep follows the traditional wars. Only the queen and her tenders remain active, while the remaining old Xunx die and the new ones are suspended in larvae state. Each Queen and her brood is identified by color of their bodies. There are several colors that can occur. However never the same consecutive. The last Xunx brood was Yellow before the Terrans exterminated the Xunx. Before the Yellow Queen was a Red Queen and before her a Green One.

The ancient system was thrown off when an Old queen and her trops actually won the nest war and killed the young queen. It almost spelled doom for the Xunx back then.