Blue Swarm Redux (Starcraft x Mass Effect)

You are Echidna, Broodmother of the Typhon Brood, you may not have numbers or subterfuge of other Broods but your strength lies in strength itself. Overwhelming power that could crush your foes. To your great disappointment, your world-spanning brood is now missing the thousands of hive clusters and billions of bioforms lost. The new Leviathan not yet hatched was a casualty as well and you lack the resources to rebirth it now.

You had not been in the central hive cluster when the transition occurred and to your disappointment, the cluster you were aiding in the regrowth was lacking in many of the structures needed to support your focus. It was not all lost you remained drones remained several of the powerful specimens of your swarm remains, the massive Omegalisk towered over the small trees of the island even as they wilt from the creep. A powerful force though without a nydus network the sea before you will be a challenge for the swarm to cross.

The island where you ended up is small but part of a larger island chain perhaps this archipelago can lead to a larger area to expand into. The ring in the sky is tempting but orbital clusters are generally vulnerable and without a large brood to support them could be struck if an enemy found this world. The ocean lapped at the sand, and your eyes and the eyes of the overseers and lords turned onto the crystal blue water around you. First, you would need to go over the forces in your hands. A single Omegalisk, large and powerful enough even in a brood of billions of other bioforms you still had an exact count of their number and tracked them individually. For the other bioforms you generally had them in your mind into larger formations and groups, rarely would you care about the singular drone or the individual zerglings. Even Ultralisks and Brood Lords would be gathered into squads in the full scale of your swarm. Only the Levithans and Omegalisks stood above that teeming swarm.

A single Ultralisk survived but the island and oceans will be a difficult place to use them to their full benefit. Beyond that, you could not replace the giants at this time something you will have to correct soon to feel comfortable. The air is empty, the fliers of your brood had not been on the surface near the ground instead they were constantly on patrol. This means none of your flying creatures except for the overseers and overlords were with you on this new planet. You had a few dozen roaches and hydralisks, and two hundred zerglings. You were not in the most developed part of the hive when transported so no infestors, impalers, or swarm hosts had been in the radius transported. Three dozen overlords and half a dozen overseers remain, as well as the four queens who had been tending to the four hatcheries in the young cluster.

The cluster itself was just those four hatcheries and the associated spawning pools, an evolution chamber, and a few of the various crawlers filled out the remaining parts of the minuscule part of your brood around you. You need to get to work.

Clusters

Landing (Temporary Name)
Location Arrival Archipelago
- Development 0
- Defense 1
- Spawning 2
- Extraction 1
- Specialties None

Resources

Minerals
Income: 50, Expense: 0, Current: 100

Biomass
Income: 25, Expense: 0, Current: 100

Vespine
Income: 0, Expense: 0, Current: 25

Control
Used: 12.25, Supplied: 17.5

Forces

Overlord Groups (12)

3​

Overseer Groups (12)

0.5​

Drone Groups (50)

2​

Zergling Groups (100)

2​

Roach Groups (12)

4​

Hydralisk Groups (12)

3​

Ultralisk Groups (4)

0.25​

Omegalisk (1)

1​

Evolutions

Creatures
- Drones (Production and Extraction of resources)
- Overlord (Control, Scouting, Flying, Transport)
-- Overseer (Control, Scouting, Flying, Detection, Changling Spawn) [Locked]
- Zerglings (Warform, Cheep, Melee, Quick)
-- Banelings (Warform, Cheep, Suicide) [Locked]
- Roaches (Warform, Stealth, Resilient, Range, Melee) [Locked]
-- Ravager (Warform, Artillery, Quick) [Locked]
- Hydralisks (Warform, Range, Quick) [Locked]
-- Impaler (Warform, Stealth, Artillery (Subterranean)) [Locked]
- Queen (Warform, Spawning, Support, Range, Creep)
- Infestor (Stealth, Hijacking, Infestation, Support) [Locked]
- Swarm Host (Locust Spawning, Stealth) [Locked]
- Ultralisk (Warform, Tank, Melee, Cleaving, Massive) [Locked]
-- Omegalisk (Warform, Tank, Regenerating, Melee, Cleaving, Massive, Striking, Muliattack) [Locked]
- Mutalisk (Warform, Flying, Ranged, Multishot) [Locked]
-- Viper (Warform, Flying, Anti-Air, Support) [Locked]
- Corruptor (Warform, Flying, Anti-Air) [Locked]
-- Brood Lord (Warform, Flying, Resilient, Broodling Spawn, Artillery, Massive) [Locked]
- Scourge (Warform, Flying, Cheep, Suicide) [Locked]
- Leviathan (Warform, Transport, Flying, Spawning, Massive+, Resilient, Regenerating, Striking, Multiattack, Artillery) [Locked]

Structures
- Hatchery (Spawning, Complexity 0)
-- Lair (Spawning +, Overseer, Complexity 1)
---Hive (Spawning ++, Complexity 3)
-- Leviathan Egg (Transition, Complexity 5)
- Extractor (Vespine Processing, Complexity 0)
- Spawning Pool (Zergling, Queen, Complexity 0)
-- Baneling Nest (Baneling, Complexity 1)
- Spine Crawler (Defensive Melee, Mobile, Complexity 0)
- Spore Crawler (Defensive Anti-Ait, Mobile, Complexity 0)
- Evolution Chamber (Research, Complexity 0)
- Roach Warren (Roach, Ravager, Complexity 0)
- Hydralisk Den (Hydralisk, Complexity 1)
-- Impaler Den (Impaler, Complexity 2)
- Nydus Network (Transport, Complexity 1)
- Spire (Mutalisk, Corruptor, Scourge, Complexity 1)
-- Greater Spire (Brood Lord, Viper, Complexity 3)
--- Leviathan Spire (Leviathan, Complexity 5)
- Infestation Pit (Infestor, Swarm Host, Complexity 2)
- Ultralisk Cavern (Ultralisk, Complexity 3)
-- Omegalisk Cavern (Omegalisk, Complexity 5)

Sites

Arrival Archipelago
- Minerals Poor
- Vespine None
- Biomass Poor

You have 1 Free Die

The rules will be updated here as they come up and I get to them feel free to ask about rules you don't see here or that are unclear.

Zerg are gathered into groups with a size based on the strength of the Zerg units. These do not necessarily directly equate to the power in the Starcraft game. Each unit group costs one control to maintain, if you go over your control a cluster has the chance to go feral and become separate from your swarm. The exceptions are Overseers and Overlords who provide 5 control per group. If a group loses units from battle or used to morph new forms it will be recovered as part of the turn after if the local cluster has the required structures to unlock them. However, for the turn they are weakened they are less effective.

Biomass can be used directly when called for or can be used in place of materials or vespine. Biomass can be turned into materials at a 2:1 ratio, and into vespine at a 10:1 ratio. This allows you access to more advanced bioforms even if you can not access vespine though it does mean you need a large amount of biomass to do so.