Once again we see how the capitalist individualist mind of the
Terran Federation is incapable of understanding the Socio-consciousness of the
BUGs. We here at the GPR have made a dialectical scientific study of BUG
behaviour and can assert that most previous 'knowledge' of BUGs is bourgeois
propaganda propogated by that Federation mouthpiece, Space Opera.
The Bugs are an ancient race. While the planet Terra was being formed the Bugs
roamed the stars and built cities that rivalled the Forerunners. Their level of
development far surpassed the levels of today's Federation. Slowly, over time,
they turned their enourmous resources to philosophical questions, the highpoint
of their achievement was the Philosophy of Ick. This philosophy declared (in a
vulgarised form that the barbarian Federation conscoiusness can understand) that
"Being-in-itself through being-for-another is predicated upon
being-as-it-is while being-as-another is just being-silly". Over the next
generations, BUGs began the Great Mind Meld, giving up being-for-oneself, and
embracing being-with-others. The 'Hive Mind' that is so misunderstood, is not a
relic of social structure from the most primitive forms of life, but rather the
highest form of social organisation in the universe. BUGs renounced the World,
and embraced Society.
All of BUG needs are met by Society. From food, to weapons to art, all of life's
requirements are provided for by Social-Organic Interraction. The Fderation
Propaganda films of captured of BUG weaponry are just that, simple propaganda.
BUG weaponry is provided, like all else, organically. The weapons of the BUGs
are the BUG warriors, and in times when ranged weapons have been necessary, The
Great EggMothers have been known to produce 'Mutant' BUGs firing deadly
projectiles from their limbs. The foul notion that BUGs treat individual BUGs as
mere ammunition, has an element of truth. Individual BUGs are tools, instances
of the Greater Being that is BUG society, the death of a BUG implies nothing
more than the loss of a tool, the BUG's Essence continues to live in the
collective consciousness.
Turning to the question of Starships, and the author has had the pleasure of
taking Aphid Tea aboard a 400 000 ton Carrier: ships, like all bug 'vehicles'
are hyper-complex biolgical entities. Not so much a 'creature' or animal, but a
collection of biological processes or a collection of 'creatures'. Just as BUGs
develop 'flying BUGS' to act as aircraft, so they have developed intergalactic
BUGs to act as their StarNavy.
I can hear your incredulous Imperialistic Federational minds wondering two
things. "If the BUGs are so advanced, why don't they splatter us" to
which the unflattering answer is that they don't really care much about you and
the vast majority of their resources and time are spent pondering philosophical
questions in the Great Meld. Secondly; "Well if they are so philosophical,
why do they attack Federation (and it must be admitted, occassionally GPR) ships"
The Brain BUG aboard the Carrier explained this to me very succinctly. "We
don't like you" He said.
Vladimir Illyich
Chief of Revolutionary Misinformation