@lemgandi I wasn't fooled. Just curious. They seem really organized and thoughtful, but I'm not really an expert on their world.
With my understanding of how evolution works, it helps the species along its path. Being as successful as they are, I'm curious if there would ever be a reason for them to develop more complex social networks.
A single queen can produce enough workers for a colony. But that is a limited environment with a finite amount of space. Astronaut Ants and colonizing ants wouldn't have that limitation in the traditional since would they?
Hives are self-sufficient (I think?) so they would need to maintain that sufficiency while moving through space right? I don't think a single queen could produce enough offspring to maintain more than one star-ship could she? I wouldn't think she could populate a fleet.
I'm not really familiar with how they, or if they, "talk". I understand they transmit communications to each other... but do they... "socialize"?
For example, I'm talking to ya'll about a subject I have no knowledge of, a little interest in, and a little bit of time to discuss it. Do... ants... do that? I understand we don't necessarily know (or at least I don't, ya'll might)
I'm just curious, right? They become space-capable, they want to explore the stars. They get a willing queen.... some workers... and they hit the stars.
What does that look like? 