Factions/Chitin Queens

The CQ's are an enigmatic faction of femme insectoids with a reputation for skillful social manipulation and unnerving patience. Typical Chitin Queen style blends images of refined feminine power with grotesque forms of beauty borrowed from the invertebrate phyla. Some CQ's belong natively to such species while others merely adopt the "bug" look through body art and costuming. Some even take the opposite extreme, living as a tiny symbiote within a harem of brainless host clones.

With characteristic reserve, Chitin Queens never discuss, nor tolerate outside speculation upon, whether a particular Queen was born or made. If you're wondering whether there are such things as "Chitin Drones," just find somebody who asked too many questions about a Chitin Queen's private life. They'll answer exactly as they were told to, verbatim... The CQ's are exacting about manners and very, very good with what they call "penitentiary neurosculpture."

In general, the image of the Chitin Queens is cold, self-interested, and eccentric, but also civilized, elegant, and (within their own byzantine law) fair. The Queens are most active and overt in Topwarp, but are thought to have hives hidden in every Warp, including Strange.

--taken from Function OR's [writeup]

Chitin society is generally hierarchical, with a ruling caste and various ranks of workers and drones, though there are notable exceptions. Power struggles within a hive are rare but not unknown

The name "Chitin Queen" itself was given them by outsiders, and is potentially misleading; it may refer to all the sentient species that reside in a hive, or to the ruling caste within a clan, or to the highest ruler (the equivalent of a queen in an ant or bee colony).

For players with new CQ characters, here are some strategies for playing your Queen.

Known members

• Of unknown hive/clan:
  • Th'thsthn, possibly

• [Chmee Brood]?
  • characters/N'Cheren?

• House of Neke: courtly biotechnologists
  • Atcinna (daughter-queen)
  • Okyno (daughter-queen)
  • Seaya (encrypted)
  • characters/Kiemo? (dormant?)
  • Amanita (in training)
  • Twin (in training)

• [Slaug'h'hoe'u Hive]? (not always acknowledged as such)
  • Aslaugh'h'ha (leech queen)

• Szjna-cyvani: gypsy moth engineers
  • Marhime

So far mentioned only in passing:

• Factions/Ccirhoibakoa? (see N'kenge)

• Factions/Salkadtis?: chic glamour girls of Top

• Factions/Aiagae?: bull-dyke stag beetles

Bookmarks

http://www.backyardnature.net/bugbody.htm - RP reference bookmark