Brood: a generation of young Cast, produced at one hatching.
"a brood of chicks"
Cast: a creature made by shaping biomass or genetic strands in a template.
"bronze casts of the sculpture"
Colony: a community of Cast living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
"a colony of seals"
Drone: a Cast creature adhering to a common template in a swarm or colony of Cast, which exclusively responds only to a hierarch.
Genetic Code: the nucleotide triplets of DNA and RNA molecules that carry genetic information in living cells.
Genetic Strands: a nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in cells and some viruses, consisting of two long chains of nucleotides twisted into a double helix and joined by hydrogen bonds between the complementary bases adenine and thymine or cytosine and guanine. DNA sequences are replicated by the cell prior to cell division and may include genes, intergenic spacers, and
regions that bind to regulatory proteins.
Genetic Material: any material of
plant, animal, microbial or other origin that carries genetic information and that passes it from one generation to the next. The information contained controls reproduction, development, behaviour, etc.
Hierarch: a chief priest, archbishop, queen, nexus, or other leader.
Hivemind: A unified consciousness or intelligence formed by a number of Cast individuals, the resulting consciousness typically exerting control over its constituent members.
"there is a Queen who controls the hive mind"
Nexus: a connection or series of connections linking two or more creatures.
"the nexus between industry and political power"
the central and most important point or place.
"the nexus of all this activity was the disco"
Swarm: A large or dense group of Cast.
"a swarm of locusts"
Queen: a reproductive or authoritative female in a colony of Cast creatures.