Ves perked up when the Web Mistress addressed the mutated voribug threat.
The major human powers had not published a lot of information about them. Most of what the public learned came from studying the public combat footage against the new threat that emerged on the Rubarthan front.
Many people already speculated that the voribugs were being directed by a central authority.
The masses were just unclear whether this direction came from a gestalt hive mind existence that formed when enough low-intelligence voribugs gathered together, or whether the direction originated from a single hyper-intelligent queen organism.
It sounded as if the latter was the case. That had many implications. A single supreme voribug queen likely possessed absolute command over all of her swarms, making it so that each and every single element acted in complete coordination with each other.
