Spoilers Pluribus

[Epic Meepo]

After this latest episode, I'm going to be doubly disappointed if this virus isn't the first step of an alien invasion, or at least a precursor to a second, more aggressively-minded virus.

If that's not what's going on here, this hive mind makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective. It's so passive, it essentially has to sit around, waiting for food to fall out of the sky? That's not a functioning hive. That's the worker drone half of the hive that builds infrastructure and tends to the nest. Where are the aggressive warrior drones who can harvest food and protect the passive workers from outside threats?

 

[Necropolitan]

After this latest episode, I'm going to be doubly disappointed if this virus isn't the first step of an alien invasion, or at least a precursor to a second, more aggressively-minded virus.

If that's not what's going on here, this hive mind makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective. It's so passive, it essentially has to sit around, waiting for food to fall out of the sky? That's not a functioning hive. That's the worker drone half of the hive that builds infrastructure and tends to the nest. Where are the aggressive warrior drones who can harvest food and protect the passive workers from outside threats?

My guess is it's purposeful.

It's a great way to wipe out the dominant intelligent lifeform on a planet with minimal damage.

'Humane' extermination.

Or the aliens can just show up and the hive mind will do whatever they want, giving them billions of slaves (minus however many die before they get there).