The notorious insect race could not grow its energy resources throughout the universe fast enough to keep pace with the cost of its expansion. Endless waves of soldiers sent out to plunder would only lead to the race eventually exhausting everything or being destroyed by a powerful foe. So the Mother of the Swarm came up with a plan: she would engrave the factors for evolution into their genes and sacrifice lives to ascend through dimensions. Only when the swarm captured a living planet would its genes unleash their potential, beginning a contest of flesh and blood to choose the strongest among them once more.
