The Blight are cybernetic organisms linked in a Hive Mind called The Blight Collective. The Blight Collective is the term used to define the forced combined consciousness of trillions of individuals, using technology. The Blight are distinguished by their collective consciousness, their fusion of biological matter and technology, and their driving principle to assimilate all knowledge or eradicate threats, without regard to ethics. The Blight are a vast consciousness, untold trillions of formerly sentient beings from a multitude of different species whose individuality has been forcibly subsumed and assimilated into gestalt intelligence or hive mind. The Blight functions as singular entity, with no discernible separation between the collective and the myriads of life forms that constitute it, by every conventional understand, it has no government, no culture, no religion no ideology, only single will of Blight collective and its clinical processes, their overriding directive is often described as the endless pursuit of perfection, but no explanation, no matter how through, can fully articulate the nature of Blight Collective's motivations, an individual mind is incapable of comprehending or conveying the subtle essence of the Blight, for their implacable drive transcends the familiar motives and desires characteristics of natural life. The Blight Collective is vast network hive mind administering the Blight civilization, facilities extremely remarkable efficiency in both decisions making and execution, each drones function as both vessel of labor and a component of Blight Collective' enormous computational network, endless processing and disseminating information, each Blight drones may concurrently engage in a diverse array of tasks spanning the entire hive hierarchy of Blight collectives needs, from local, immediate concerns relatives only to single drone, to complex, large scale endeavor that address the strategic objectives of their entire civilization, the enormous computational power derived from its drones, allows the Blight to execute a nearly limitless number of tasks or calculations simultaneously, when presented with a challenge, the Blight Collective able to consider and analyze every conceivable course of action, integrating not just factual date, but the vast repository of experiences accumulated from each individual and each civilizations that has been assimilated, the integration of diverse perspectives without the weaknesses typically presented in hierarchy organizations, ensure a level of accuracy and precision in decision making process without equal in the known galaxy, even decisions that might be deemed unthinkable by others species, with profound and far reaching consequences can be made without emotion, ego or bias.
The Blight themselves are network of biological units modified by technology with which they spread throughout the galaxy with the goal of assimilating all species within that will add to their growth they are tracing the ultimate goal of perfection a concept without end and as such will never be satisfied. The Blight Collective lack any form concept of individually as all form of individually are snuffed out as threat to the unity of the Blight collective required to function. The Blight Collective is determined by the single imperative to perfect its life-form biologically and technologically, and to assimilate and incorporate knowledge to achieve perfection. The Blight Collective are a unique threat in that they are not driven by typical motivations like political conquest or wealth, but rather by a relentless drive to assimilate and expand their collective through technology, their focus is on assimilating and incorporating other beings into their Collective, effectively extending their control and knowledge. The Blight Collective are considers an existential threat, You can't outrun them; you can't destroy them, If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains; they regenerate they, continuing to keep come, eventually you will weaken, your reserves will be gone, any resistance against Blight will eventually be weaken, and their resources will be depleted, they are relentless, implying that Blight will continue to pursue their goals until they achieve them, regardless of the cost, meaning they will continue to attack and assimilate until they are successful, even if a single Blight cube is destroyed, they will eventually send another, highlighting their unwavering determination, they represent an enemy that cannot be negotiated with or outright destroyed, but one that slowly erodes resistance through persistence and inevitability giving them an almost predatory, unstoppable quality.
The Blight Collective are the ultimate user, they seeing other life not as an enemy to be defeated, but rather a resource to be consumed and repurposed, the Blight Collective a method of eliminating one's enemies was in order, with methods to assimilate rather than kill, wasting potential drones was inefficient to Blight Collective, the Blight Collective leave no room for freedom of choice, equality, or compassion, on the contrary, Blight Collective sees these traits as inefficiencies, obstacles on the path to their goal, deeming their own motivations of conquest to be of pure benevolence thus disregarding all associated morality, the Blight Collective are force of nature, in their collective state, they are utterly without mercy; driven by one will alone, the will to conquer, they are beyond redemption, beyond reason, they cannot be bartered with, reasoned with, intimidated, or stalled, their singular drive and inability to be reasoned with or deterred make them an existential threat that's terrifyingly efficient and coldly calculating. The Blight Collective philosophy to the extent is such concept can be applied to the Blight Collective, is based on achieving state of perfection, both for themselves and all life, this in advanced in practice merely by assimilating individuals, ships, planets, or entire civilization, the best qualities and traits of each entity, their biological and technological distinctiveness, could be adopted to serve the whole collective, any weakness is expunged, this is done without any moral consideration, the Blight do not inflict undue pain and suffering, the idea that others species may not wish to be assimilated, that they value their individually over the concept of shared perfection is a foreign concept to Blight, within the Blight collective, the benefits of assimilation and advantage it presents over individually is inconvertible as mathematical equation, while they might understand nature of individually, they have transcendence the ability to comprehend why this might be favorable, in endless pursuit of perfection throughout assimilation, the Blight Collective view resistance as not only futile but a deviation from the optimal order of the universe.
The structure of the Blight Collective is vast and increasingly complex as is vast and increasingly complex as grows, drones are the vast majority of species, they come it diverse myriads of forms each tailored for a specific purpose. The Blight collective form of organization allowed for tremendous efficiency in action and deliberation, with each drone functioning separately according to its instructions, it could at any time be processing information, performing physical actions, or focusing its energy on other the Blight collective goals, the vast resources thus presented to the collective organization allowed for simultaneous execution of a nearly infinite number of tasks as well as nearly limitless calculations, this in turn allowed the Blight to consider multiple courses of action before committing to any one course, the best example of this was the Blight ability to adapt nearly instantaneously to any type of attack or threat, by focusing its resources on the threat at hand all possible outcomes and responses could be explored within an extremely short period of time, the result was that the Blight were able to bring a tremendous amount of force, or computational power, to bear on any single problem and overwhelm any opposition by sheer volume of numbers, at any time when the Blight encounter a problem such as a new species using unusual weapons of which the Blight experience difficulty adapting to, the entire collective comprised of trillions of minds will all work together to resolve the problem in perfect trinity, resulting in possibly thousands of solutions, the most efficient and effective of the solutions will be selected and implemented, the Blight collective state of organization also greatly decreased the chance of error that exists with the decision making of individuals or the conflicts of opinion that are a factor in hierarchical organizations.
The group consciousness of the Blight civilization is created by linking each Blight drone to the collective by a sophisticated subspace decentralized network that ensures each member is given constant supervision and guidance, allowing them to share thoughts, experiences, and knowledge, this subspace network forms the basis of the Blight's collective consciousness, where each Blight is essentially a part of a larger, unified entity, their collective consciousness operates with a level of efficiency and precision that defies conventional understanding, as they lack individuality and act solely for the benefit of the hive mind, this unity and lack of emotion or bias in their decision-making process make them an unyielding and unpredictable adversary, this is instrumental in the Blight ability to adapt with great speed to defensive tactics used against them, Increasingly, the Blight are utilizing cybernetic technology, replacing large parts of the original body in order to increase reaction time and intelligence, this has also led to the Blight being more willing to take aggressive action than ever before, one consequence of the Blight collective state was that the Blight were utterly without mercy or compassion, only the needs of the Blight collective as a whole are considered, and in this utilitarian calculation the needs of the unrivaled number of Blight would always override any other considerations.
The Blight collective consciousness control mechanism by decentralized control mechanism, the decentralized hub control mechanism is the Blight vinculum, Blight vinculum was device is depicted as a technological device, typically cylindrical in shape, with sickly green glowing green components and intricate mechanical detailing, each Blight vinculum automated directs the actions of each Blight, and automated assigns priorities and tasks via subspace communications, in practical terms Blight vinculum is more akin to central decentralized processer or nexus from which flows the commands necessary to the functioning of the Blight Collective, Blight vinculum also helped empower the Blight hive mind by purging individual thoughts and helped in the dissemination of information throughout the Blight Collective, the Blight vinculum strengthens Blight hive-like cohesion while maintaining the balance of decentralized control, bring order to chaos providing direction and purpose, essentially bringing "order to chaos, essentially the Blight vinculum is black box of Blight Collective, recording and storing all of the information and instructions which the vessel receives and of the actions of all drones on-board, the Blight vinculum also identified errant drones and reinforced them back into the Blight collective, to prevent any tampering, Blight vinculum has many safeguard in its design, including the Blight ability to adapt and rewire its own circuitry, Blight vinculum also possesses its own personal extremely strong shielding which also include protected by multi-regenerative security grids, but also like cells within a larger organism, if one Blight vinculum is destroyed, the others Blight vinculum can compensate and take over its functions without missing a beat, there is also a Blight decentralized plexus," which is described similarly in terms of functionality is the complex in which it's purpose being to link each Blight ship to every other Blight ship operating within the Blight collective itself and Blight Central Plexus also acting as a gigantic relay which receives and processes the hive mind signals from the thousands of Blight decentralized Plexus' from each Blight ship across the galaxy, assimilating all the information received, storing it and re-distributing it across the entire Blight Collective.
The Blight are unified into matrices, large units usually assigned to sectors and duties, these are further divided into adjuncts, these matrix are than compiled into larger groups called Uni-matrix, which serves as subunits responsible for a particular area of operations, these are further separate into trimatrix and octants, acted as massive clusters of computational power, nodes in the large collective, sub-nodes or even entity that might actually be considered roughly analogous with data centers or servers farms. The Blight society, if it can be called such, is structured without a central hierarchy, with each drone functioning as a node in an interconnected network, this decentralized system ensures their resilience and adaptability, as they can continue to operate even when large parts of their collective are damaged or destroyed, their interconnected network structure is redundancy upon redundancy, there is no discernible leader or no central control, absolutely nothing at the top, a vast network of interwoven decentralized nodes, each adding to the Blight collective without a single point of failure, they are collective intelligence, some autonomous collective entity with a simple directive, the Blight's collective lack of hierarchy gives them the edge of pure collective intelligence, a network that functions seamlessly without reliance on a central figure, The comparison to data centers or server farms really drives home how efficiently they process and coordinate, almost like an organism made entirely of computation and decentralized interconnectivity, Blight lack of a central figure or "leader leaves no room for negotiation or a clear target to disrupt their collective, and seem utterly unstoppable because of their seamless and leaderless design, the redundancy built into their Blight network make them impervious to disruptions, and their hive-mind nature gives them an edge of efficiency and adaptability, by having no singular point of failure, Blight system feels impervious to disruption, each Blight node is vital but replaceable, like cells in a larger organism, If one Blight node falters, the rest keep moving forward seamlessly, which is a vision of pure, uninterrupted harmony, making them a terrifying, unapproachable, evoking a sense of an implacable, unstoppable force. The Blight Collective development over time was exponential and war with them increasingly futile as when an individual is assimilated the opponent loses a soldier and Blight gain one, but true threat is that when assimilated an individual is assimilated, their entire experience is uploaded to the Blight neural collective network and all data that person has is now available to every Blight unit, they may suffer from a cultural status form of expansion allows them to develop and learn new technology.
The Blight are not a species in itself, but thousands of species and races assimilated into their collective on their endless campaign to seek perfection. The Blight are a cybernetic life-form, the physiology of each Blight drone varied according to the species which it was assimilated from, roughly half of a victim's organic body is replaced by cybernetic implants and nanotechnology during assimilation, Since the Blight deem aesthetics to be irrelevant, these implants may very well disfigure and mutilate the subject, During the 24th and 25th century the assimilation process has evolved quickly, leading to ever more extreme forms of replacing host organs and limbs with prosthetics, the Blight has enhanced capabilities from cybernetic implant, genetic modification, yet also operates under specific constraints, they can function for extended periods without shelter, food and, water or atmosphere and only require a supply of energy to maintain their implants which in turn maintain their biological function, they can perceive the entirely of electromagnetic spectrum, individual molecules and even geometry of multiple dimension of space time, nature systems in the body have been reinforced and strengthened, while armored plating makes them impervious to many different form of blunt trauma, the energy required to keep the Blight drone functioning is typically provided by specific regeneration alcoves, Blight undergoing regenerating might appear asleep or unconscious, it's individual life signs indistinguishable from the alcoves. the common functionality of Blight drones includes neutral transceivers that keep them linked to the hive mind, protective force fields, and cortical, and neutral processors, these latter devices are necessary to rapidly intake visual information and seamlessly process what would otherwise be overwhelming amongst of institutions and data from the hive mind, assimilation tubules are also ubiquitous with any Blight drones capable of assimilating biological lifeform and local technology, the Blight are highly resistant to energy-based weapons, having personal shielding that quickly adapts to them, other directed energy weapons tend to quickly become ineffective as the Blight are able to adapt to the specific frequencies on which these weapons are projected once a ship or an individual drone is struck down by them.
The Blight Collective are methodical in their targets assigning every encountered species a numerical value rather than its name, the Blight refrain from using the proper name of the species they encounter, instead assigned them their own designation, they will often ignore ambient individuals only assimilating them if they consider them a threat, or if the effort expended to assimilate is negligible, although they do seem to place a higher priority on larger populace such as entire vessels, again, the cost of engagement weighed against the potential gain for the Blight Collective, when Blight first encounters new species, they begin to methodically dissect them literally and figuratively cutting away parts of their technology to analyze, abducting members to assimilate their knowledge and in disposing the rest, if species is found to possess knowledge or technology that can be useful to Blight Collective that race becomes a priority target and Blight Cube is dispatched to begin assimilation of their home systems striking at the center than expanding outwards consuming all in its path, destroying those which resists, many species have been scattered by the Blight Collective their home systems lost, the Blight Collective endless campaign to assimilate other species, particularly those with capable to mount effective resistance, are executed with intricate blend of relentless determined and strategic precision, yet no two species are assimilated using entirely identical methods, even in conventional invasion, where target species is besieged by Blight vessel and drones until their defense are overwhelmed, the approaches is meticulously tailored to exploit the vulnerabilities, unique to each species, sometimes the process is completed in span of weeks or days, while others species might be studied for centuries, the eventually invasion preceded by clandestine observed, abductor and probing attack, this more comprehensive evaluation allows them to develop tailored assimilation protocols and strategies that, like their conventional assaults, are finely turned to the distinctive traits and weaknesses of each species. following the assimilation of a race, the Blight Collective proceeds to extract all currently existing structures on the planet's surface using the cutting beam and tractor pulse, abducting entire segments into orbit and within the vessel, Blight Drones inside of the vessel analyze and assimilate its technology whilst its extracting and refining all of the excess minerals and materials from the extracted structures, following the extraction and refining process, Blight drones beam down to the surface in the thousands which begin constructing hundreds of heavy mineral refineries which intoxicate the atmosphere with high concentrations of methane, carbon monoxide, and fluorine as bi-products of the extraction process, Whilst the Blight Collective are primarily a nomadic space-bearing race they do however occupy planets with a typical population of nine billion drones primarily for the purposes of strip-mining the planets of all natural resources, the mining process creates bi-product gasses that fill the atmosphere with high concentrations of methane, carbon monoxide, and fluorine, the Blight Collective have no regard as to the pollution of the planets' atmosphere due to the Blight drones immunity to environmental toxicants. For that reason, they can live where it would be otherwise extremely hazardous to humanoid lifeforms.
The Blight Collective typically have minimal communication with other species, often transmission a standard message demanding immediate surrender and assimilation, we are the Blight, existence, as you know it, is over, deactivate your shield and surrender, we will added your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, there will be no negotiation, there will be no quarter, You will be integration into the Blight consciousness, you will be subsumed, resistance is futile.
The Blight assimilation typically begins with injection of nanoprobes and stabilizing metals into the host' bloodstream, these quickly begin to override native cell functions as the Blight nanoprobes immediately latch on-to and utilizing a retrovirus, attack the cells by re-writing their DNA coding and altering the victim's biology, preventing the body from rejecting foreign objects and the plethora of synthetic devices to follow, than Blight nanoprobes then begin repurposing cells to generate more of these Nano machines that than spread like a virus in matter of minutes, this spread can actually be seen as the flow of black nanites laden blood spreads draining pigmentation, the first priority target for Blight nanoprobes is to reconfigure the victim's brain patterns including the rewiring of brain chemistry to adapt the individual to the Blight network to allow for the flow of information to intercept the Blight's Hive mind, and link the individual to it, higher brain functionality is subordinated and the host become integrated into the greater hive mind, the individual consciousness of host is fully suppressed and all traces of free will are suppressed. This enables Blight's Hive mind to override victim, and also read the mind of assimilated, often discerning tactics, plans and anything else of relevance, by now victim is now drone, but victim is conscious of everything happening to them, now victim is prisoner in their own body with an infinitude of voices pressing in. Once the connection to Blight Collective is established, a process that that takes minutes at most, the Blight' nanoprobes than begin to form technologies attachment and alteration to the body, readying it for next stages of assimilation, metal plate, tubes, sockets and implants begin to form from nanoprobes which themselves are made from the repurposed matter of victim own body, these implants are centered around the head it seems, but woven throughout the body, at this stage the drone is operational and will already acting on direction of collective, unless there is some vital task for that drone to complete, it will work its way towards the Blight's Hive where it will report for further augmentation, it from here that drones well drones will work on new drone, modifying the body as needed, additional cybernetic implant are incorporated depending on the function the drones is expected to fulfil, there are myriad of different functions that a drone can be adapted for, repair, maintenance, frontline fodder and so on, but there some universal additions, frequently, an arm will be removed and replaced with tool for that of Blight, again based on its function, one hand is usually left unaltered to interact with the various technologies that they will doubtlessly encounter, but also because it handy, usually one eye is gouged out and replaced with Blight' attachment which acts as scanner which has wider view of all spectrum, and armored plating is installed over body, all while the Blight nanoprobes continues to rewrite the body internal into a drone creating a multitude of alterations to meet up with external add-ons, these included installing their adaptive shielding, bolstering the link's connective to Blight Hive Mind, creating cortical implants and reforming skeletal structure with metal, restructuring the entire autonomic and renal system in the body are all being augmented and replaced by Blight devices, Organs such as the heart, spinal cord, blood vessels, salivary glands, pancreas, and sweat glands are all replaced and controlled by devices which allow their bodies to synthesize the nutrients their biological systems require and remove the need for ingestion, the lungs under-go a similar transformation a device is constructed by the Blight nanoprobes which allows oxygenation of the blood and removed the drones need to inhale gasses, the musculature is also greatly enhanced throughout the entire body, with the multitude of alterations drone to the body down to fact that that their very brainwaves are changed, they no longer register on scans as any species other than Blight, the biological components left are fueled entirely by the technology which itself is recharged on regular intervals known as a regeneration cycle in specialized alcoves, at this stage, the drone's mind a part of the Blight Collective, is practically completely overridden, enslaving them to the will of the Blight Collective.
The Blight Collective employ unique and intuitive language known as the alphanumeric code, this code serves as multiple purpose within the collective included information encoding, and transmission, it characteristics by circular symbols adorned with geometric shapes that strategically cut out, those symbols can be obtained across various control panels, labels, and viewscreens on board Blight vessel, the alphanumeric code is written in different directions with horizontal lines floating both left and right and right to left as it name its implies this code encompasses the entirety alphabetic vocals and mathematical properties, its complexity is immense comprising a vast array of 50 distinct symbols that formed the foundation of Blight's linguistic systems.
The technology of Blight is vast as it is the sub of many species pinnacle of developments, they possess trans-warp capabilities through the use of subspace corridors maintained by network of gates and hubs that spans a significant section of space, the Blight the have number of distinct and unique technologies at their disposal from regenerative nanites that can repair entire superstructures to centuries worth of different species arsenals, converted ship taken over by Blight have noted to increase in mass, suggesting advanced replicator technology to convert energy into matter, their distinctive starship are simple geometric shape for each class of vessel they operate with no front, no back, no specific bridge, no living quarters, no engineering sections, or no command center, instead almost every major system is hardwired throughout the ship in its entirety with ridiculous number of backups and fail safes, this means that damaging Blight spaceships is easy but actually disrupting any systems in meaningful way is near impossible unless 78% of the vessel is destroyed even than the Blight can simply rebuild the vessel regenerating major damage, all Blight geometric ships were highly decentralized in structure with no specific bridge, living quarters or engineering sections, all vital systems were spread throughout the ship, made it highly resistant to damage and system failures, 50% of the internal volume is unoccupied and empty space, and a miniscule 0.2% of their geometric ships internal mass are actual walls and floors with the rest being alcoves, corridors, on-board facilities, hangar bays and various other vital systems, When drones run low on power or are simply no longer required for any task, they return to their regeneration alcoves, Due to the massive crew compliment, drones are not typically required to leave their assigned deck; however, they may do so using the ship's transporters, the interior of Blight geometric ships consists a maze of of thousands of catwalks, corridors, power nodes, walkways, hangar bays, pipes and conduits lined with Blight alcoves, all Blight geometric ships possess a generalized interior design, there are no specific bridge, living, or engineering sections, the lack of traditional bridges or living quarters reflects the hive mind nature of the Blight, because all Blight drones possess equal technical knowledge and maintenance capabilities, the nearest Blight drones are assigned to repair any malfunctioning system, reflecting the Blight hive mind's efficient and decentralized approach to maintenance, Unlike the design of all other known races, Blight vessels typically possess no particular exit or entry hatches from the exterior to the interior of the vessel, as the entire ship is essentially open to the vacuum of space, the interior pressure of the Blight geometric ships is however maintained by high energy forcefields and structural integrity fields with multiple redundancies, the Blight geometric ships very appearance is designed to be cold and intimidating, the Blight geometric ship colossal size dwarfing even the mightiest of battleships, despite the unusual design of using symmetrical geometric shapes, there is also a great deal of logic and many advantages in doing so, each side is identically armed and armored, denying enemy species the luxury of any directional weaknesses in defenses and blind spots in firing arcs, each Blight vessel's weapons systems are located differently, which also denies enemy races the capability of immediately identifying and destroying firing ports, the Blight utilize a unique method of powering almost all their on-board systems, maintaining their highly decentralized interior design they do not rely upon a single power core in order to solely generate power for the entire vessel, each Blight vessel generates its own power via power nodes each device capable of generating an enormous amount of power, all Blight vessels however possess hundreds, thousands perhaps even millions depending upon their size and class, these power nodes are spread throughout all Blight vessel collectively producing a sufficient amount of power which the vessel requires at any given time, only a fraction are active at any one time with additional redundant power sources located throughout the ship which activate and begin generating power as another power node fails, as their power demands increase as a result of construct additional weapons and alcoves for newly assimilated drones the vessel may construct additional power nodes, additionally, the method of dispersing their power output makes it almost impossible for intruders to sabotage the entire Blight vessels power systems at once, in the event one power node is disabled only the small section which it powers and the devices in that section lose power for 4.8 minutes causing a manipulation effect in the vessels subspace field before another node activates and restores power, the only system which does not rely upon power nodes are the Blight trans-warp drives which are powered by the Blight trans-warp coils themselves, Each Blight vessel in the Blight contains a Blight Vinculum, these Blight Vinculum, are spread throughout the Blight vessel producing a ridiculous number of Blight Vinculum, and redundant, Blight decentralized plexus was a device present on all Blight vessels that linked it to every other Blight ship, these Blight Vinculum, are spread throughout the Blight vessel producing a ridiculous number of backup Blight Vinculum, and redundant, Blight decentralized plexus was a device present on all Blight vessels that linked it to every other Blight ship, these Blight decentralized plexus also are spread throughout the Blight vessel producing a ridiculous number of backup Blight decentralized plexus, and redundant, the redundancy and widespread distribution of the Blight vinculum and Blight decentralized plexus across every other Blight vessels underscore the collective's resilience and adaptability, even in the event of failures or attacks, the Blight system would continue to function without significant disruption, this level of redundancy and interconnectedness seems to ensure the Blight Collective operates seamlessly and effectively across vast distances.
All Blight design follows a pattern of foregoing shields as a primary defensive measure in favor of relying upon extremely strong, resistant and regenerative hull, while all Blight vessels don't rely on traditional shields as a primary defense, they seemed Instead employ a subspace electromagnetic field that could be altered to adapt to enemy weaponry, one of the Blight vessels greatest defensive features is its enormous crew compliment, responding immediately to malfunctioning systems or ship damage of any kind, subsequently healing and repairing any damaged drones essentially allowing the vessel to always operate at 100% efficiency even during pro-longed battles, whilst Blight drones are capable of responding immediately to enemy boarding parties, they do not typically do so unless specifically instructed to, deeming enemy boarding parties to be of no threat to the vessel whilst surrounded by hundreds of thousands of drones and prevented from escaping by means of transporters as a result of the Blight's multi-adaptive matrix, the exterior hull armor of all Blight vessels and stations have the capability of regenerating quickly and constantly, granting an enormous boost to survivability in pro-longed battles, the exterior of the Blight's hull is covered in all pipes and conduits which act like blood vessels and capillaries transporting automated regeneration units to the damaged areas, healing much like a biological body would, as all Blight vessels rely upon their hull armor to survive, the entire outer hull layer of Blight ship's hull is composed of a resilient ablative armor which possesses the capability of dispersing particle weapons fire, granting extraordinary protection and resistance to even the most powerful energy weapons, whilst the Blight do not use shielding as a primary means of defense, Blight vessels do possess shielding for the purposes of propulsion, internal security and as a second line of defense, Unlike the majority of the other species in the Galaxy, the Blight do not shield their entire vessel inside of a single bubble extended around the vessels exterior, Instead, they cast their shielding across their hull, re-enforcing it, this is done by dividing the external surface area in-to grids, each grid possesses its own shielding known as shield grids, this method possesses several benefits, firstly due to the shielding covering a much smaller area, its strength is far greater, this method also allows the Blight drones in each grid to focus upon maintaining and repairing their own grid with greater efficiency than repairing the shielding across an entire Blight vessel, when the shielding of one section is offline, the rest of the Blight vessel may remain shielded and the Blight drones within the damaged grid focus upon repairing their own shield grid as quickly as possible, integration of these shield grids with a high-level structural integrity field integrity field further increases the durability and damage resistance throughout Blight vessels hull and bulkheads which add a further overall increase to the robustness of the all Blight vessel, another relatively small however extremely effective defensive feature of a Blight vessel are extremely small automated machines named Blight Automated Regeneration Units which operating at the nanoscale, these droids speedily roam the sub-sections, shafts and conduits of Blight vessels, repairing all technology and imperfections in infrastructure within the Blight ship adding additional response time and causing the ship to quite essentially maintain itself and its own systems. yet the most powerful and unique tactical systems present on Blight vessel was it link to the Blight collective itself, the Blight could adopt to enemy weapons and limits their effectiveness while concurrently increasing the efficiency of their own armaments, weapons, tactics and strategies that initially proved viable against will fail over time, their offensive capabilities are incredible formidable as on multiple instances a single Blight cube can obliterate an entire fleet of ships, defensively they possess an adaptive matrix that analyzes incoming energy weapons and neutralizes their effectiveness entirely, varying the method of attack is best way to overcome this but even this will fail over time as you run out options, even If single Blight cube is destroyed, they will eventually send another.
Blight cube is vessel that disregard every conventional design theory, every form of aesthetic, massive and featureless, it exudes sheer functionality, a patchwork of metallic panels and veins of glowing green light, it could appear impassive or even docile giving it no hint to it true power and purpose yet in instance the voice of collective reached out and declared resistance is futile, this is not craft of exploration or even vessel of war, it was physically manifestation of Blight relentless hive mind, unyielding and implacable, it featured no orientation, no embellishments, only the uniformity and simplicity that underscored collective relentless drive for perfection, cold, calculated, harmony, Blight cube is not starship in traditional sense but instead it mobile self-contained fragment of their civilization, within Blight collective hive mind, these vessel functionality as multiple-purpose nodes, serving as platform, enabling the Blight to expand their range of data collection within environment and the tools through which to act on that information, they were critical aspect of Blight overreacting goals and multi-faceted instruments that can acts as vector of assimilation, centered hubs of information processing, launch points of aggressive incursion or facilitators for rapid integration of and adaptation of resources whether organic or technological, Blight cube were high decentralized with no defined bridge, living quarters, engineering or science science sectors, there functionality could instead be replicated within any numbers of modules areas within cube, creating networks of systems with overlapping redundant, vital components were likewise distributed across the whole ship, making cube extraordinary resilient to external damage or system failure, it estimates that cube can remind operational every if 78% of its structure was destroyed. the surface of Blight cube features labyrinth of overlapping geometric structure, plates and mechanism, crafted together without regard for aesthetic or symmetry, Blight cube were massive in size as they measuring in at over 3, 000 in length, beam, and height per each side With a volume of 27 billion cubic kilometers, Blight cube surface was a discordant jumble of pipes, metallic panels and machinery in multiple overlapping layers with sickly green glow emanating from its depths, rather than using a conventional deflector shield, Blight used a subspace electromagnetic fields, this was the first layer of many defenses of cubes and could be adopted to become completely impervious to incoming damage, it could even draw power from weapons fire impacting it, the second layer of defense was outer hull which again was extremely resistance to weapons fire and provided adequate protection, if these formidable defense were breached and Blight cube were damage, the drones on board could regenerate the hull of vessel through unknown process that left detectable subspace field, the more Blight drones were available the faster the regeneration process went, the interior of cube was almost as chaotic as it's exterior with same overtly appearance, the atmosphere conditions inside a cube were maintained at 92% humidity and 39.1 degrees Celsius, subspace particles were also present in atmosphere due to subspace link between each Blight drones, much of Blight cube interior were taken by tens of thousands of regeneration alcoves for it complement drones, each alcoves was allocated to single drone, and was where they essentially slept through while in this state they still contributed their mental capacity to the Blight collective, one of unexpected things aboard Blight cube were the maturation chambers for assimilated children or infant, these young Blight were too physically immature to be fully utilized as drones, so placed in these chambers until they reached adulthood and could fully join the collective, manner by Blight cube conducted sunlight maneuvers is likely only partially understood with vessel appearance lack traditional thrusters or impulse engine, in addition to its propulsion systems, Blight cube were able to utilize the collective vast network of trans-warp corridors and hubs, this give vessel an extreme level of strategies mobility, able to bypass the constraints of on conventional warp travel, due their extreme size however Blight cube needed to project a structure internal fields ahead itself while in trans-warp to compensate for gravimetric sheer, these trans-warp networks allowed Blight cubes to travel almost anywhere in galaxy with to little to no warnings, the weapon Blight cube is considered of an extensive array of disruptor emitters and gravimetric torpedoes, each capable of delivering exceptionally high of destructive energy or payload yield respectively, second armaments included more specifically devices such as magnetometer guides changes or missiles that could be armed with any number of sub-armaments, those were distributed across entirely of cube's outer surface, enabling the vessel to engage multiple targets regardless of their angle of attack, against single opponents a cube could rotate its halls rapidly, bringing multiple weapons points to bear in quick succession, in addition to these standards armaments, Blight cube also employed powerful tractor, these not only left target immobile but could simultaneously drain its shields, an laser cutting beam through an merely scientific instrument is intended for dissection of foreign vessels, also represented also formidable and unique armament by its virtue of its sheer power and precision, the collective was known to utilize this cutting beam during engagements as a method of extending the cube's arsenal, defense systems included subspace electromagnetic fields and adapted alloy that replicated that offered the protection offered by traditional shield and armored hull respectively, a cube onboard drones population could also enacted substantial repairs through its link to collective, essentially willing the ship to repair itself, Deeming it to be both irrelevant and inefficient, the Blight do not eat or sleep, they regenerate, any lifeform which is assimilated at a young age are simply placed within a maturation chamber for 17 cycles and emerge as fully functional Blight drones. The Blight have no need for a typical learning social structure as the knowledge of the entire race is shared with every member as a result of the Blight collective uplink.
The Blight Collective controlled a large swath of area of space spanning over 60,000 light years which, following thousands of centuries of conquest the Blight Collective territory contains millions of assimilated worlds, thousands of star systems, containing trillions of drones, the Blight Collective has assimilated tens of thousands of species, integrated enormously adventure technology into every level of its unique society, the number of vessels which the Blight Collective possess can range from hundreds to millions, depending on the size and class of the ship. The Blight Uncomplex is vast complex composed of integrated network of thousands of structures structures and hubs spanning at least 600 millions kilometers, that housed hundreds of Blight cubes and trillions of Blight drones. transportation is possible from one hub to another without the use of transporters via the transport rails which house small transport vessels and act as a form of road throughout the Uncomplex. The Blight Uncomplex and all integrated substructures are all is designed for maximum efficiency consisting of millions of integrated sub-structures populated by trillions of Blight drones, there are also additional Blight Uncomplex spread throughout Blight space. The purpose of Blight Uncomplex is primarily acting as a gigantic space habitat. The Blight Uncomplex resembles Blight cubes and Blight spheres, both in its exterior and interior, but it's significantly larger, acting as the central hub for Blight activities, it is interconnected by a transportation infrastructure, and uses hundreds of Blight cubes and Blight spheres for communication and control, the Blight Uncomplex mirrors the Blights standard Blight cube and Blight sphere aesthetic, with its sub-structures equipped with similar technology, including alcoves, collective-supporting systems, and defensive mechanisms.
The Blight are depicted as a collective that has existed for thousands of centuries and are a mixture of organic and artificial life, they had been developing for thousands of centuries, evolved into a mixture of organic and artificial life with cybernetic enhancements, the Blight almost certainly evolved from a single progenitor species, but have assimilated so many others across their history, the Blight Collective is no longer tied to any single Biological or technological lineage, at least 10,000 species are believed to have been incorporated into Blight Collective, they are believed to have originated hundred thousands of years ago but only in last millennia has Blight Collective truly stared to expand beyond the boundaries of is home system, once home world system were discarded in order to give birth to vast Uncomplex structures, the rest of Blight origin shrouded in mystery, this enigma of where they came from makes them scarier, they appeared to be akin to a computer virus, they were not necessarily good or bad; they just followed the most logical route to achieve perfection.