"Insectoids and Mythology " Topic

"In the dead of night, they move and consume in the spaces of your house you do not see. When you notice them, you react with violent intent, attacking with rolled up newspapers, poisonous sprays, and shoes. The bug dies, and while you revel in the momentary victory….hundreds of its brethren wait in the shadows. Since the beginning of science fiction, all the way back to 1902, the insect has made for a compelling and enduring hostile alien template. Some of the most iconic military science fiction works have featured insect-based aliens species bent on conquest. From the xenomorphs from ALIENS, the Arachnoids for Starship Troopers, the s from Ender's Game, they all are examples of how sci-fi creators took a commonly held fear and twisted into the creepy, crawling nightmare enemy species waiting for us out there among the stars. In this installment of FWS continual serial of "Our Enemies", we will be exploring and explaining the insectoids.

There is a theme in science fiction of aggressive insect aliens that are coming to ruin your day. They are one of the most common hostile alien species types. When we examine the commonalities of these insectoids we see that most exist within a hive-mind eusociality system where labor is divided and the Queen Mother is all important. Often, the warrior insectoids of sci-fi are drones that rush in the millions at you in waves as your assault rifle barrel burns white hot. This single-mindedness of the insectoids gives them great power and unity but stabs at individuality and creativity. This was seen in Star Trek Voyager when the humans developed a strategy to counter Species 8472 that the Borg Collective union of billions of minds in a hive-collective could not. Often these insectoids are low-tech than their human foes and often use organic or captured technology. At the heart of the science fiction insectoid society is their queen and she is often the only individual character because there are rarely individual insectoids characters besides the queen. This inhumanity of the insectoids is played up in science fiction works and it is one of the reasons that make such great alien enemy templates because we humans are individuals and reveal in it…"
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