All current interaction with the hive is centered around mining. Levis, Queens, and collectors all mine and the other bots provide support. I propose adding a sector where the hive brings back all the ores it mines for its own manufacturing of new hive bots and the like.

I envision some sort of structure at the center of the hive base with turrets on the exterior (much like a levi) and something like 50 bots including a few queens to protect the hive base.

The added gameplay value would be that there would be 'pods' scattered about the base that when destroyed by doing X damage drop some unique material useful for manufacturing. The real-life equivalent would be getting honey from a bee hive.

I foresee raiding the hive base would be a group activity, with fighters supporting a cargo vessel to collect the drops. Bringing a moth would probably be suicide even with an escort or gunners.

I believe there's already back story describing that Queens and Levis build bots.

The analogy with honey bees is *excellent*. Imagine that this hive base actually looks like a honeycomb (hexagons are the most efficient use of space, so bees are geniuses). I can already see the hive queens buzzing around filling the comb with larvae.

I'm fairly certain that Levis, make Queens which in turn make bots... or something like that, but this is still a cool idea.

OMG...A DOUBLE RAINBOW...ALL THE WAYYYYYY!

Something like this would be cool. I believe Inc said something about reworking the Hive, so there could be something interesting in store for us soon. While levi's are cool, something like this does sound like it could be fun too.

P.S. I read the Hive thing in the latest News Article.

+1.

Maybe have them form something like a Volvox algae colony.

Edit: meridian = Jmvcilus?

This is a very cool idea, +1. Jmvcilus's idea reminds me of Descent 3's interior tunnels. Adding something like that to VO would be AWESOME.

+1