The Hybrid monarch is an modified version of Zerg Broodmother conditioned to spawn other Hybrid strains.
At least five times the size of a Reaver variant, these powerful beings can depopulate an entire solar system within minutes on their own. The main purpose of the Hybrid monarch was to serve as mobile cloning factories should the Dominion ones be discovered and destroyed. There secondary purpose was to eliminate any threat to the secrecy of the Dark Voice's machinations until given orders otherwise. Should any lower hybrid try to be disobedient or rebellious, a Hybrid monarch can simply trigger the renegade's failsafe or destroy it with brute strength. This has proven especially effective in reigning in even the most dangerous of hybrid variants. If the Hybrid monarch's brute strength and psionic powers fail, it can alter its eggs to a degree to work as randomized makeshift weapons. Effects of these unstable eggs range from random toxic substances to near nuclear level explosions.
Much like the entity from Bhekar Rho, a Hybrid monarch can unleash a devastating absorption wave with the potential to drain small stars. Doing so allows it to perform massive psionic feats just short of a true Xel'Naga. With their tremendous psionic energies, Hybrid monarchs can make a small fleet of starships literally vanish with a stray thought. Once or twice a stray Terran mercenary or pirate band wanders into a classified system to set up shop only to disappear. Few even bother to investigate the disappearances as those groups tend not to be affiliated with any major government.
Special abilities:
- Plasma blast - fires a bio-plasma ball dealing 300 damage
- Absorption wave - creates a psionic field around itself draining everything within gaining energy equal to maximum HPs of all drained units
- Death cry - emits a shriek to cause all nearby hybrid to become invulnerable for 20 seconds before detonating in a psionic blast dealing 500 (+250 vs buildings) damage. Enemies within range reduce attack damage by -20%
- Unstable egg - tosses modified eggs that coat target units and structures in random substances. Substances can slowly erode health, increase damage from other sources, set on fire, or destabilize affected unit or structure into exploding
- Spawn Destroyer - lays an egg that will hatch into a Hybrid destroyer
- Spawn Reaver - lays an egg that will hatch into a Hybrid reaver
- Remove egg sac - removes egg sac that can automatically spawn random hybrids and serve as a respawn site for Hybrid Monarch if killed. Once egg sac is removed, Hybrid Monarch gains +30% speed at cost of -100 health
Notes[]
- Hybrid monarchs provided the Vaul information to convert the Progenitors to their side
Inspirations:
- Alien: Queen
- Warcraft III: Pit Lord
- Star Trek - DS9: Termination implant
- MIB: Quick Clone
- Loonatics: Danger Duck