Mining Outpost IRIS-7 Security Log
Recovered Fragment
The creatures are changing.
At first they wandered through the station without purpose.
Now they patrol.
They guard specific corridors.
They retreat when overwhelmed.
Something is organizing them.
We've found a chamber beneath Processing Sector Three.
It's filled with organic structures.
Eggs.
Thousands of them.
Whatever is growing down there...
it's learning.
End of Transmission
Subsequent analysis suggests the presence of an immature Queen organism.
The emergence of a Queen appears sufficient to restore limited coordination among nearby Cerebroid populations.
Researchers believe this represents the earliest stage of Hive formation.