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[frostgiant]

(3) Grub Revision: Slime : NUKE9.13, Powder Miner, Frostgiant
(1) Grub Hormone Doping : NUKE9.13,
(2) Vacoule stomachs: frostgiant, Powder Miner

Meant to vote for slime to start with

[frostgiant]

Lithovore Scavenger (T2 digger)

An Evolved digger, designed to follow its lesser cousins into the mines, The lithovore scavenger uses a pair of shovel-like "Mandibles", similar in colour and size to the Digger head, to shove Stone, dirt and the corpses of Diggers into its Large maw. Aside from its mandable and oversized maw, The Lithovore scavenger is 99% Stomachs and Guts.

The creature's maw contains a pair of grinding, Gear like Palates that it uses to crush and mulch its food into smaller particulates, Whereupon it enters a series of the stomach. The first number of stomachs share the same purpose And are design to run in parallel, ensuring that the scavenger never needs to stop eating while it digests its food. After entering these Stomachs, the Stone/dirt and Organic matter are introduced to a powerful acid, rendering it down into a nutritious slurry, with the various matter particulates serving to balance the Powerful acid. After being rent a slurry, These stomachs enter the guts of the beats, where a Miles upon miles of Highly Voracouis guts and cilia, Wound and stacked on itself,  do all they can to extract nutrients from this slurry. By the end of these Extremely Powerful Guts, What remains is excreted as a waste slime, Which will harden on the Tunnel walls and the Scavengers skin.

The scavenger Uses these nutrients to feed a variety of internal "Flora" Kept in a  non-acidic Stomachs while they grow. When the growth process is done, The scavenger can expel These stomach through a series of Sphincters on the outside of its skin. As a result of this, The Scavenger does, however, lack the carapace of its less evolved digger.
This internally produced gut flora allows the Scavenger to feed the Digger swarms that it follows after, COnverting stone, Dirt and digger corpse into food for the rest of the digger swarm and any other hive lifeform that it may accompany.  To prevent asphixotion from a lack of oxygen or dehydration from a lack of water, The Lithovore improves upon the Digger+ internal stomachs, carrying a series of three air stomachs and three water stomachs, ensuring its survival.

LithoWyrm
A large size increase, Sitting nearly 10 times the mass of the digger+, The lithowyrm posses a Massive Drilling head, Capable of clearing large tunnels for its fellow hive creatures to follow.  Earth and stone dislodged by its massive head are soon scooped up by a series of mouths surrounding this drill-like skull. These Mouths transfer the surrounding stone to a series of stomachs were in the stream of Mineral desirous is broken down into a mineral slurry.
This mineral slurry is then used to feed the lithorwyrm, ensuring that the large creature never needs to take a break to feed itself, Instead feeding its bulk on the go.

Excess nutrients are shunted to a series of Limbs hidden underneath its carapace, Whereupon it is stored in "Fat fruit" that are actually even smaller limbs or "Fingers". If the Lithowyrm Begins to starve, it is capable of drawing on these internal fat stores making Starvation incredible unlikely. If accompanied by an escort, The Lithowrom is capable of opening these Carapace spaces, Thus allowing the creatures around it acess to the Fat fruit to feed themselves, In the event that the surrounding terrain lacks suitable alternatives.

This makes a lithowrym and its escort incredibly independent, Capable of creating large tunnels for as long as the creature lives, Feeding itself and its escorts even as they leave the range of the hives supply chain. This could be incredibly useful in the future, given the hive creates some for of Outpost or breeder, Leaving uit capable of creating Small hives that are Independent of any supply lines.
For now, though The lithoworm is capable of the creation of large tunnel networks and Long-range exploration

In the event of combat, The lithowyrm will use its large bulk and Head to reduce enemies to paste, Using its sheer weight and incredibly hard head to shatter most hostile creatures. After combat, The lithowyrm does as it does best and will consume the remains, Feeding itself and its escorts with the harvest of war.

[Naturegirl1999]

(3) Grub Revision: Slime : NUKE9.13, Powder Miner, Frostgiant
(1) Grub Hormone Doping : NUKE9.13,
(2) Vacoule stomachs: frostgiant, Powder Miner
(1) Grub Electro/thermal-sensory Organs: NG1999

[NUKE9.13]

I can also accept Slime+Stomachs. Not on board with doing two (non-evo-rate) Grub revisions, though, cos if one evo rate revision doesn't push us high enough, I want to have a spare Mutagenic Potential to be able to do a second.
PS, Naturegirl, we get two revisions.

(3) Grub Revision: Slime : NUKE9.13, Powder Miner, Frostgiant
(0) Grub Hormone Doping :
(3) Vacoule stomachs: frostgiant, Powder Miner, NUKE9.13
(1) Grub Electro/thermal-sensory Organs: NG1999

[Kashyyk]

(3) Grub Revision: Slime : NUKE9.13, Powder Miner, Frostgiant
(1) Grub Hormone Doping : Kashyyk
(4) Vacoule stomachs: frostgiant, Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Kashyyk
(1) Grub Electro/thermal-sensory Organs: NG1999

[Man of Paper]

(4) Grub Revision: Slime : NUKE9.13, Powder Miner, Frostgiant, MoP
(1) Grub Hormone Doping : Kashyyk
(5) Vacoule stomachs: frostgiant, Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Kashyyk, MoP
(1) Grub Electro/thermal-sensory Organs: NG1999

[Draignean]

Revision Phase 1 - Alpha

Grub Slime
Efficacy: 5 (4)
Causing grubs to secret slime from their pores is a simple matter. Tweaking the toxin balance is more difficult, but quite manageable given your humble objectives. The slime you settle on is colorless material whose toxic effects are a by-product of keratin generation, and cause swelling and local pain with immediacy. Long term exposure to the toxins (for those not immune) has progressive neurological effects with painful twitches that progress to agonic seizures. However, this takes a considerable time, and would likely only result from multiple ingestive exposures rather than a single tenacious grub crawling around. The adhesion tweaking trick is as much a physical trick of flattening its body to maximize surface area as it is a chemical change, but the two together to allow grubs to (slowly) climb and cling at unnatural angles.

Vacuole Stomachs
Efficacy: 5 (5)
Applying the driller+'s holding stomach mutation backwards is a simple process that equips every driller with a not inconsiderable internal supply of resources. While their form of locomotion means that the additional food supply is merely delaying an inevitable end, the air and water stomachs provide valuable improvements to longevity during the creation of longer and deeper tunnels.


It is now the Birthing and Deployment Phase
You have the following organisms available to be deployed,

	500 Grub 350 Grub+
98 Digger 52 Digger+

You can currently deploy to,
 The Parasitic Forest: 0/4
 The Dried Seabed: 0/4
 The Howling Crevasses: 0/4

TURNTURNTURN

[NUKE9.13]

The Parasitic Forest:
  167 Grub
  116 Grub+
  33 Digger
  17 Digger+
The Dried Seabed: 
  167 Grub
  117 Grub+
  33 Digger
  18 Digger+
The Howling Crevasses: 
  166 Grub
  117 Grub+
  32 Digger
  17 Digger+

[Happerry]

Attack everything and see what kills us seems like a good idea to me.

Plan Even Split (1): Happerry

[Kashyyk]

(2) Plan Even Split : Kashyyk , Happerry

I mean, uhh... arbitrary delay so I can finish my map? :p

[Madman198237]

(3) Plan Even Split : Kashyyk , Happerry, Madman

Plan "Go Die For The Cause And Send A Report From Beyond The Grave" is a go.

[andrea]

(4) Plan Even Split : Kashyyk , Happerry, Madman, Andrea

Yes, I guess that at this stage the most productive thing we can do is to just send minions wherever and get better information.

[frostgiant]

(5) Plan Even Split : Kashyyk , Happerry, Madman, Andrea, Frostgiant

Let's see what eats the cannon fodder

[Man of Paper]

(6) Plan Even Split : Kashyyk , Happerry, Madman, Andrea, Frostgiant, MoP

I will also vote for this and include a witty remark and operation name

[Powder Miner]

the extra digger+ sent to the seabed is a CAPITAL OUTRAGE and i WILL NOT STAND FOR IT

(7) Plan Even Split : Kashyyk , Happerry, Madman, Andrea, Frostgiant, MoP, Powder Miner