Now I'm imagining a huge hive of hummingbirds. Complete with a parrot or something as a queenbird.
Funny thing, as part of my universe I use to come up with ideas and such for, back in the day, I came up with a bird race that worked similar to the Covenant in Halo, except in bird-species classes, similar to this structure. Hummingbirds were small and frail, but fast, and extremely well-coordinated, and because of their unique coordination abilities, they're solely responsible for flying boomerang blade-craft, which are engineered in a way that allows their ships to cut other ships apart by spinning motion, much like a boomerang flies. They're mostly used for shredding capital ships via 'melee contact'; kudos to a sturdy skeleton, and diamond-tipped wingtips encompassing the entire wingspan.
Of course, with the said race, they all fly ships modeled after different bladed weapons, as part of their gimmick; and all ships are made to go full-contact when going at ramming speed, as well as augmented with jump jets across the fuselages in order to orient their ship in a manner as if they were being swung by the gods in mid-air. In traditional combat for them, they rely mostly on melee-contact methods (mostly a cultural thing), but they are also armed to the teeth to take out other ships the standard shooting method (You can say they were also inspired by the Yehat and Pkunk). Besides some aerial melees for most of them to be designed around, some are also massive invasion craft that fall from space and demolish cities by hitting the ground hard, sending out a bunch of bombs within a radius, and then activating their anti-infantry and anti-air cannons as the rest of the invasion forces come down from the sky; and those are the first 2 minutes of their strike. Such a strike is remniscant of the beginning of Chronicles of Riddick. Cities and military complexes fall in such little time.
Naturally, the other species operate as you'd think they would. Falcons and eagles are the commanding officer league, owls are wise magicians and seers, and also lead commanders with an Oracle title, Parrots are diplomats, and so on and so forth. They were quite fun to work on in my free time; especially where their weapons and ships were concerned, as well as a bit of their culture.
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