On the home world of Palamok, during the post war period, many found themselves trapped in a period of upheaval. The relatively young Queen Tzxyzyl found that the hereditary alliances of her Hive were no longer honoured, as other hives began to encroach on her domain, attacking at the fringes, sacking and burning smaller hives under her control. Realising that a full scale invasion was imminent, she elected to perform drastic action. She would build several colony ships and attempt to escape Palamok itself. Quickly building as many vessels as they could, the hive boarded them and used them to escape before the other hives could crush them. Unfortunately, space was limited, so many thousands of drones would not be able to escape, and fought to the death in a desperate rearguard to protect t