Editing Quest:Hive Queen Quest (section)

=====Nomadic Spacers=====
The ships composing the Migrant Armada of the Scavengers come in all shapes and sizes, with no constant regarding classification or design. A ship class may last only a few runs before some newly looted technological advancement renders is obsolete, or an enemy strategy demands a firm counter in the form of a new ship design, as such the Armada holds countless ship classifications, with each ship a special work of art incorporating looted technology, experimental systems, and strange, jerry rigged merging of alien and Scavenger equipment. In most cases, looted equipment is seen in higher regard than newly made equipment, as in Scavenger society it is considered a mark of skill to have taken the weapons, armor, or gear of a fallen enemy. In a way such looting serves as a kind of practical trophy, as it allows the Scavengers to rapidly equip their forces with technology better adapted to the local terrain and often more suitable for fighting the local enemy. Once looted Scavenger scientists, if they could be called that, do their best to incorporate any useful new technology into the general manufacturing process, but such new equipment is received with a stigma, as it was issued, not earned, and thus does not denote any skill upon the user in the wider Scavenger society. The only true exception to this is one of the few truly unique developments of the Scavengers, one of the few things they did not loot from others, the World-ships. Each one is work of art, devoted to one of the great Matrons of the fleet, it is believed that there is a World-ship made for every world that has been looted by their species, however their records are not reliable enough to verify the claim, what is certain is that the vast majority of raw resources stripmined from their victim worlds are used in their construction, and they hold the vast majority of the Scavengers' infrastructure. These ships, more akin to mobile space cities, are never deployed deliberately in battle, but instead tend to be parked in an uninhabited system containing resources used to fuel the fleet's war effort, and used to establish a staging area. Each such world-ship contains only a single broodmother, a Matron of the fleet who has proved her worth and ascended to the inner circle of the Scavenger's leadership class.