Editing Quest:Hive Queen Quest (section)

=====Experts in Piracy=====
The original location of the Scavenger home world is lost to them, at least as far as the the interrogated pack leader is aware of. Instead of operating out of any claimed territory they are always on the move, searching for and raiding the worlds of other intelligent races. While these planets do typically offer an abundance of easily extracted resources, which are stripped as quickly as possible, the true purpose of these raids is to loot and study technology and industrial techniques, expanding their own understanding through the efforts of others. Ships that can be retrofitted to be crewed by their own are added to their armada directly, while those too alien are stripped of resources and used to repair old ships, or build new ones. They have developed numerous technology regarding boarding and acquiring ships and are almost entirely dedicated in their biology to zero-gravity combat. Once a system is secure, any remaining industry is used to repair and rebuild their fleet, extract resources, and collect and study technological discoveries, and then depart as soon as possible. During this frenzied time of conquest, subjugation, and inevitable extermination, the Scavenger population swells to match the demand for manpower, but the Armada can only hold so many on its long journey, and competition for a place among the fleet is truly cutthroat, often literally. As the local resistance decreases, infighting increases, and the population rapidly drops as new broodmothers fight for the right to ascend to the Armada as members of the new ruling class. All others are either left behind on a barren world stripped of all means of sustaining life, or die fighting for a place in the fleet.