Editing Quest:Hive Queen Quest (section)

=== Coil ===

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| '''Race'''
| Ceph
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| '''Age'''
| 213
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| '''Place of Birth'''
| The Ocean of Life, [untranslatable]
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Born under the watchful eye of the monolithic crystalline reef of the Ceph gods, Coil spent his life in observance of his teachings and customs. Trained from birth to be a priest, he was given limited knowledge of the ancient wars and history of his people, a history the Hive knows all too well. After coming to the conclusion that other races could potentially be brought into the faith, he embarked into Valen space following the smuggling routes taken by refugees and dissenters with a stolen Slip Drive, intent on finding the location of other races deemed worthy to be accepted into the embrace of his crystalline lords.

By reverse engineering the mechanics of the Ceph 'thought shell', a semi-mechanical device used to centralize the otherwise distributed ceph brain, the Hive was able to replace the shell with one of Hive design, resulting in Coil's eventual conversion away from his religion by a mixture of evidence and subtle alterations to his own internal reasoning.