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Original Species; gonna post their info below. These guys are an open species, BUT you need to (a) keep it canon, I did't write all this info for nothing, (b) let me know if you plan on making one and keep me updated, and (c) credit me for the species.

Species Name: Apidae

Other Names: Kula Ziemska (Smok Term)

Homeworld: SL10223-D (Decimated), Original Name Unknown

Primary Class: Natural Draconic

Intelligence Class: Class 6: Self-aware; building species

Population Class: Group 3: 50,000 or under

Lifespan: Queen: 50 SFP (100 Years)

Forager: 35 SFP (70 Years)

Drone: 25 SFP (50 Years)

Guard: 20 SFP (40 Years)

Average Height of Adult: Queen: 7.6 Meters (25 Feet)

Forager: 6.1 Meters (20 Feet)

Drone: 2.1-2.4 Meters (7-8 Feet)

Guard: 4.6-5.2 Meters (15-17 Feet)

Age of Sexual Maturity: Queen: 10 SFP (20 Years)

Forager: N/A

Drone: 10 SFP (20 Years)

Guard: N/A

Coloration: Queen: Queens are nearly solid in color, though they may have some spotting and slight striping along their bodies. The colors that have been seen on queens are as follows: blue, white, red, yellow, orange, and brown.

            Foranger: Foragers can be warm or cool colors, and they usually have wide stripes running horizontally along their bodies. They often have spotting, and sometimes a few large, ring markings as well.

            Drone: Drones usually have cool base colors, but their markings can be almost any color and it is the drones that tend to have the most intricate and beautiful markings which often include, but are not limited to, the striping and spotting seen on other members of the species.

            Guard: Guards only occur in greens and browns, and their markings are almost entirely limited to narrow horizontal striping.

Diet: Carnivorous

Gestation Period: Developing eggs are carried for 1 week by the queen, and once laid the eggs take about 3 weeks to hatch.

Development: Apidae development is centered on their colonies, and the complex care structure that is formed by the natural social organization of the species. All Apidae are laid by a queen as a small, soft skinned egg. This egg will grow for about 3 weeks, and then hatch once it reaches its full size. Also during this time, a stalk-like organ will grow from the top of the egg, and serves as part of an alert system for the drones that care for eggs and young. When disturbed, the bulbs at the ends of these stalks will open and release high levels of pheromones into the air, which drones will follow to the source, and then care for.

            Hatchlings have the general body plan common among Apidae, but lack any special characteristics seen in adult castes. Drones, and often the queen, will build protection around the helpless young, and begin to feed the little creatures. Different levels of feeding dictate the final form that these Apidae take on, and as they grow, they will begin to develop caste characteristics. The larval stage ends when the young Apidae seal themselves within a cocoon and undergo a period of rapid growth. Once they emerge from this transformation, the Apidae will be physically adult and will cease to grow.

            Schooling in their respective tasks begins shortly after this transformation, and since only the queens and select drones ever mate or reproduce, most Apidae live out the rest of their lives completely devoted to their jobs and their family. In the case of queens, they will spend their early adult years tending to their mothers, and their mother’s offspring. When fully instructed in the traditions of finding a mate a beginning a new colony, the young queen will leave her home and search out wild drones that are willing to mate with her.

            In the case of drones, very few are sexually active, and those few usually leave the colony as soon as they hatch into their adult stage. If smart and strong enough to survive, these males will be present in the environment to accept young queens that set out to start their own families.

            Production of queens and non-sterile drones usually happen towards the end of a queen’s life, and this makes the average lifespan of a colony about 80 years.

Physical Description: There are several different physical subtypes in this species, but all share a general physical appearance. All Apidae have smooth, aerodynamic heads without any discernable eyes or nostrils. The smooth skin of their heads covers the rest of their unadorned bodies, down to their long, thick tails. Drones are wingless, and known to be particularly flexible and delicate. Guards are also wingless, but have long, spiny growths covering their dorsum. Foragers sport wings, and several secondary appendages which run down their bellies. Queens are similar in appearance to foragers, though on a larger, more spectacular scale.

Senses: Apidae have a fairly standard sense of smell and sight, but their sense of hearing is unique among dragons, and is rarely seen in other non-aquatic species. All Apidae have a single row of forward facing slit-openings in their skin, and under each of these openings is a small organ with an anatomy similar to that of the standard ear. A thin membrane separates the outside environment from a small canal structure which is equipped with tiny, vibration sensitive bones, and is lined on either side by hair-like cells. The small bones on the inner side of the membrane pick up sounds as typical hearing organs do, and the repeating nature of the organs on the Apidae body allows them to pinpoint the direction from which sounds come from. Their hearing is sensitive enough that they have limited use of sonar for making out their environment in the dark of the colony. The truly extraordinary use of these openings comes from the silia cells that line the membrane and inner canal, because these structures are hyperconductive and extremely sensitive to electrical waves, as even small electrical signals can charge them. In this way, Apidae can pick up life signs from any organism which utilizes biological electrical gradient, as well as any machines that use such technology. This sense is so acute that it is believed that even residual electricity can be picked up, and that the Apidae may use these miniscule signals to understand the structure of their environment without light, more so than sonar.

Emotions: Queen: Standard emotional spectrum with a single exception; queens bond very intimately with their young. Though they lack any kind of telepathic connection, the queen is utterly devoted to her young and thinks of little else.

            Forager: Foragers have a standard emotional spectrum, though they have a bit of an independent streak to them. Most colonies produce large numbers of foragers, perhaps due to behavioral pressures while the species still existed on its homeworld. Foragers were not only prone to being killed while on foraging trips, but a good number of them would set off on their own, and they will sometimes join other colonies.

            Drone: Similar to foragers, drones are one of the more independent subtypes of Apidae. A few of them leave their colonies to search out young queens to breed with, but despite this self-reliant ability, most drones stay with their home colony because of their close connection with the colony’s children. Drones have a soft spot for any young creature, and they have been known to adopt and care for younglings of other species. They form attachments with juveniles quite easily, and these attachments are maintained even after the young grow into adulthood. Drones also form extremely close bonds with the queen.

            Guard: Guards do experience most of the emotional spectrum, but for the most part, these feelings are overridden by their loyalty to their colony. They are easy to anger, extremely aggressive, and have no apparent care for their own survival.

Communication: Vocal, chemical, and electrical communication are all used in conjunction, making most Apidae languages impossible for other species to speak.

Anatomical Specialties: Besides what has already been discussed as far as appearance and sensory organs, the Apidae have several adaptive traits that characterize the species. First, is the placement of their eyes, all six of which are lined up on either side of their tongue. Without the original habitat of the species intact, it is hard to say why such an arrangement evolved, but it is believed that this, in part, was due to the hyperarid climate of their homeworld. It is theorized that this placement prevents some amount of water loss, since Apidae eyes are not self wetting and are only really used in the rare instances in which their other senses are not offering an individual sufficient information. This system not only cuts down on the number of openings that the Apidae body has between itself and the environment, but it also allows moisture within the mouth to be used in an optimal way.

            The Apidae have a unique skeletal system which utilizes a stiff cartilage-like substance in conjunction with potassium based bones. This allows them to bend their bodies and limbs in places which lack joints, and it makes them quite resilient in the face of physical force. Their unique skeletal system has also allowed the Apidae to evolve a very flexible set of upper and lower jaws, which they can use to move and manipulate their teeth individually. Apidae threat displays often utilize this, as angered dragons will showcase all three rows of their teeth by curling back their lips and extending their jaws out of their mouths.

Breeding Compatibility: Fertile Apidae (Queens or Drones) are compatible with all Nexus dragon species.

Breeding Notes: The Apidae seem to be rather particular about who they mate with, and while some outbreeding has occurred and is possible within the Nexus, they are most likely to mate with members of other species only after a strong relationship between them and the other being has developed. Participation in flights, or frenzies will most likely be rare since this kind of ritual is entirely unknown to the species.

Species Abilities: N/A

Special Species Abilities:

Queen:

            -Gravity Manipulation

- Energy Creation: Queens can use fusion to create energy to be used within the colony or to be used against enemies.

Forager:

            - Limited Gravity Manipulation: Foragers can manipulate gravity in regards to                   themselves, and they can cause small objects to become semi weightless.

    - Atmospheric Storm Creation/Manipulation

    - Shifting Tangibility: Foragers can control how tangible their bodies are, and are    most solid when bringing supplies back to their respective hive.

Drone:

            - Temperature Manipulation

            - Light Manipulation

    - Ice Creation

    - Hybernation: Drones can survive in suspended animation if frozen.

Guard:

            - Earth Manipulation

            - Magma/Lava Creation and Manipulation

            - Create Diamond Coating: When agitated, guards can coat themselves in a diamond-based layer which tends to be especially thick on their spikes.

            - Manipulate Water

            - Control Non-Sentients: Guards have the ability to control any non-sentient life within a 10m radius of their bodies.

Social Organization: The Apidae are aptly named, as their social structure is similar to that of Terran social bees… specifically Apis mellifera. These dragons lack a combined intelligence or hive-mind. Each individual within a Apidae colony is sentient and completely capable of making their own decisions, as well as living on their own, though this is extremely uncomfortable for all but the foragers and fertile drones.

            Apidae politics are biologically determined, and despite the evidence of advances in technology and science that have shown up on the decimated Apidae homeworld, there appears to have been no movement in the species from their traditional, and ancient social organization. Within the colony, there is little by the way of true government; rather, each Apidae subtype rules over its specific function within the colony, and each group makes decisions unconnected to the running of the rest of the colony. This means that foragers keep track of the colony’s needs without consulting the queen or drones, and it is up to individuals and groups of foragers to provide the colony with all its resources. The queen determines how many young to lay, drones determine how and where the young are to be cared for, and the guards organize the protection of the colony. Only in times of great stress do the subtypes bring their governance together. Though such a system appears to be inefficient, this type of governing allows individuals familiar with a certain job to guide policy pertaining to that colony function.

            Quite surprisingly, the Apidae have very little in the way of social hierarchy. All members of the colony are considered equally important, and while the queen often becomes the focus of defense during times of upheaval, she is hardly doted over regularly. If anything, it is age, not subtype, which forms the basis of what little social hierarchy that this species has. Young Apidae, unfamiliar with their jobs and the running of the colony, are usually set to work doing the easiest and lowly tasks, and their voices appear to have the least weight in decision-making. However, younglings are allowed to rise quickly through the ranks, and even the youngest Apidae are not completely ignored when they speak up.

Culture: Cultural development is notably slow in species with such complicated and instinctual social organization, and whatever culture that the Apidae had at the time of their planet’s demise has long since been destroyed by the Smok. What is left to them now is an endless cycle of service to the Pan Smok, who have held their queens captive for generations.

            Among most Apidae living with the Smok, there is a strong, almost religious belief that the other dragons are their saviors. They have been taught that the Smok’s own goddess, whom many of them have taken to worshipping, sent the Smok to the Apidae homeworld, where they found a planet on the brink of collapse and offered the Apidae a place of refuge among them. The captive state of the queens is something that most Apidae don’t suspect, as their lifestyles make the queens rather stationary anyway.

Relations: Most non-Smok are primarily familiar with the guard subtype of this species, and accordingly, this has created a negative image for the species. Guard Apidae are typically considered to be xenophobic, violent, and very loyal to the Smok. Because of this, many outsiders are surprised at the intelligence and generally gentle nature of this species. For a colonial species, the Apidae are also rather welcoming, and unless they have good reason to believe an attack is being facilitated, they will allow access into the colony.

            The Apidae themselves believe that the Smok saved them from their dying world, and thus most of them serve and live among the other species quite willingly. For their part, the Smok treat the Apidae with a level of respect not afforded to the other species that they deal with. Of course, no Smok would consider any other species to be their equal, and even loyal Apidae are sacrificed without a second thought.

            Within the Federation, the Apidae have become closer to the Skala, and the Testasodo Hyre, both species that have had dealings with the Smok. Outside of these species, most Apidae are rather shy, and many seem ashamed of their loyalty to the species that destroyed their home. Though they are repairing their reputation more slowly than the Skala, the Apidae have been welcomed into the Federation by its people, and the Sevar Skai aren’t at their throats, as they are with the Smok.

History: As with the Skala, very little is known about the history of the Apidae, and it is unlikely that much of their history will ever be recovered. It is known, of course, that their world was attacked and its ecology utterly destroyed by the Smok. Left with little other choice, and made to believe that the Smok were there to help rather than destroy, the Apidae allowed themselves to be taken from their world. In exchange, the Apidae swore to protect and serve the Smok, and they have ever since. Only now that the Federation is pulling apart the Smok empire do the Apidae have a chance to make their future better… though they have been fighting tooth and nail to protect their masters.

Description
Original Species; gonna post their info below. These guys are an open species, BUT you need to (a) keep it canon, I did't write all this info for nothing, (b) let me know if you plan on making one and keep me updated, and (c) credit me for the species.

Species Name: Apidae

Other Names: Kula Ziemska (Smok Term)

Homeworld: SL10223-D (Decimated), Original Name Unknown

Primary Class: Natural Draconic

Intelligence Class: Class 6: Self-aware; building species

Population Class: Group 3: 50,000 or under

Lifespan: Queen: 50 SFP (100 Years)

Forager: 35 SFP (70 Years)

Drone: 25 SFP (50 Years)

Guard: 20 SFP (40 Years)

Average Height of Adult: Queen: 7.6 Meters (25 Feet)

Forager: 6.1 Meters (20 Feet)

Drone: 2.1-2.4 Meters (7-8 Feet)

Guard: 4.6-5.2 Meters (15-17 Feet)

Age of Sexual Maturity: Queen: 10 SFP (20 Years)

Forager: N/A

Drone: 10 SFP (20 Years)

Guard: N/A

Coloration: Queen: Queens are nearly solid in color, though they may have some spotting and slight striping along their bodies. The colors that have been seen on queens are as follows: blue, white, red, yellow, orange, and brown.

            Foranger: Foragers can be warm or cool colors, and they usually have wide stripes running horizontally along their bodies. They often have spotting, and sometimes a few large, ring markings as well.

            Drone: Drones usually have cool base colors, but their markings can be almost any color and it is the drones that tend to have the most intricate and beautiful markings which often include, but are not limited to, the striping and spotting seen on other members of the species.

            Guard: Guards only occur in greens and browns, and their markings are almost entirely limited to narrow horizontal striping.

Diet: Carnivorous

Gestation Period: Developing eggs are carried for 1 week by the queen, and once laid the eggs take about 3 weeks to hatch.

Development: Apidae development is centered on their colonies, and the complex care structure that is formed by the natural social organization of the species. All Apidae are laid by a queen as a small, soft skinned egg. This egg will grow for about 3 weeks, and then hatch once it reaches its full size. Also during this time, a stalk-like organ will grow from the top of the egg, and serves as part of an alert system for the drones that care for eggs and young. When disturbed, the bulbs at the ends of these stalks will open and release high levels of pheromones into the air, which drones will follow to the source, and then care for.

            Hatchlings have the general body plan common among Apidae, but lack any special characteristics seen in adult castes. Drones, and often the queen, will build protection around the helpless young, and begin to feed the little creatures. Different levels of feeding dictate the final form that these Apidae take on, and as they grow, they will begin to develop caste characteristics. The larval stage ends when the young Apidae seal themselves within a cocoon and undergo a period of rapid growth. Once they emerge from this transformation, the Apidae will be physically adult and will cease to grow.

            Schooling in their respective tasks begins shortly after this transformation, and since only the queens and select drones ever mate or reproduce, most Apidae live out the rest of their lives completely devoted to their jobs and their family. In the case of queens, they will spend their early adult years tending to their mothers, and their mother’s offspring. When fully instructed in the traditions of finding a mate a beginning a new colony, the young queen will leave her home and search out wild drones that are willing to mate with her.

            In the case of drones, very few are sexually active, and those few usually leave the colony as soon as they hatch into their adult stage. If smart and strong enough to survive, these males will be present in the environment to accept young queens that set out to start their own families.

            Production of queens and non-sterile drones usually happen towards the end of a queen’s life, and this makes the average lifespan of a colony about 80 years.

Physical Description: There are several different physical subtypes in this species, but all share a general physical appearance. All Apidae have smooth, aerodynamic heads without any discernable eyes or nostrils. The smooth skin of their heads covers the rest of their unadorned bodies, down to their long, thick tails. Drones are wingless, and known to be particularly flexible and delicate. Guards are also wingless, but have long, spiny growths covering their dorsum. Foragers sport wings, and several secondary appendages which run down their bellies. Queens are similar in appearance to foragers, though on a larger, more spectacular scale.

Senses: Apidae have a fairly standard sense of smell and sight, but their sense of hearing is unique among dragons, and is rarely seen in other non-aquatic species. All Apidae have a single row of forward facing slit-openings in their skin, and under each of these openings is a small organ with an anatomy similar to that of the standard ear. A thin membrane separates the outside environment from a small canal structure which is equipped with tiny, vibration sensitive bones, and is lined on either side by hair-like cells. The small bones on the inner side of the membrane pick up sounds as typical hearing organs do, and the repeating nature of the organs on the Apidae body allows them to pinpoint the direction from which sounds come from. Their hearing is sensitive enough that they have limited use of sonar for making out their environment in the dark of the colony. The truly extraordinary use of these openings comes from the silia cells that line the membrane and inner canal, because these structures are hyperconductive and extremely sensitive to electrical waves, as even small electrical signals can charge them. In this way, Apidae can pick up life signs from any organism which utilizes biological electrical gradient, as well as any machines that use such technology. This sense is so acute that it is believed that even residual electricity can be picked up, and that the Apidae may use these miniscule signals to understand the structure of their environment without light, more so than sonar.

Emotions: Queen: Standard emotional spectrum with a single exception; queens bond very intimately with their young. Though they lack any kind of telepathic connection, the queen is utterly devoted to her young and thinks of little else.

            Forager: Foragers have a standard emotional spectrum, though they have a bit of an independent streak to them. Most colonies produce large numbers of foragers, perhaps due to behavioral pressures while the species still existed on its homeworld. Foragers were not only prone to being killed while on foraging trips, but a good number of them would set off on their own, and they will sometimes join other colonies.

            Drone: Similar to foragers, drones are one of the more independent subtypes of Apidae. A few of them leave their colonies to search out young queens to breed with, but despite this self-reliant ability, most drones stay with their home colony because of their close connection with the colony’s children. Drones have a soft spot for any young creature, and they have been known to adopt and care for younglings of other species. They form attachments with juveniles quite easily, and these attachments are maintained even after the young grow into adulthood. Drones also form extremely close bonds with the queen.

            Guard: Guards do experience most of the emotional spectrum, but for the most part, these feelings are overridden by their loyalty to their colony. They are easy to anger, extremely aggressive, and have no apparent care for their own survival.

Communication: Vocal, chemical, and electrical communication are all used in conjunction, making most Apidae languages impossible for other species to speak.

Anatomical Specialties: Besides what has already been discussed as far as appearance and sensory organs, the Apidae have several adaptive traits that characterize the species. First, is the placement of their eyes, all six of which are lined up on either side of their tongue. Without the original habitat of the species intact, it is hard to say why such an arrangement evolved, but it is believed that this, in part, was due to the hyperarid climate of their homeworld. It is theorized that this placement prevents some amount of water loss, since Apidae eyes are not self wetting and are only really used in the rare instances in which their other senses are not offering an individual sufficient information. This system not only cuts down on the number of openings that the Apidae body has between itself and the environment, but it also allows moisture within the mouth to be used in an optimal way.

            The Apidae have a unique skeletal system which utilizes a stiff cartilage-like substance in conjunction with potassium based bones. This allows them to bend their bodies and limbs in places which lack joints, and it makes them quite resilient in the face of physical force. Their unique skeletal system has also allowed the Apidae to evolve a very flexible set of upper and lower jaws, which they can use to move and manipulate their teeth individually. Apidae threat displays often utilize this, as angered dragons will showcase all three rows of their teeth by curling back their lips and extending their jaws out of their mouths.

Breeding Compatibility: Fertile Apidae (Queens or Drones) are compatible with all Nexus dragon species.

Breeding Notes: The Apidae seem to be rather particular about who they mate with, and while some outbreeding has occurred and is possible within the Nexus, they are most likely to mate with members of other species only after a strong relationship between them and the other being has developed. Participation in flights, or frenzies will most likely be rare since this kind of ritual is entirely unknown to the species.

Species Abilities: N/A

Special Species Abilities:

Queen:

            -Gravity Manipulation

- Energy Creation: Queens can use fusion to create energy to be used within the colony or to be used against enemies.

Forager:

            - Limited Gravity Manipulation: Foragers can manipulate gravity in regards to                   themselves, and they can cause small objects to become semi weightless.

    - Atmospheric Storm Creation/Manipulation

    - Shifting Tangibility: Foragers can control how tangible their bodies are, and are    most solid when bringing supplies back to their respective hive.

Drone:

            - Temperature Manipulation

            - Light Manipulation

    - Ice Creation

    - Hybernation: Drones can survive in suspended animation if frozen.

Guard:

            - Earth Manipulation

            - Magma/Lava Creation and Manipulation

            - Create Diamond Coating: When agitated, guards can coat themselves in a diamond-based layer which tends to be especially thick on their spikes.

            - Manipulate Water

            - Control Non-Sentients: Guards have the ability to control any non-sentient life within a 10m radius of their bodies.

Social Organization: The Apidae are aptly named, as their social structure is similar to that of Terran social bees… specifically Apis mellifera. These dragons lack a combined intelligence or hive-mind. Each individual within a Apidae colony is sentient and completely capable of making their own decisions, as well as living on their own, though this is extremely uncomfortable for all but the foragers and fertile drones.

            Apidae politics are biologically determined, and despite the evidence of advances in technology and science that have shown up on the decimated Apidae homeworld, there appears to have been no movement in the species from their traditional, and ancient social organization. Within the colony, there is little by the way of true government; rather, each Apidae subtype rules over its specific function within the colony, and each group makes decisions unconnected to the running of the rest of the colony. This means that foragers keep track of the colony’s needs without consulting the queen or drones, and it is up to individuals and groups of foragers to provide the colony with all its resources. The queen determines how many young to lay, drones determine how and where the young are to be cared for, and the guards organize the protection of the colony. Only in times of great stress do the subtypes bring their governance together. Though such a system appears to be inefficient, this type of governing allows individuals familiar with a certain job to guide policy pertaining to that colony function.

            Quite surprisingly, the Apidae have very little in the way of social hierarchy. All members of the colony are considered equally important, and while the queen often becomes the focus of defense during times of upheaval, she is hardly doted over regularly. If anything, it is age, not subtype, which forms the basis of what little social hierarchy that this species has. Young Apidae, unfamiliar with their jobs and the running of the colony, are usually set to work doing the easiest and lowly tasks, and their voices appear to have the least weight in decision-making. However, younglings are allowed to rise quickly through the ranks, and even the youngest Apidae are not completely ignored when they speak up.

Culture: Cultural development is notably slow in species with such complicated and instinctual social organization, and whatever culture that the Apidae had at the time of their planet’s demise has long since been destroyed by the Smok. What is left to them now is an endless cycle of service to the Pan Smok, who have held their queens captive for generations.

            Among most Apidae living with the Smok, there is a strong, almost religious belief that the other dragons are their saviors. They have been taught that the Smok’s own goddess, whom many of them have taken to worshipping, sent the Smok to the Apidae homeworld, where they found a planet on the brink of collapse and offered the Apidae a place of refuge among them. The captive state of the queens is something that most Apidae don’t suspect, as their lifestyles make the queens rather stationary anyway.

Relations: Most non-Smok are primarily familiar with the guard subtype of this species, and accordingly, this has created a negative image for the species. Guard Apidae are typically considered to be xenophobic, violent, and very loyal to the Smok. Because of this, many outsiders are surprised at the intelligence and generally gentle nature of this species. For a colonial species, the Apidae are also rather welcoming, and unless they have good reason to believe an attack is being facilitated, they will allow access into the colony.

            The Apidae themselves believe that the Smok saved them from their dying world, and thus most of them serve and live among the other species quite willingly. For their part, the Smok treat the Apidae with a level of respect not afforded to the other species that they deal with. Of course, no Smok would consider any other species to be their equal, and even loyal Apidae are sacrificed without a second thought.

            Within the Federation, the Apidae have become closer to the Skala, and the Testasodo Hyre, both species that have had dealings with the Smok. Outside of these species, most Apidae are rather shy, and many seem ashamed of their loyalty to the species that destroyed their home. Though they are repairing their reputation more slowly than the Skala, the Apidae have been welcomed into the Federation by its people, and the Sevar Skai aren’t at their throats, as they are with the Smok.

History: As with the Skala, very little is known about the history of the Apidae, and it is unlikely that much of their history will ever be recovered. It is known, of course, that their world was attacked and its ecology utterly destroyed by the Smok. Left with little other choice, and made to believe that the Smok were there to help rather than destroy, the Apidae allowed themselves to be taken from their world. In exchange, the Apidae swore to protect and serve the Smok, and they have ever since. Only now that the Federation is pulling apart the Smok empire do the Apidae have a chance to make their future better… though they have been fighting tooth and nail to protect their masters.