Jump 197: SimAnt

Jump 197: SimAnt
>Six of Cups (Pleasure), reversed: Closing your heart to the simple pleasures of life.
Fun? There's no time for fun. I have a world to conquer.
>Location: Playground
>Identity: Royalty Caste
>Drawbacks: Red vs Black (x4, +400), After Man (+200)
>Ant Telepathy (Free)
If I go to Worm and don't end up being Taylor's shard I'm going to find a way to give this to her simply for the sake of hilarity.
Drink.
>Tunneling (1500)
Now this'll be useful... I am of course assuming the rest of the ants get use of this perk. Turning the whole of the playground into a massive hive to expand outward is definitely a plus. After we take out those other ant colonies that border us on all sides.
>Army Ant (900)
Well isn't this handy! I can actually direct the colony in what to do and how to fight. And how convenient, I have telepathy to communicate with them instantaneously. And as if that weren't enough, I've got perks that will let me see exactly what the colony is doing in real time, thank you clairvoyance. This will be interesting.
>Wings (Free, Royalty)
Having wings is just spiffy. I'm going to have to use my powers from Evo here and modify the colony so that everyone has a pair of wings. An EFFICIENT pair of wings. I don't know if you've ever seen winged ants, but the wings are usually temporary and pretty awkward.
>For Queen and Colony (800, Royalty)
Clear communication is important if I'm directing what is intended to be the single largest ant colony on the planet.
>Royal Duties (500, Royalty)
So... I'm a bit unclear on this. Am I the queen now? I can work with this. Especially if I intentionally make the bulk of the ants in the colony larger - this'll be very important. Obviously there's a corresponding increase in resources needed for that, but that will be just fine by me.
>Killer Queen (0, Royalty)
Okay. Now we're getting somewhere. It'll be useful to be able to consume other colonies' ants so that I've got doppelgangers to use and turn on them. More importantly... roaches. Consume, replicate, use them to find where they're based out of, then consume them all for resources. Dead ants on my side? Resurrect. In fact, I intend to use this in future jumps - if I can't use magic to resurrect someone, I'll use one of my various alt forms to absorb their body and build them a new one. Perhaps with a small bit of experimentation I can ensure their soul sticks with it, too.

As I said, my plans are simple. I'm going to be an intelligent agent behind the ant colony, I'm going to make sure it expands to encompass as much land mass as I can (without completely annihilating the ecosystem), and have a lot of fun with gene tinkering via Evo and Starcraft.

Because when you cross zerglings and ants, you get hilarious and horrifying results, without question.