GREATER GOOD HORNETS STINGTEAM

The conquest of the Hornets Hive System cost eleven years and a casualty count the High Councils no longer publish. What remained was worth it. The Hornets were not broken. They were distilled. Only the converted survived Greater Good 'liberation' , and they are now among the most lethal close-assault units the Greater Good dominion. Males of the species are born aerial hunters. Compound eyes. Instinctive three-dimensional awareness. Twin long-blades designed for the slash-and-wheel of high-speed airborne engagement — a combat discipline older than Greater Good doctrine and impossible to fully replicate in anything that didn't grow wings. They don't fly like infantry with jump packs. They move in agressive murmurations. The title Greater Good race has never forgiven them for the cost. Casualty figures that quietly reshaped promotion lists and redrawn operational doctrines across an entire sector. The Hornets didn't ask to be conquered, and they made that felt in every engagement, every