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Prologue

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uhe planet was not hell.

It just looked and smellec^and tasted like it, ac-
cording to the marines who had come there and
raped it.

Its denizens were not demons.

They were far worse.

The marines simply called it Hiveworld, al-
though the navigators of hyperspace had an ob-
scure numbered tag for it. They had come here, to
this blighted planet, and they had plundered it,
stealing its queen mother.

Without the psychic bonds of the ruler to guide
the lives of her minions, genetic drift occurred. Dif-
ferent queens, pretenders to the throne, developed
and flourished.

All were killed by the most dominant of the
bunch, a traditional creature who could have been

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an identical twin to the queen mother who had per-
ished in a nuclear blast in the Pacific Northwest of
Earth.

Call them "black."

Call her the "black queen mother."

And the new group, the changelings.

Call them "red," though they were not red. To a
casual observer, they looked identical. But to the
"blacks," through touch and smell and morphic
fields, they were anathema. Strangers, aliens.
Freaks that had to be destroyed.

leader of this new brood, living against all cal-
culable probability, was the "red" queen mother.

Bearer of recessive genes, any sign of whose chro-