Taking a page out of @lychee You have died in a accident involving soap, a swimming pool, your hot cousin, and a champion racehorse. When you open your eyes you see yourself in expansive room with the only thing worh a note is a throne. Sitting on this throne is a young woman. She proudly proclaims herself as a goddess and says you will be given a second chance in life. The only problem is that you will have to be the villain that will have to bring a challenge to the heroes of her world. From all the Hollwood movies she's seen she realizes that the best villains have armies of emotionless and monstrous look-a-likes. You have chosen to become a hive mind and are no longer an individual but a force of nature. You are the earthquake, the volcano, the fire. You will consume all and all will be you. a. how does your hivemind look like is it an insectiod, reptillian, mammalian, humanoid, amphibian, fishy, and so forth ? b. What is your primary mode of reproduction to create more drones ex eggs, live birth, sacs, parasitic larvae c. what is you main method of communicating with your drones? Is it pheromones, telepathic, sound waves, light, electrical impulses? d. Where is your starting biome? desert, mountain caves, forests, rain forests, grass lands etc. f.as you grow larger you have formed drones to have greater intelligence in order to act as lieutenants when your mind is else where, what is the level of intelligence and free will for these lieutenants? g. You have given one of your lieutenants too much intelligence and free will and it has decided to break off from you as well as dragging off some of your other lieutenants. How do you deal with a hive civil war?
There is a web novel with this idea on royalroad. I don't want to be the hive queen. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/22115/i-dont-want-to-be-the-hive-queen Guy gets reincarnated into a vex.
There is also a story on royal road where a guy reincarnated as a virus. Not much hivemind but he does have some level of control over the spread as a whole.
While riding on a sweet ass horse with your hot cousin your horse slips because of soap which catapulted you into a swimming pool and resulted in you drowning like a loser
Did I slip off myself to death? I died drowning? I have a HOT cousin? I'm filthy rich? Interesting circumstances on my death... Was I double teaming my hot cousin with our horse with soap as lubricate in the pool?
a. how does your hivemind look like is it an insectiod, reptillian, mammalian, humanoid, amphibian, fishy, and so forth ? A small organism that can hijack the mind of other organisms. As small as possible, I'd be some viral disease if I can choose that. Then, it's time to play plague.inc b. What is your primary mode of reproduction to create more drones ex eggs, live birth, sacs, parasitic larvae Just like bacteriophage, I control my host's bodily function and get it to create my drones. c. what is you main method of communicating with your drones? Is it pheromones, telepathic, sound waves, light, electrical impulses? Telepathy. Either that or with electromagnetic waves. d. Where is your starting biome? desert, mountain caves, forests, rain forests, grass lands etc. Forest. Start out with the simple animals and work my way up. Do research to find a cure of myself and find a way to circumvent it. f.as you grow larger you have formed drones to have greater intelligence in order to act as lieutenants when your mind is else where, what is the level of intelligence and free will for these lieutenants? I don't think it'd count as hivemind if the drones have any will at all. I completely control everything and am capable to do so due tomy nature a hivemind. g. You have given one of your lieutenants too much intelligence and free will and it has decided to break off from you as well as dragging off some of your other lieutenants. How do you deal with a hive civil war? Well let's say that I messed up and that happens. It'd be war then. Assuming they're the same type of hivemind as I am, I can just destroy the hivemind's queen and takeover my drones again
a. I think an army of stone and metal golems would be a great army. Very strong and scary, plus they aren't technically alive sidestepping the moral problems of creating living beings just to be slaughtered. As a bonus, they'd break normal steal weapons so there would actually be a believable reason for sending a party of over-geared elites instead of an army. b. I'd picture it as collecting a pile of the correct raw materials, injecting my mana into it, then it forms a crystalline cocoon looking thing from which a new golem emerges in a few days. c. We'd all be linked together in the magical equivalent of a wifi network. d. An ominous black mountain range with several volcanoes is traditional. It would also have lots of useful minerals and ores for me to use. e... oh wait, you missed e. f. The best part of an inorganic army is they don't have a survival instinct to make them rebel against being sent to their deaths. I'd give them a high degree of intelligence and free thought, but no emotions or desires. g. Call them defective and order them all destroyed.
I was thinking more like the swarm from starcraft. There is a overmind that controls all but there are moments when you cant be every where at once so you give some specialized drones a degree of independence especially when the edges of your hive are too far from your center
a. how does your hivemind look like is it an insectiod, reptillian, mammalian, humanoid, amphibian, fishy, and so forth ? I will look just like a regular human, just to throw people off their rockers b. What is your primary mode of reproduction to create more drones ex eggs, live birth, sacs, parasitic larvae Ever seen how the goblins in GS do it? Yup that is me. c. what is you main method of communicating with your drones? Is it pheromones, telepathic, sound waves, light, electrical impulses? Telepathic is nice, but I know multiple ways to fuck shit up, can I just send messages through the Chaos and hope that they don't vet and change my messages like when I am in China? d. Where is your starting biome? desert, mountain caves, forests, rain forests, grass lands etc. I look like a human, why not a simple village out of nowhere. f.as you grow larger you have formed drones to have greater intelligence in order to act as lieutenants when your mind is else where, what is the level of intelligence and free will for these lieutenants? Free as they may be, but with multiple fucking killswitches and geasses. g. You have given one of your lieutenants too much intelligence and free will and it has decided to break off from you as well as dragging off some of your other lieutenants. How do you deal with a hive civil war? Check answer F.
a. how does your hivemind look like is it an insectiod, reptillian, mammalian, humanoid, amphibian, fishy, and so forth ? Insect. Anything else would feel weird as a hive mind. Like wasps. b. What is your primary mode of reproduction to create more drones ex eggs, live birth, sacs, parasitic larvae eggs or however a wasp grows. c. what is you main method of communicating with your drones? Is it pheromones, telepathic, sound waves, light, electrical impulses? Telepathic wasps. d. Where is your starting biome? desert, mountain caves, forests, rain forests, grass lands etc. Forest so I can hide my wasps in a place with many food sources. f.as you grow larger you have formed drones to have greater intelligence in order to act as lieutenants when your mind is else where, what is the level of intelligence and free will for these lieutenants? I give them slightly more intelligence (enough to interpret my orders their way), but the free will of the overlord guardians (All for Naza- I mean the Hive mind of course!) g. You have given one of your lieutenants too much intelligence and free will and it has decided to break off from you as well as dragging off some of your other lieutenants. How do you deal with a hive civil war? Beat em up with all I got. Starvation tactics mind games you name it. Whoever wins, wins. But I think the F. answer solves this anyways.