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Martins termites, or Marmites as they are more commonly known as are named from the famous explorer August Martin who wrote the first real books about them before they spread over most of the Floating Lands. Rather ordinary termites except that they have gained low level telepathic abilities through evolution. This gives the habitants of a termitemound the ability to share their individualy limited brains into a shared mind with a intelligence about as strong as a average human. The marmite intelligence eventualy developed their own kind of steam technology. The marmite mounds are now mobile, armored and armed to defend them from predators and enemy marrmite mounds. They quickly spread all over the floating lands from a now forgotten island of origin. They have little interest in things outside their mounds and never attempt to communicate with other sentient races. The marmites usualy never attack first but you should keep your distance to a mound as they will attack anyone who come too close, usualy after a few warning shots.

With the Eurovan expansion slavers discovered that they could use mages to easily controll the marmite hivemind and thus they quickly became very popular as slaves. Today their precision is very usefull in the clockwork industry and most rich households use a mound for pest controll and alarm. Wild marmite mounds are becomming a rare sight but more and more dangerous for any foolish attacker.

Scout.
The marmites are experts in creating small machines, like for example a flying machine with a camera that can be controlled by the hive mind via a worker marmite. Eurovan Inquisitors often use these as spies.

Warrior.
The warrior caste of the marmite mound are armed with super sharp blades and poison injectors on the mandibles. Usualy only found among wild marmites as small and stealthy animals lethal to humans are for a good reason forbidden in enslaved termite mounds. But some assasinations with warrior marmites still happens from time to time in the Eurovan nobility.

Worker.
The vast majority of the marmites are workers who use their small and precise tools to create the miniature machines that makes the mound work.

Queen.
She have the same function as all queen ants and termites: to lay eggs. Usualy protected by armor.

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The last entry in the diary of Eurovan entymologist Harold Martin:

No one listens to my warnings. "The marmites are too important for our economy" they say. "Those little insects can not challenge the might of our empire" they say. But the signs are there for those who can and dares see them:
1. The wild marmites have stopped fighting among eachother. They are in fact sending mails to each other. Written in a code I cannot break.
2. The wild are not going extinct. They are going underground where we cannot harm them. Building Anyone knows what. They are far from stupid.
3. Death from food poisoning among marmite slavers have risen with 700% the last year. The same goes for my fellow entomologists. I fear my turn will soon come.

They don't pity anyone, nor do they take any side than their own. They are after all just insects, even though they are intelligent. They exterminate any threat if they can and we have surely proved to be a big threat. I pray to Sanctus that I am just a crazy old man who have spent too much time studying these creatures but in my heart I know the threat is very real.

Description
For s competition in his

Martins termites, or Marmites as they are more commonly known as are named from the famous explorer August Martin who wrote the first real books about them before they spread over most of the Floating Lands. Rather ordinary termites except that they have gained low level telepathic abilities through evolution. This gives the habitants of a termitemound the ability to share their individualy limited brains into a shared mind with a intelligence about as strong as a average human. The marmite intelligence eventualy developed their own kind of steam technology. The marmite mounds are now mobile, armored and armed to defend them from predators and enemy marrmite mounds. They quickly spread all over the floating lands from a now forgotten island of origin. They have little interest in things outside their mounds and never attempt to communicate with other sentient races. The marmites usualy never attack first but you should keep your distance to a mound as they will attack anyone who come too close, usualy after a few warning shots.

With the Eurovan expansion slavers discovered that they could use mages to easily controll the marmite hivemind and thus they quickly became very popular as slaves. Today their precision is very usefull in the clockwork industry and most rich households use a mound for pest controll and alarm. Wild marmite mounds are becomming a rare sight but more and more dangerous for any foolish attacker.

Scout.
The marmites are experts in creating small machines, like for example a flying machine with a camera that can be controlled by the hive mind via a worker marmite. Eurovan Inquisitors often use these as spies.

Warrior.
The warrior caste of the marmite mound are armed with super sharp blades and poison injectors on the mandibles. Usualy only found among wild marmites as small and stealthy animals lethal to humans are for a good reason forbidden in enslaved termite mounds. But some assasinations with warrior marmites still happens from time to time in the Eurovan nobility.

Worker.
The vast majority of the marmites are workers who use their small and precise tools to create the miniature machines that makes the mound work.

Queen.
She have the same function as all queen ants and termites: to lay eggs. Usualy protected by armor.

...

The last entry in the diary of Eurovan entymologist Harold Martin:

No one listens to my warnings. "The marmites are too important for our economy" they say. "Those little insects can not challenge the might of our empire" they say. But the signs are there for those who can and dares see them:
1. The wild marmites have stopped fighting among eachother. They are in fact sending mails to each other. Written in a code I cannot break.
2. The wild are not going extinct. They are going underground where we cannot harm them. Building Anyone knows what. They are far from stupid.
3. Death from food poisoning among marmite slavers have risen with 700% the last year. The same goes for my fellow entomologists. I fear my turn will soon come.

They don't pity anyone, nor do they take any side than their own. They are after all just insects, even though they are intelligent. They exterminate any threat if they can and we have surely proved to be a big threat. I pray to Sanctus that I am just a crazy old man who have spent too much time studying these creatures but in my heart I know the threat is very real.