Specialist Resources

Outside of the Core Resources frequently handled by the inhabitants of the Webb Star, there are several other resources with specialist uses within the lore.

Hive Resin
All major structures and bio-machinery within the Webb Star are composed of hive resin which is a resilient and hardy material able to block large amounts of radiation found in space.

The material itself is created internally Builder Webblings by consuming biomass and minerals, after which they are able to secrete the hive resin from their body. Depending on the combination and concentration of certain minerals consumed by the Builder, the resulting hive resin will take on different properties, such as flexibility, weight, or heat retention.

Deep Shards
A much more complex form of Memory Shard, deep shards are large crystalline shapes capable of levitation when in the presence of individuals with a large enough psychic presence.

Considered almost indestructible, deep shards are also capable of storing vast amounts of complex psychic information which can be felt as large amount of psychic pressure when in its presence, and as such require specialists to be able to access, interpret, or encode said information safely.

Within the Memory and Deep Chambers lies many deep shards which are used in the Hive Mind’s Genetic Memory Banks, these specific forms of deep shards are semi-sentient, acting as an extension of the Queen’s own mind, and should these deep shards be tampered with, or go missing the Royal Guard are able to track their unique psychic patterns.

Other deep shards not used in the Genetic Memory Banks are extremely rare due to their potential danger and complexity.

Pure Royal Jelly
Never distributed outside of the Royal Chambers, pure royal jelly has almost identical properties to Royal Jelly but amplified several times to the point where Royal Webblings have no immunity to it, and it can only be contained for several hours before breaking down its container.

Pure royal jelly is exclusively used in Ascension Pods for Webblings being reassigned to the Chronicler role.