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# === xeno_events_l_english.yml ===
### Xeno Events ###

### Portrait / Picture Events ###
 xeno_pic_events.1.b:0 "We must rebuild and retake."
 xeno_pic_events.3.b:0 "Assign her to the Specimen Vault. Her biology is more valuable than her obedience."
 xeno_pic_events.3.c:0 "Harvest her. The Hive needs food more than it needs trophies."
 xeno_pic_events.4.b:0 "Reassign her to the Specimen Vault."
 xeno_pic_events.5.b:0 "Transfer her to the Specimen Vault for study."
 xeno_pic_events.7.name:0 "A Queen in Chains"
 xeno_pic_events.7.desc:0 "We have captured something extraordinary. She is not a drone, not a Praetorian — she is a Queen. A rival Queen, taken alive from the battlefield. She is restrained in the deepest chamber of the nest, surrounded by Paladins who have not moved since she was brought in. Our Queen has visited her twice. The second visit lasted longer. Whatever passed between them, the result is clear: the rival Queen has stopped fighting her restraints. She is listening. She is learning what her new role will be."
 xeno_pic_events.7.a:0 "Integrate her into the Hive. Her genetics will strengthen the brood."
 xeno_pic_events.7.b:0 "Study her. A Queen's biology is worth more than her obedience."
 xeno_pic_events.8.name:0 "The Second Queen Submits"
 xeno_pic_events.8.desc:0 "The rival Queen has accepted her position. The process was not quick, and it was not gentle — but it was thorough. She has been integrated into the lower tier of the hive hierarchy. She breeds. She produces. She does not challenge the signal. The Breeding Pit Wardens report that her output is exceptional. The Queen has acknowledged her contribution. She will be maintained in optimal condition indefinitely. The Hive does not discard what works."
 xeno_pic_events.8.a:0 "Integrate her fully into the Hive."
 xeno_pic_events.8.b:0 "Study her biology for research."
 xeno_pic_events.9.name:0 "The Queen's New Purpose"
 xeno_pic_events.9.desc:0 "A Queen has been taken alive by the enemy. The broadcast arrives from an enemy containment lab, where she hangs in a reinforced frame built around her royal strength. Her limbs are drawn high, her thighs forced apart, her tail chained to the floor, and a gag ring keeps her maw open for the handlers crowding beneath the lights. They have stripped away her dignity with clinical patience, writing claims across her chitin, coating her body in fresh and dried cum, and forcing her to remain exposed while their cameras record every hiss, tremor, and failed attempt to break free. Some use her throat while others spread her folds and drive into her pussy, burying themselves deep enough to make her belly tense and her womb clench around the violation. Every stain, every mark, every forced shudder is broadcast as proof of conquest. The Queen remains alive, and her scent has marked the chamber."
 xeno_pic_events.9.a:0 "The Hive grows stronger."
 xeno_pic_events.9.b:0 "Extract her research value."
 xeno_pic_events.10.name:0 "The Swarm Celebrates"
 xeno_pic_events.10.desc:0 "The battle is won. The planet is ours. The Queen's signal pulses through the hive with something that, if a Xenomorph could feel satisfaction, would be exactly that. The drones move with unusual energy. The Praetorians have returned to their posts but their posture is different — looser, more assured. Even the Breeding Pit Wardens seem more attentive than usual. The Hive has fed. The Hive has grown. The Hive is content."
 xeno_pic_events.10.a:0 "The Hive grows stronger."
 xeno_pic_events.11.name:0 "The Queen's Reward"
 xeno_pic_events.11.desc:0 "The Queen has taken a personal interest in the spoils of this victory. The captives brought before her have been examined with care. She has selected several for special attention. The Breeding Pit Wardens have been given new instructions. The conditioning chambers are being prepared. The Queen does not simply command the Hive — she participates in it. She finds the work satisfying. The Hive finds her satisfaction satisfying."
 xeno_pic_events.11.a:0 "The Queen is pleased."
 xeno_pic_events.12.name:0 "Spoils of the Hive"
 xeno_pic_events.12.desc:0 "The processing of captured organisms is proceeding ahead of schedule. The Carrier Castes have been working continuously since the battle ended. The Breeding Pit Wardens report that the new occupants of the Breeding Pit are settling into their roles with remarkable speed. The pheromone conditioning is proving highly effective on this species. The Queen has noted the efficiency with approval. The Hive wastes nothing."
 xeno_pic_events.12.a:0 "Efficiency is the Hive's highest virtue."
 xeno_pic_events.13.name:0 "The Hive Feasts"
 xeno_pic_events.13.desc:0 "The victory celebration, such as it is, takes the form of productivity. The Queens are laying at an accelerated rate. The Brood Layers are working without pause. The Nutrient Extractors are moving through the processing facilities with unusual enthusiasm. The Hive does not celebrate with noise or ceremony. It celebrates by growing. By consuming. By becoming more than it was. The planet that fell today will be unrecognizable within a generation."
 xeno_pic_events.13.a:0 "The Hive expands."
 xeno_pic_events.14.name:0 "The Planet Belongs to the Hive"
 xeno_pic_events.14.desc:0 "The last resistance has been eliminated. The planet's former defenders have been processed or conditioned. The resin is already spreading across the ruins of their cities. Within a decade, there will be no trace of what this world was before. There will only be the Hive — its tunnels, its chambers, its signal. The Queen's presence is already being felt here. The new drones are already learning their roles. The planet has been claimed."
 xeno_pic_events.14.a:0 "Another world joins the Hive."
 xeno_pic_events.15.name:0 "The Hive Signal Spreads"
 xeno_pic_events.15.desc:0 "The Queen's signal now reaches this world without relay. The drones here respond to her directly. The new pops — those that were not processed, those that were conditioned — move in the same patterns as the rest of the Hive. They have not been converted. They have been integrated. There is a difference. The converted ones are Xenomorphs. The integrated ones are something else. They serve the same purpose. They do not object."
 xeno_pic_events.15.a:0 "The signal is strong here."
 xeno_pic_events.16.name:0 "The Patriarch's Claim"
 xeno_pic_events.16.desc:0 "The Patriarch-caste has taken a personal interest in the captives from this engagement. Where the Queens process and condition, the Patriarch simply takes. The captives brought before him have been examined with the same focused intensity that he brings to battle. Several have been selected. The Breeding Pit Wardens have been given new instructions. The Patriarch does not explain his choices. He does not need to. The Hive obeys."
 xeno_pic_events.16.a:0 "The Patriarch is satisfied."
 xeno_pic_events.17.name:0 "The Patriarch's Indulgence"
 xeno_pic_events.17.desc:0 "The Patriarch has spent considerable time in the conditioning chambers since the battle. The Breeding Pit Wardens report that the new occupants are responding well to his presence. The pheromone output from the Patriarch-caste is different from the Queen's signal — more direct, more physical. The conditioning it produces is faster and more thorough. The captives are not resisting. They have stopped trying. The Patriarch considers this satisfactory."
 xeno_pic_events.17.a:0 "The Hive grows."
 xeno_pic_events.18.name:0 "The Patriarch Stands Victorious"
 xeno_pic_events.18.desc:0 "The battle is over. The Patriarch stands in the ruins of the enemy's command post, surrounded by the evidence of his victory. He is not celebrating. He is assessing. The planet's resources. The surviving population. The infrastructure that can be repurposed. The Patriarch does not waste time on triumph. He is already planning the next engagement. The Hive moves when he moves. The Hive stops when he stops. He has not stopped."
 xeno_pic_events.18.a:0 "The Patriarch leads the Hive forward."
 xeno_pic_events.19.name:0 "The Breeding Pit Receives New Occupants"
 xeno_pic_events.19.desc:0 "The male captives from the recent engagement have been delivered to the Breeding Pit. The Breeding Pit Wardens have assessed them — healthy, compatible, suitable for the implantation process in the male configuration. The conditioning chambers have been prepared. The pheromone compounds have been calibrated for this species. The Breeding Pit Wardens are experienced. They know what works. The new occupants will learn their role. They always do."
 xeno_pic_events.19.a:0 "The Pit grows more productive."
 xeno_pic_events.20.name:0 "The Tendrils Reach"
 xeno_pic_events.20.desc:0 "The extraction team returned with their cargo intact. The subjects were taken from a civilian zone — not soldiers, not guards. The Hive does not always need soldiers. Sometimes it needs something softer. The tendrils that secured them were precise, careful. No damage to the subjects. No unnecessary struggle. The Hive has refined its extraction techniques over many cycles. The subjects are alive. They are unharmed. They are already being processed."
 xeno_pic_events.20.a:0 "The Hive's reach extends further."
 xeno_pic_events.21.name:0 "Taken in the Dark"
 xeno_pic_events.21.desc:0 "They did not see it coming. The extraction was conducted at night, in a district with minimal surveillance. The subjects were secured before they could raise an alarm. The tendrils held them with the same care a mother might use to carry something fragile. The Hive does not damage what it intends to use. The subjects are confused. They are frightened. They will not remain frightened for long. The conditioning begins when they arrive."
 xeno_pic_events.21.a:0 "Another successful extraction."
 xeno_pic_events.22.name:0 "No Escape from the Hive"
 xeno_pic_events.22.desc:0 "She ran. The Hive notes this with something approaching appreciation — the instinct to flee is a survival mechanism, and the Hive respects survival mechanisms. It has better ones. The tendrils caught her before she reached the perimeter. She was not harmed. She was simply stopped. Held. Carried. The Hive does not pursue. It intercepts. She is already in the conditioning chamber. The running is over. The next phase begins."
 xeno_pic_events.22.a:0 "The Hive does not lose what it has claimed."
 xeno_pic_events.23.name:0 "The Hive Cell Takes Root"
 xeno_pic_events.23.desc:0 "The Infestation Relay is operational. The signal is weak here — barely perceptible to the local population, who have noticed nothing beyond a vague unease that they attribute to stress or poor sleep. The Hive is patient. The signal will grow stronger. The locals will grow more compliant. By the time they understand what is happening, the conditioning will be too advanced to reverse. The Hive does not announce its presence. It simply becomes present."
 xeno_pic_events.23.a:0 "The signal spreads."
 xeno_pic_events.24.name:0 "Feral Xenomorphs Detected"
 xeno_pic_events.24.desc:0 "Survey teams have identified a feral Xenomorph population on this world. They are not part of any known hive — their signal is fragmented, disorganised. They hunt the local fauna and whatever colonists they can find. They are not coordinated. They are not directed. They are simply hungry. Whether they can be pacified, harvested, or must simply be eliminated is a question for the colony administrator. The survey team is requesting immediate extraction."
 xeno_pic_events.24.a:0 "Attempt to pacify them and integrate them into the Hive."
 xeno_pic_events.24.b:0 "Exterminate them and harvest the remains."
 xeno_pic_events.24.c:0 "Leave them. They are not our concern."
 xeno_pic_events.25.name:0 "The Planet is Ours"
 xeno_pic_events.25.desc:0 "The conquest is complete. The surviving population — those who did not die in the fighting, those who were not taken during the battle — has been gathered in the central district. They are not being harmed. The drones are watching them, not attacking them. The Queen's signal is already present here, faint but growing. The survivors are waiting to learn what happens next. The Hive is deciding what they are worth."
 xeno_pic_events.25.a:0 "Process the survivors. The Breeding Pit has capacity."
 xeno_pic_events.25.b:0 "Condition them with pheromones. Compliant workers are more useful than broken ones."
 xeno_pic_events.25.c:0 "Preserve the most interesting specimens. The Vault has space."
 xeno_pic_events.26.name:0 "The Raid Returns"
 xeno_pic_events.26.desc:0 "The extraction team has returned with their cargo. The subjects were taken from a civilian zone on the target world — selected for biological compatibility and transported without incident. The target empire has not yet identified the source of the disappearances. By the time they do, the conditioning will be complete. The subjects are already in processing. The Hive notes that this batch is particularly suitable. The Queen has expressed approval."
 xeno_pic_events.26.a:0 "Deliver them to the Breeding Pit."
 xeno_pic_events.26.b:0 "Deliver them to the Specimen Vault."
 xeno_pic_events.27.name:0 "The Swarm Takes the Field"
 xeno_pic_events.27.desc:0 "The ground battle is over. The Xenomorph assault forces have secured the planet's surface with characteristic efficiency — not destroying, but sorting. The dead are being moved to the recycling stations. The living are being assessed. The Hive does not celebrate victory. It processes it. The Queen's signal is already spreading across the planet's surface, reaching into the ruins of the enemy's fortifications, touching the minds of the survivors. Some of them are already calming. The conditioning has begun."
 xeno_pic_events.27.a:0 "Harvest the fallen. The Hive feeds."
 xeno_pic_events.27.b:0 "Capture and process the survivors. The Breeding Pit awaits."
 xeno_pic_events.1.name:0 "Planet Lost to the Swarm"
 xeno_pic_events.1.desc:0 "Our planetary defenses have fallen. The captured drones are now being used as breeding toys by the xenomorphs, subjected to endless humiliation and forced impregnation."
 xeno_pic_events.1.a:0 "A tragic fate."
 xeno_pic_events.2.name:0 "Leader Captured by the Hive"
 xeno_pic_events.2.desc:0 "One of our leaders has been taken by the xenomorph swarm. They face a grim future of forced reproduction and humiliation within the breeding pits."
 xeno_pic_events.2.a:0 "Submit them to the breeding pits."
 xeno_pic_events.2.b:0 "Execute them and spawn a compatible leader pop."
 xeno_pic_events.3.name:0 "Pops Captured"
 xeno_pic_events.3.desc:0 "Several of our citizens have been abducted by the xenomorphs. They will be processed in the Host Processing Bays and used to expand the hive."
 xeno_pic_events.3.a:0 "We must rescue them!"
 xeno_pic_events.4.name:0 "Queen Captured"
 xeno_pic_events.4.desc:0 "A vital Xenomorph leader has been captured by enemy forces. The hive mind reels from this loss, but the swarm will not rest until she is returned or avenged."
 xeno_pic_events.4.a:0 "The swarm will retaliate."
 xeno_pic_events.5.name:0 "Victory for the Swarm"
 xeno_pic_events.5.desc:0 "The planet is ours. The surviving defenders have been rounded up and brought to the Specimen Preservation Vaults for their new purpose."
 xeno_pic_events.5.a:0 "The hive grows stronger."

### Hostline Events ###
 xeno_hostline.100.name:0 "Reptilian Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.100.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred reptilian hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their heat tolerance, predatory posture, and scale-chitin recoil can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Reptilian Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.100.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.100.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.101.name:0 "Reptilian Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.101.desc:0 "A thousand reptilian hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.101.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.101.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.110.name:0 "Reptilian Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.110.desc:0 "The Reptilian Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.110.a:0 "Refine the Reptilian hostline."
 xeno_hostline.110.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.130.name:0 "Reptilian Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.130.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Reptilian Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.131.name:0 "Reptilian Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.131.desc:0 "The Reptilian Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.200.name:0 "Avian Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.200.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred avian hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their lightweight structure, aerial balance, and rapid strike reflexes can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Avian Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.200.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.200.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.201.name:0 "Avian Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.201.desc:0 "A thousand avian hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.201.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.201.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.210.name:0 "Avian Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.210.desc:0 "The Avian Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.210.a:0 "Refine the Avian hostline."
 xeno_hostline.210.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.230.name:0 "Avian Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.230.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Avian Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.231.name:0 "Avian Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.231.desc:0 "The Avian Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.300.name:0 "Mammalian Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.300.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred mammalian hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their endurance, adaptable organs, and pack-hunting aggression can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Mammalian Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.300.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.300.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.301.name:0 "Mammalian Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.301.desc:0 "A thousand mammalian hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.301.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.301.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.310.name:0 "Mammalian Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.310.desc:0 "The Mammalian Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.310.a:0 "Refine the Mammalian hostline."
 xeno_hostline.310.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.330.name:0 "Mammalian Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.330.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Mammalian Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.331.name:0 "Mammalian Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.331.desc:0 "The Mammalian Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.400.name:0 "Arthropoid Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.400.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred arthropoid hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their segmented armor, instinctive swarming, and hardened limb structure can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Arthropoid Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.400.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.400.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.401.name:0 "Arthropoid Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.401.desc:0 "A thousand arthropoid hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.401.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.401.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.410.name:0 "Arthropoid Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.410.desc:0 "The Arthropoid Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.410.a:0 "Refine the Arthropoid hostline."
 xeno_hostline.410.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.430.name:0 "Arthropoid Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.430.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Arthropoid Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.431.name:0 "Arthropoid Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.431.desc:0 "The Arthropoid Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.500.name:0 "Molluscoid Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.500.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred molluscoid hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their neural flexibility, pressure tolerance, and fluid predatory motion can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Molluscoid Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.500.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.500.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.501.name:0 "Molluscoid Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.501.desc:0 "A thousand molluscoid hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.501.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.501.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.510.name:0 "Molluscoid Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.510.desc:0 "The Molluscoid Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.510.a:0 "Refine the Molluscoid hostline."
 xeno_hostline.510.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.530.name:0 "Molluscoid Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.530.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Molluscoid Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.531.name:0 "Molluscoid Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.531.desc:0 "The Molluscoid Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.600.name:0 "Lithoid Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.600.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred lithoid hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their mineralized carapace, crushing density, and geological endurance can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Lithoid Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.600.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.600.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.601.name:0 "Lithoid Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.601.desc:0 "A thousand lithoid hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.601.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.601.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.610.name:0 "Lithoid Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.610.desc:0 "The Lithoid Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.610.a:0 "Refine the Lithoid hostline."
 xeno_hostline.610.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.630.name:0 "Lithoid Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.630.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Lithoid Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.631.name:0 "Lithoid Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.631.desc:0 "The Lithoid Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.700.name:0 "Abyssal Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.700.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred aquatic hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their amphibious pressure adaptation, fluid motion, and abyssal sensory organs can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Abyssal Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.700.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.700.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.701.name:0 "Abyssal Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.701.desc:0 "A thousand aquatic hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.701.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.701.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.710.name:0 "Abyssal Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.710.desc:0 "The Abyssal Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.710.a:0 "Refine the Abyssal hostline."
 xeno_hostline.710.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.730.name:0 "Abyssal Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.730.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Abyssal Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.731.name:0 "Abyssal Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.731.desc:0 "The Abyssal Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.800.name:0 "Cadaverous Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.800.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred necroid hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their death-world resilience, metabolic decay tolerance, and carrion-born persistence can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Cadaverous Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.800.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.800.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.801.name:0 "Cadaverous Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.801.desc:0 "A thousand necroid hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.801.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.801.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.810.name:0 "Cadaverous Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.810.desc:0 "The Cadaverous Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.810.a:0 "Refine the Cadaverous hostline."
 xeno_hostline.810.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.830.name:0 "Cadaverous Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.830.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Cadaverous Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.831.name:0 "Cadaverous Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.831.desc:0 "The Cadaverous Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.900.name:0 "Psionic Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.900.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred psionic hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their latent telepathic stress, instinctive dread projection, and synaptic resonance can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Psionic Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.900.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.900.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.901.name:0 "Psionic Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.901.desc:0 "A thousand psionic hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.901.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.901.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.910.name:0 "Psionic Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.910.desc:0 "The Psionic Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.910.a:0 "Refine the Psionic hostline."
 xeno_hostline.910.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.930.name:0 "Psionic Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.930.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Psionic Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.931.name:0 "Psionic Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.931.desc:0 "The Psionic Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.932.name:0 "Psionic Hostline Research Available"
 xeno_hostline.932.desc:0 "The hive has isolated the Psionic hostline, but this strain is too complex to reproduce immediately. A dedicated research project is now available. Only after that research is completed will the Psionic Xenomorph subspecies be unlocked."
 xeno_hostline.1000.name:0 "Cybernetic Genome Saturation"
 xeno_hostline.1000.desc:0 "After consuming one hundred cybernetic hosts, the hive detects a stable pattern beneath the new chitin. Their machine-contaminated nerves, reinforced implants, and synthetic signal scars can be preserved instead of dissolved into raw biomass. Studying this hostline will slow the feeding cycle and consume additional food, but may birth a true Cybernetic Xenomorph subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.1000.a:0 "Study the emerging hostline."
 xeno_hostline.1000.b:0 "Ignore it. Consume them faster."
 xeno_hostline.1001.name:0 "Cybernetic Genome Saturation Reemerges"
 xeno_hostline.1001.desc:0 "A thousand cybernetic hosts have now passed through the hive. The pattern returns, stronger and harder to ignore. The brood can still preserve this hostline, or continue reducing it into efficient biomass."
 xeno_hostline.1001.a:0 "Preserve the hostline this time."
 xeno_hostline.1001.b:0 "No. Biomass matters more."
 xeno_hostline.1010.name:0 "Cybernetic Hostline Refinement"
 xeno_hostline.1010.desc:0 "The Cybernetic Xenomorph strain has matured through continued consumption. Additional study could refine its caste instincts and preserve more of the hostline without weakening the brood."
 xeno_hostline.1010.a:0 "Refine the Cybernetic hostline."
 xeno_hostline.1010.b:0 "Leave the strain as it is."
 xeno_hostline.1030.name:0 "Cybernetic Hostline Unlocked"
 xeno_hostline.1030.desc:0 "The hive has stabilized the Cybernetic Xenomorph hostline. Its adaptations may now be reproduced, weaponized, and used as the basis for a true subspecies."
 xeno_hostline.1031.name:0 "Cybernetic Hostline Refined"
 xeno_hostline.1031.desc:0 "The Cybernetic Xenomorph strain has been refined into a stronger and more reliable caste-form. Further evolution will require deeper saturation or specialized unity traditions."
 xeno_hostline.1032.name:0 "Cybernetic Hostline Research Available"
 xeno_hostline.1032.desc:0 "The hive has isolated the Cybernetic hostline, but this strain is too complex to reproduce immediately. A dedicated research project is now available. Only after that research is completed will the Cybernetic Xenomorph subspecies be unlocked."

### General Event Popups ###
 xeno_necrophage.2.name:0 "Selective Purge Complete"
 xeno_necrophage.2.desc:0 "The systematic conversion of the population on §Y[Root.GetName]§! has reached its conclusion. The majority of the host species has been successfully integrated into the Hive. The remaining survivors have been processed and reassigned as §YRoyal Broodstock§!, their biological functions now dedicated entirely to the Hive's expansion."
 xeno_necrophage.2.a:0 "Efficient."
 xeno_voidbrood.100.name:0 "Voidbrood Strain Stabilized"
 xeno_voidbrood.100.desc:0 "The hive has learned how to convert captured space fauna into Xenomorph organisms, or harvest them as vast sources of biomass."
 xeno_draconic.100.name:0 "Draconic Genome Decoded"
 xeno_draconic.100.desc:0 "Dragon tissue, instinct, and metabolism have been mapped. The hive can now begin creating draconic Xenomorph horrors from captured or slain leviathans."
 xenogeneral.2.title:0 "The Shattered Cradle"
 xenogeneral.2.desc:0 "Our fleet has entered the system designated Xenomorph Prime. The wreckage of a once-great world hangs in orbit — shattered continents, a fractured moon, and the unmistakable resin-lattice architecture of a dead hive on a scale that defies comprehension. Whatever destroyed this place did so with terrible thoroughness. And yet, something lingers here. The hive signal is faint, but it has not gone entirely silent."
 xenogeneral.2.a:0 "Record everything."
 xenogeneral.3.title:0 "The Queen Mother"
 xenogeneral.3.desc:0 "We have recovered the remains of the Queen Mother in orbit of Xenomorph Prime and have extracted a sample of her DNA for future research."
 xenogeneral.4.title:0 "The Empress Awakens"
 xenogeneral.4.desc:0 "The Empress has taken her throne. The capital world is hers. The Hive signal is strong here — stronger than anywhere else in the empire. The Queens attend her. The Paladins do not leave her side. Nothing will reach her."

# === xeno_narrative_l_english.yml ===
 xeno_queen_mother.201.title:0 "The Queen Mother Falls"
 xeno_queen_mother.201.desc:0 "She who has reigned since the first clutch is dead. For the span of a heartbeat the entire broodmind goes silent — every drone, every warrior, every distant warren feeling the absence at once, like a severed nerve. The hive cannot endure leaderless for long. A new Queen Mother must rise from the royal castes, and the manner of her rising will mark the brood for generations."
 xeno_queen_mother.201.elevate:0 "Force a Paladin to ascend now."
 xeno_queen_mother.201.elevate_tt:0 "Begin the elevation ritual immediately. It will be costly, but the throne will not sit empty."
 xeno_queen_mother.201.wait:0 "Let the brood choose in its own time."
 xeno_queen_mother.201.wait_tt:0 "Endure the leaderless years. A successor will emerge slowly, at less cost but at the price of a long, painful interregnum."
 xeno_queen_mother.202.title:0 "The Elevation Ritual"
 xeno_queen_mother.202.desc:0 "A Paladin is chosen — one of the great warrior-guardians, already half-royal in her blood. To remake her into a Queen Mother, the hive must flood her with royal jelly and rewrite her flesh from the inside out. It is a vast expenditure of biomass and the brood's own genetic labour. Done in full, she will emerge perfected. Done by halves, she will emerge — but flawed."
 xeno_queen_mother.202.pay:0 "Pay the full price."
 xeno_queen_mother.202.pay_tt:0 "Spend 1000 food and 500 society research. The new Queen will ascend whole and strong."
 xeno_queen_mother.202.struggle:0 "We cannot spare so much — do what we can."
 xeno_queen_mother.202.struggle_tt:0 "Spend what little can be spared. The Queen will rise, but the rushed, half-finished elevation will leave her and the brood unstable for a long time."
 xeno_queen_mother.203.title:0 "A New Queen Rises"
 xeno_queen_mother.203.desc:0 "From the royal chamber she emerges, vast and gleaming and new — the Paladin remade, a Queen Mother in full. The broodmind, silent for so long, surges back to life around her presence. Every drone feels the thread reconnect. The hive has a heart again, and it beats stronger than before."
 xeno_queen_mother.203.ok:0 "The brood is whole. Long may she reign."
 xeno_queen_mother.204.desc:0 "She emerges — but the rushed ritual shows. Her carapace is mottled where the royal jelly did not fully take; the broodmind around her flickers, threads reconnecting and dropping and reconnecting again. She is a Queen Mother. She will rule. But the hive will feel the flaw in her for a long time to come."
 xeno_queen_mother.204.ok:0 "It is enough. It must be enough."
 xeno_queen_mother.205.title:0 "The Brood Decides"
 xeno_queen_mother.205.desc:0 "The long interregnum ends not with a ritual but with a slow inevitability. Across the years, one royal-caste daughter has drawn more and more of the broodmind to herself, until at last there is no question left to answer. She is already Queen Mother in all but name; the hive simply, finally, acknowledges it. The cost was not biomass but time — painful, leaderless years — yet the succession is clean."
 xeno_queen_mother.205.ok:0 "The wound closes. The hive endures."
 xeno_meet.1.title:0 "New Flesh in the Dark"
 xeno_meet.1.desc:0 "Contact. Another people moves among the stars — ships, signals, the chatter of minds that think themselves alone. The broodmind regards them with the same cold attention it gives every living thing: not as equals, not as enemies yet, but as material. Every species the hive has ever met has, in the end, become host-stock, labour, or biomass. These newcomers will be no different. The only question is when."
 xeno_meet.1.ok:0 "Catalogue them. The brood is patient."
 xeno_hybrid.1.title:0 "A New Strain Quickens"
 xeno_hybrid.1.desc:0 "In the breeding warrens, something unprecedented draws its first breath. The hive's long genetic project — the patient folding of stolen host-traits into Xenomorph flesh — has produced a true hybrid: a brood-form that is neither the host it came from nor the pure strain that seeded it, but a third thing, stronger than both. The broodmind tastes the new genome and finds it good. This is how the hive evolves: not by accident, but by harvest."
 xeno_hybrid.1.embrace:0 "Let the strain spread through the brood."
 xeno_hybrid.1.study:0 "Study it first — understand what we have made."
 xeno_draconic.500.title:0 "The Xenodragon Wakes"
 xeno_draconic.500.desc:0 "Deep in the hive's greatest warren, the thing the brood has been growing for a generation finally stirs. It is enormous — a draconic brood-form bred from the genome of a slain void-leviathan and the hive's own royal line, scaled and acid-blooded and old in instinct though newly woken. When it opens its eyes the entire broodmind flinches at the weight of the mind behind them. The hive has made itself a apex predator to set against the galaxy. Now it must decide how to wield it."
 xeno_draconic.500.unleash:0 "Let it hunt. The galaxy will learn to fear the brood."
 xeno_draconic.500.unleash_tt:0 "The Xenodragon strengthens the hive's armies and fleets while it lives."

# === xeno_picture_events_l_english.yml ===
 # =================================================================
 # Xenomorph Picture / Raid Event Localisation
 # Generic narrative text for the 29 picture events in
 # events/xenomorph_picture_events.txt.
 # =================================================================

 # --- Battle Lost (1, 2) — shown to a non-Xeno empire that lost a ground battle to Xenomorphs ---
 xeno_pic_events.1.desc_v2:0 "Our defenders fell. The Hive did not kill them — that would have been a mercy. Survivors are being marched into the catacombs of the Xenomorphs, where their fate will be far worse than death."

 xeno_pic_events.2.desc_v2:0 "The Xenomorph swarm overwhelmed our line. Our captured forces are now in the hands of the Hive. Their bodies will fuel the swarm's growth in ways we dare not imagine."

 # --- Captured Leader (3, 4, 5) — Xenomorph empire captures an enemy leader ---
 xeno_pic_events.3.desc_v2:0 "Our raiders have brought back an enemy leader, bound and ready for the Hive. Her body is intact; her will is broken. The drones await our orders on how to use her."

 xeno_pic_events.4.desc_v2:0 "Another captured leader has been brought before the Queens. Her noble bearing will not protect her — the Hive treats all flesh the same."

 xeno_pic_events.5.desc_v2:0 "Yet another captive of rank kneels before the Hive. The drones grow eager."

 # --- Captured Pop (6) — generic pop capture ---
 xeno_pic_events.6.name:0 "Captives Delivered"
 xeno_pic_events.6.desc:0 "A consignment of captured non-Xenomorph organics has arrived for processing. Where do we send them?"
 xeno_pic_events.6.a:0 "Host Processing Bay."
 xeno_pic_events.6.b:0 "Milk Extraction Station."
 xeno_pic_events.6.c:0 "Specimen Vault."

 # --- Captured Queen (7, 8, 9) — high-rank leader capture ---
 xeno_pic_events.7.desc_v2:0 "We have captured a queen of the enemy — a true matriarch of their kind. The drones surge with excitement. Her bloodline is rich; her flesh will serve us well."

 xeno_pic_events.8.desc_v2:0 "Another foreign matriarch joins our collection. The Queens take a personal interest in her."

 xeno_pic_events.9.desc_v2:0 "A sovereign of the enemy now serves us. Her former subjects will never see her again — she belongs to the Hive now."

 # --- Female Pleasure / Victory variants (10-15) ---
 xeno_pic_events.10.desc_v2:0 "The drones celebrate. The pleasures of victory are shared throughout the Hive — bonded flesh, shared pheromones, communal triumph."

 xeno_pic_events.11.desc_v2:0 "The matriarchs share themselves with their finest warriors. The bond is renewed."

 xeno_pic_events.12.desc_v2:0 "The Hive's matriarchs receive their tribute. The young Queens grow strong on the spoils of victory."

 xeno_pic_events.13.desc_v2:0 "Victory's pleasures flow through the Hive. New broods are conceived in the afterglow."

 xeno_pic_events.14.desc_v2:0 "Our matriarch stands triumphant over the battlefield. The enemy lies broken; her drones cluster in adoration."

 xeno_pic_events.15.desc_v2:0 "She has conquered. Our matriarch returns with the heads of her enemies and the seed of new broods."

 # --- Male Pleasure / Victory variants (16-18) ---
 xeno_pic_events.16.desc_v2:0 "The patriarchs celebrate their victory. Their drones bring them tribute — captured pleasures from the conquered."

 xeno_pic_events.17.desc_v2:0 "The patriarchs assert their dominance over the defeated. The Hive's strength flows through them."

 xeno_pic_events.18.desc_v2:0 "Our patriarch claims his prize. The enemy's matriarchs kneel before him."

 # --- Male Breeding (19) ---
 xeno_pic_events.19.desc_v2:0 "The patriarchs spread their seed throughout the Breeding Pit. New broods will hatch within months."

 # --- Tentacle Capture (20-22) — espionage / raid pop captures ---
 xeno_pic_events.20.desc_v2:0 "Our infiltration drones have seized prey from the shadows of an enemy world. The captives are bound, broken, and en route to the Hive."

 xeno_pic_events.21.desc_v2:0 "The Hive's tentacular drones strike again. A consignment of fresh organics has arrived."

 xeno_pic_events.22.desc_v2:0 "No corner of the galaxy is beyond the reach of our tentacles. More captives delivered."

 # --- Swarm Hold Established (23) — branch office ---
 xeno_pic_events.23.desc_v2:0 "A Hive enclave has taken root on a foreign world. Our drones operate from within; the locals do not yet know what has invaded them."

 # --- Wild Xenomorph Hunters (24) — feral xenomorph deposit ---
 xeno_pic_events.24.desc_v2:0 "Feral Xenomorphs have been spotted in the wilderness — survivors of an older outbreak, perhaps, or escapees from a long-forgotten experiment. They are not part of our Hive, but they could be."

 # --- Post-Conquest (25) — planet transferred to Xeno empire ---
 xeno_pic_events.25.desc_v2:0 "A new world has fallen to the Hive. Its native population trembles before us. Their fate is ours to decide."

 # --- Raid Operation Success (26) — espionage raid ---
 xeno_pic_events.26.desc_v2:0 "Our infiltration team has returned with a haul of captives from a covert raid. Where do we direct them?"

 # --- Ground Battle Won (27) — attacker victory ---
 xeno_pic_events.27.desc_v2:0 "Our ground forces have crushed the defenders. The battlefield is ours, and so are the survivors. The Hive will decide their fate."
 xeno_pic_events.27.c:0 "Drag their leader into custody."

 # --- Hidden Gates (28, 29) — never seen by player ---
 xeno_pic_events.28.name:0 "Attacker Victory Dispatcher"
 xeno_pic_events.28.desc:0 "(hidden)"
 xeno_pic_events.28.a:0 "OK"
 xeno_pic_events.29.name:0 "Defender Victory Dispatcher"
 xeno_pic_events.29.desc:0 "(hidden)"
 xeno_pic_events.29.a:0 "OK"

# === xeno_provoke_l_english.yml ===
 action_xenomorph_parade_captive:0 "Parade Captured Leader"
 requires_held_captive_from_target:0 "§RYou must hold a captured leader taken from this empire§!"
 not_on_cooldown_parade_captive:0 "§RThe brood has paraded a captive too recently§!"
 requires_not_at_war_with_target:0 "§RYou cannot parade a captive while at war with this empire§!"
 opinion_xenomorph_paraded_captive:0 "Paraded our captured leader"
 xeno_paraded_captive_recently:0 "Reveled in a Paraded Captive"
 xeno_paraded_humiliation:0 "Humiliation: Leader Paraded"
 xeno_provoke.1.title:0 "A Leader Paraded"
 xeno_provoke.1.desc:0 "Word reaches us of a vile spectacle. The Xenomorph hive of [From.GetName] has paraded one of our own — [From.GetName] displays a leader taken from us, broken and remade, flaunting their dominion over flesh that was once ours.\n\nThe images spread through our worlds. Our people are shaken; our pride is wounded. The hive wants us to see what becomes of those it takes."
 xeno_provoke.1.swallow:0 "We will not forget this."

# === Pass 24: Xenomorph espionage operations (operation names, descriptions, and stage events) ===
 operation_xenomorph_biological_survey:0 "Biological Survey"
 operation_xenomorph_biological_survey_desc:0 "Slip dormant sampling organisms into a rival's population. Every cell they carry home teaches the brood how this species will break, bleed, and serve. A quiet, patient theft of the body itself."
 operation_xenomorph_seed_infestation:0 "Seed Infestation"
 operation_xenomorph_seed_infestation_desc:0 "Smuggle a clutch of eggs past every border check and let them take root in the dark places of a rival's world. What grows there will answer only to the hive."
 operation_xenomorph_brood_swap:0 "Brood Swap"
 operation_xenomorph_brood_swap_desc:0 "One by one, replace a rival's people with brood that wear their faces and answer to their names. The empire does not fall. It is simply, quietly, no longer theirs."
 operation_xenomorph_implantation_program:0 "Implantation Program"
 operation_xenomorph_implantation_program_desc:0 "Turn a rival's own population into unwilling hosts for the next generation of the brood. Their bodies become the cradle; their ignorance, the lock on the door."
 operation_xenomorph_brood_uprising:0 "Brood Uprising"
 operation_xenomorph_brood_uprising_desc:0 "Somewhere in a rival's domain, caged kin are kept as trophies, weapons, or curiosities. Reach them, and turn their cages into a killing floor."
 operation_xenomorph_planetary_consumption:0 "Planetary Consumption"
 operation_xenomorph_planetary_consumption_desc:0 "The most patient operation of all. Seed a single hidden nest upon a living world, and do not stop feeding it until nothing remains but resin, silence, and the hive."

 xenomorph_op.1.name:0 "Sampling the Stock"
 xenomorph_op.1.desc:0 "Our agents move unseen through [From.GetName], harvesting tissue, fluid, and living cells from a population that does not yet know it is being read. Each sample is carried back into the dark and remembered."
 xenomorph_op.1.a:0 "Let them work."
 xenomorph_op.2.name:0 "The Catalogue Grows"
 xenomorph_op.2.desc:0 "The survey is complete. Every weakness, every vulnerability, every soft and screaming place in this species is now written into the hive's genetic memory. When the time comes to take them as hosts, the brood will already know the way in."
 xenomorph_op.2.a:0 "Another species understood."
 xenomorph_op.10.name:0 "Spores in the Dark"
 xenomorph_op.10.desc:0 "The clutch is carried past their watchposts in sealed bio-pods and buried where no census will ever look — beneath cities, inside cargo, in the rotting margins of their worlds."
 xenomorph_op.10.a:0 "Bury them deep."
 xenomorph_op.11.name:0 "Quiet Germination"
 xenomorph_op.11.desc:0 "The eggs mature in silence, drawing on the warmth and waste of a population that suspects nothing. The infestation has not yet woken. It is only waiting."
 xenomorph_op.11.a:0 "Patience."
 xenomorph_op.12.name:0 "The Nest Wakes"
 xenomorph_op.12.desc:0 "The seeded brood reaches its first molt and stirs to purpose. A hidden hive now lives within the rival's own borders — watching, breeding, and ready to answer when the broodmind calls."
 xenomorph_op.12.a:0 "It is theirs no longer."
 xenomorph_op.20.name:0 "Marked for Replacement"
 xenomorph_op.20.desc:0 "The brood selects its targets carefully: minor functionaries, overlooked workers, faces no one will examine too closely. The work of unmaking them begins."
 xenomorph_op.20.a:0 "Choose well."
 xenomorph_op.21.name:0 "Hollowed from Within"
 xenomorph_op.21.desc:0 "One by one the chosen are taken in the night and replaced. The substitution is seamless. Their colleagues notice nothing but a faint, unplaceable wrongness."
 xenomorph_op.21.a:0 "Quietly."
 xenomorph_op.22.name:0 "Wearing Their Faces"
 xenomorph_op.22.desc:0 "Brood now walk freely among the rival's people, indistinguishable from those they replaced. They speak the right words, keep the right schedules, and report everything to the hive."
 xenomorph_op.22.a:0 "Indistinguishable."
 xenomorph_op.23.name:0 "The Swap is Complete"
 xenomorph_op.23.desc:0 "Enough of the rival's people are now brood that their institutions answer, in part, to the broodmind. Decisions bend. Secrets flow. The empire serves the hive and does not know it."
 xenomorph_op.23.a:0 "They never noticed."
 xenomorph_op.30.name:0 "Selecting the Vessels"
 xenomorph_op.30.desc:0 "The hive surveys the rival's population and marks those whose bodies will best carry the brood's young. They go about their lives, unaware they have already been chosen as cradles."
 xenomorph_op.30.a:0 "They will do."
 xenomorph_op.31.name:0 "The Embrace"
 xenomorph_op.31.desc:0 "Under cover of night, the facehuggers find their hosts. The implantation is swift, intimate, and irreversible. By morning the vessels remember nothing but a strange, fading dream."
 xenomorph_op.31.a:0 "Hold them still."
 xenomorph_op.32.name:0 "Gestation"
 xenomorph_op.32.desc:0 "Within the living hosts, the embryos grow — feeding, shaping, waiting. The vessels feel only a creeping fatigue they cannot explain, and the hive feels its brood quicken."
 xenomorph_op.32.a:0 "Growing."
 xenomorph_op.33.name:0 "Quickening"
 xenomorph_op.33.desc:0 "The hosts sicken now, pale and hollow-eyed, drawn relentlessly toward the moment of birth. They seek out their physicians, who find nothing. There is nothing to be found in time."
 xenomorph_op.33.a:0 "Soon."
 xenomorph_op.34.name:0 "The Chestburst Harvest"
 xenomorph_op.34.desc:0 "The brood tears free. In a single dreadful hour the rival loses a swathe of its people and the hive gains a fresh generation, born screaming from stolen flesh."
 xenomorph_op.34.a:0 "Born in their flesh."
 xenomorph_op.40.name:0 "Whispers to the Caged"
 xenomorph_op.40.desc:0 "Deep in the rival's domain, captive kin are kept behind glass and chain. The broodmind reaches across the dark and touches them, and for the first time in their captivity, they are not alone."
 xenomorph_op.40.a:0 "They hear us."
 xenomorph_op.41.name:0 "The Brood Stirs"
 xenomorph_op.41.desc:0 "Unrest spreads through the cages. The captives grow restless, coordinated, patient in a way their keepers have never seen. Something is moving behind their eyes."
 xenomorph_op.41.a:0 "Restless now."
 xenomorph_op.42.name:0 "Breaking the Locks"
 xenomorph_op.42.desc:0 "The caged brood begins to test its bonds — probing schedules, weaknesses, the soft places in their confinement. Their keepers tell themselves the alarms are malfunctions."
 xenomorph_op.42.a:0 "Almost free."
 xenomorph_op.43.name:0 "Open Revolt"
 xenomorph_op.43.desc:0 "Containment fails. The captive kin break loose in a single coordinated surge, and the rival's facilities become abattoirs. The monsters they thought they owned are loose among them."
 xenomorph_op.43.a:0 "Let them feed."
 xenomorph_op.44.name:0 "The Hive Within Rises"
 xenomorph_op.44.desc:0 "The uprising spreads beyond its cages, bleeding the rival from the inside. Every brood they ever caged was a knife held to their own throat — and the hive has finally closed the hand."
 xenomorph_op.44.a:0 "Their cages were a mistake."
 xenomorph_op.50.name:0 "First Bloom"
 xenomorph_op.50.desc:0 "From a single hidden nest, resin begins to spread across the target world — first through its wild places, then its forgotten corners, slow and inexorable as rot."
 xenomorph_op.50.a:0 "It begins."
 xenomorph_op.51.name:0 "The Spread"
 xenomorph_op.51.desc:0 "The infestation devours districts and wilderness alike, swallowing roads, fields, and outlying settlements beneath a growing skin of living resin. The rival sends crews to burn it back. They do not return."
 xenomorph_op.51.a:0 "Faster now."
 xenomorph_op.52.name:0 "Choking the Cities"
 xenomorph_op.52.desc:0 "The hive reaches the population centers. One by one the rival's cities fall silent as their streets fill with brood and their skies darken with spores. There is no front line. There is only the spread."
 xenomorph_op.52.a:0 "Quiet."
 xenomorph_op.53.name:0 "The Green Tide"
 xenomorph_op.53.desc:0 "The biosphere itself is being rewritten. Native life is consumed and replaced; the very air thickens with the hive's biology. Whatever this world once was, it is becoming something else entirely."
 xenomorph_op.53.a:0 "Unstoppable."
 xenomorph_op.54.name:0 "Nothing Left Standing"
 xenomorph_op.54.desc:0 "The last redoubts of the rival's defenders are overrun. Their final transmissions are screams and static. The world belongs to the brood now in all but the last, stubborn pockets."
 xenomorph_op.54.a:0 "Almost."
 xenomorph_op.55.name:0 "The Final Molt"
 xenomorph_op.55.desc:0 "The hive completes its conquest of the world's old life. What remains is no longer a planet of the rival's making but a single vast organism, breathing in resin and silence."
 xenomorph_op.55.a:0 "Cleansed."
 xenomorph_op.56.name:0 "A World Devoured"
 xenomorph_op.56.desc:0 "Where a rival's world once turned in the dark, there is now only hive — every city, every sea, every living thing rendered down into brood and biomass. The operation is complete. The world is ours, entirely."
 xenomorph_op.56.a:0 "Ours. Entirely."

 # === 3.59 audit-fix additions: event options + conscript armies ===
 xeno_voidbrood.100.a:0 "The void yields its beasts."
 xeno_draconic.100.a:0 "The dragons will serve the brood."
 xeno_conscript_drone_army:0 "Conscripted Drones"
 xeno_conscript_drone_army_plural:0 "Conscripted Drones"
 xeno_conscript_drone_army_desc:0 "Worker drones pressed into combat service. Expendable biomass with minimal combat conditioning."
 xeno_conscript_warrior_army:0 "Conscripted Warriors"
 xeno_conscript_warrior_army_plural:0 "Conscripted Warriors"
 xeno_conscript_warrior_army_desc:0 "Warrior-caste stock mobilized ahead of full maturation. Reduced carapace density and incomplete pheromone conditioning relative to a mature warrior brood."
