The Book of Dragons: " We Endure", the alien dragons live in an eusocial caste system consisting of a Queen, who is the only member to reproduce Gatherers, who forage for food and raw resources to bring back to the hive Warriors, who defend the hive from intrusions and attack rival hives Nest Tenders, who care for eggs and larvae and Cleaners, who maintain hygiene in the hive itself and dispose of the bodies of dead dragons.Alien in a Small Town: The Jan have male Workers, the majority of their population sterile Warriors, with six clawed arms and giant fanged jaws and breeding Matriarchs, who essentially mature into sessile living mountains and serve as the leaders of Jannite society.Often leads to Crippling Overspecialization for individuals, or is a way to avoid it for the race as a whole. When aliens have a caste system, but the various castes are not physically very different, that's not this trope, that's Fantastic Caste System. Can overlap with Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism if the castes are based on biological sex. Since the Ants and Bees that inspired this trope have all-female worker castes, this often leads to a sort of One-Gender Race. And then, sometimes Drones, who pretty much exist to mate with the queen and not much else.And, of course, there's usually the Insect Queen, who lays eggs and is probably bigger and badder than the other castes.Some may be psychic or just superintelligent Brain Bugs who tell everyone else what to do.Some may burrow into the brains and/or spines of their enemies and take them over as puppets.Some will have specialized weaponry as part of their body, spraying acid, flame, or darts.Some will be oversized versions of the warrior - tougher to kill and big enough to bite through tanks.Some will be Warriors, who either fight with weapons or just charge forward and try to bite and claw their enemies to death.Some will be Workers, who build weapons or just dig tunnels for their Elaborate Underground Base.This system is actually inspired by certain Real Life ants, bees and termites, who indeed come in several of the varieties seen below.
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Oftentimes, when Bee People show up to fight a Bug War against humanity, while the humans use the full panoply of technology, including spaceships, tanks, Powered Armor, and military aircraft, the Bugs are likely to use specialized castes of their own race instead, with a large level of polymorphism between different castes of the same species to adapt them to specialized roles.
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