I would assume this isn't the case as that would be broken but, Since the hive mind we are getting is a centralised organism and all the pop's are just extensions of it's self, does that mean that if the hivemind homeworld is captured the entire species would die out as currently hivemind pops die in non hive mind governement and non hivemind pops are killed in hiveminds.
This would mean that technically when the hiveminds homeworld is captured and the hivemind core is destroyed that all the drones would die as the entity that was sustaining the hivemind would be dead?
By this logic hivemind planet's cannot be liberated. Also hivemind presumably cannot invade primitive worlds unless they also move pops there.
There is no "core" on thier Homeworld. The Hivemind is just the sum of all pops. Loosing thier Homewolrd would be a serious blow to population and thus borders and production, same as every other empire. But it would not defeat the hivemind.
Hiveminds indeed can neither liberate nor be liberated.
They are still able to become and aquire any kind of vassals, however.
And with T2 Biological Ascension, the Hivemind trait can be added or removed from the populations.
And pops of other hiveminds are automatically integrated.
Something that just ocurred to me was the current description of the Hive Mind AI Personality:
"
Hive Minds concern themselves with the propagation of their species above all else. So long as they have room to expand, there is little to fear from them, but if boxed in they will think nothing of seizing worlds and slaughtering their native population."
In a way Hivemind will "slaughter" the native population of all planets they conquer. Via the "can not coexist" rules for pops.
