Well, you always have me up for story discussions, as that is my main interest in games while viewing the MP as extras. I’m no Stoic Slab or Parasidian though…
It can still prove lethal to humans when exposed long enough, but I get the impression the Swarm for one reason or another are extremely vulnerable to acidic substances and also the New Hope toxin/toxic gas(they refer to it as a toxin, which isn’t a term I’d heard used before then), albeit the latter mostly seemed to work on “lesser” Swarm while the likes of Snatchers and Wardens really couldn’t care much about it.
But the one thing we have not actually seen in a story environment is how Scions and more specifically Wardens are effected by the Wakaatu acid. Carriers… well, there was a partially melted Carrier with a large chunk of flesh missing also revealing part of its spine at the back , so it’s safe to assume that the Swarm grown creatures are not safe to it as well. Makes you wonder. Maybe they just forgot to show such or it is on purpose.
That wasn’t my line of thought. If the venom bomb was planted at the center of a hive and (new) Delta participated in one of those missions - assuming the best of the best of the COG were accepting to participate in them -, but Kait ended up captured or killed by the Swarm in the hive, we clearly have seen they aren’t strangers of subverting biological forms to their own cause with Reyna’s body, so they could almost certainly either repair the brain damage to reconnect Kait to the hivemind and give Myrrah another body to use, or otherwise alter it to make it useable for her mind, either as a backup for if Reyna’s was destroyed or Myrrah wanted a younger body that didn’t have to be corrupted with Swarm biomatter and Locust crystals which may have reduced its functional uses and possibly the remaining lifespan of the body as well.
I do was saying if there was any way the new COG could get around the issues with its construction and the placement basically underneath a volcano. But it would probably be simpler to build another bunker in a different location if even any are safe from the Swarm. COG could at least have attempted to salvage some of the resources spent into the project which is on a massive scale, before turning it into a burial site. But I personally suspect they(Swarm) don’t just use these lava tubes to travel around or they would still be isolated from the entirety of the rest of them on Pahanu and Weilehi(if that’s the name of the other island). Not to mention if a flood of lava or another hazard(without going into my volcanic eruption knowledge because they were a childhood fascination) came from the volcano if it erupted, the tube(s) would either become sealed up or temporarily unusable.
To your bricks I raise you even more text.
