Greatest Threat To The Universe - Starfinder Lore

The Swarm are a massive threat that has attacked directly The Pact Worlds and The Veskarium. The Swarm are always involving themselves from the planets and cultures they consume. The Shirren are related to The Swarm and are an anomaly free from the hive mind, but now addicted to individualism.
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:48 Who Are The Swarm
2:28 The Programmers
3:23 Emotions Are For The Weak
3:57 Swarm Communication
5:13 Where Did The Swam Come From
5:56 Kucharns and Hylax
6:42 Near Space and The Vast Explained
7:25 Rise Of The Swarm
9:00 The Shirren
10:34 Pact Worlds and The Veskarium
11:05 Revenge Of The Swarm
References
Ilemchuuva
Relics of Chuuva. Huskworld, p. 40.
The Shirren Exodus. The Last Refuge, p. 41.
Huskworld. Huskworld, p. 3.
Swarm
Starfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p. 50-51, p. 428, p. 486, p. 497
Alien Archive, p. 110-111
A Plague of Locusts. Fate of the Fifth, p. 5, p. 47-51
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[@TheMapleTable]

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[@sethseth9059]

Technically inflation is the greatest threat to the cosmos; then the Swarm.

[@jadedoptimistt]

Not with the drift it isn't.

[@TheMapleTable]

If it makes you feel better, I would also accept this as an answer lol

[@CopperCreekCuts]

0:00 I'm glad I'm not the only one. I watched a video where Starfinder was explaining them and I was like "Cool, Swarm = Zerg + Tyranid"

[@TheMapleTable]

Basically :p

[@HuxtableK]

It is a really cool sci-fi concept: biological organisms that can use greater, more advanced bio-organisms to traverse the expanse of space from world to world, fighting and consuming the life it finds to advance itself. It's why I love the Zerg, love the Tyranids, and in Starfinder, I love the Swarm. Because even at the core rulebook level, there's elements of the Swarm that broke off to be PC races.

[@bigmunch6992]

Fun fact: Early in the development of StarCraft, it was supposed to be an a Warhammer 40K RTS game. Before it was rebranded into it’s own IP by blizzard.

[@treyokelly3520]

As someone who’s completely addicted to Pathfinder/Starfinder lore I just want to thank you for these videos. What a joy! Almost no one is doing Path/Starfinder lore. Especially Starfinder.

[@jamesdudeck231]

The flood is a vast ... What?!

[@TheMapleTable]

Now im sad I didn't say this

[@inspired8598]

Love how he just used tyranid images for the swarm

[@TheMapleTable]

The only art of them that was readily available lol

[@inspired8598]

@@TheMapleTable makes sense

[@MrChupacabra555]

Rewatching, and just for that opening gag alone 😂

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for the support! I am not always funny but when I am...

[@antcow1239]

Whats funny is i thought of the zerg and the tyranids in the same order you mentioned them prior to clicking on this vid

[@TheMapleTable]

great minds think alike.

[@P4rz1va1]

The Flood is a vast... Swarm

[@TheMapleTable]

Lol

[@HuxtableK]

I found your stuff like six hours ago, and I've been watching the videos I've seen for Starfinder so far. Been enjoying what I'm finding! You're getting me super excited to try a Starfinder campaign.

[@TheMapleTable]

Glad to hear that! That was my goal for the channel. Welcome to the table!

[@antwan1357]

I totally waited for the Shirren , it paid off.

[@TheMapleTable]

I should do a video on them specifically

[@HalNinethousand]

I was expecting Gears of War's Locust to be stated on the third time.

[@TheMapleTable]

Ill be honest, that thought escaped me at the time

[@HalNinethousand]

@@TheMapleTable I would have also accepted The Flood.

[@jrock-hk7rm]

Thanks to the swarm we don't need to fight off the Veskarium! Are you planning on selling any SF-based merch?

[@TheMapleTable]

I would like to, i have to be careful how I do it

[@Bake-kurijra]

So basically . If the tyranid Zerg or any other hyper evolving swarm race fans sees this , there going to call ripoff or Bootlage

[@TheMapleTable]

Its possible

[@ereviscale3966]

Your forehead is a perfect rectangle. Thanks for the video! It's hard to find Starfinder info on KZbin.

[@TheMapleTable]

Im glad my symmetry is pleasing to you lol

[@thevoid2117]

A realization that the Swarm and Gnolls from 5e are kind of similar with the all encompassing hunger, the latter being the affect of Yeenoghu on the Gnolls. Another group I'd love to see tackled, as they're spread through the Alien Archives but unlike the Swarm don't have an AP dedicated to them yet, is The Dominion of the Black

[@TheMapleTable]

I didn't know that about the gnolls but im intrigued

[@thevoid2117]

@@TheMapleTable In 5e D&D they switched their lore, well this was in Volo's guide, so a few years back now, they had made the Gnolls essentially all part of the hunger of Yeenoghu. I don't recall if they've changed it with the more recent updates as they did with Orcs in 5e, since the release of Tasha's cauldron of everything, but if you have access to Volo's guide to monsters, that's where they go into the details and background of the Gnolls. Current incarnation if changed probably on the D&D wiki

[@TheMapleTable]

@@thevoid2117 I have volos guide in physical copy but I left it in Canada while I am living abroad

[@lorenzovaletti4951]

Very well explained! Love your videos

[@TheMapleTable]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Fsudryden]

I am about to start my first game I Starfinder. Only 2 players and we are playing the Aeon Throne story so I am confident but nervous at the same time.

[@TheMapleTable]

Good luck runnin your game and remember, having fun is the main goal

[@archmageeldran2567]

I have gmed it and it is a fun ap. Have fun and remember that sometimes violence is not the only answer.

[@TheMapleTable]

@@archmageeldran2567 they will leaen of our peaceful ways... BY FORCE!

[@jrock-hk7rm]

Only 2!? Ah-oh. Good luck to the duo.

[@sethseth9059]

Have them play two characters each.

[@dane3038]

Good stuff, Bro.

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks

[@jarlupathingy7260]

This year is worst than the last but these vids give me a good distraction. Keep on the good work.

[@TheMapleTable]

Glad I can help

[@GarredHATES]

I can use my Tyranid minis woo

[@matthewhinga]

The cybugs are a vast....what?

[@TheMapleTable]

Many games have their own version I just wanted to have some fun with it :p

[@wolftooth6678]

Shirren are one of my favorite races from the core rule book. I do like the Swarms backstory and lore and their biotechnology but at the same time feel like their used as "the main bad guys" far too often and sometimes it feels a bit cliche but thats just my opinion.

[@TheMapleTable]

I dont think I have covered much of the original races for starfinder lol i should probably do that.

[@justinjohnston4129]

We Are The Swarm.

[@TheMapleTable]

Resistance is futile

[@Fstwist3393]

Man i love the Tyranids... What?

[@TheMapleTable]

I didn't expect this to be the memed part of the video lol

[@kyubii972]

Creeps towards spoilers for the swarm module. So players be warned. Some of this could be stuff your DM wants to be explored through the adventure path. Still a good video not shit talking.

[@biowepcosmic]

Only good bug is a dead bug.

[@TheMapleTable]

Im doing my part.

[@Bake-kurijra]

Who would win the swarm vs the Zerg vs they tyranids ?

[@TheMapleTable]

Hard to say, since in my mind they are all the same thing

[@BigBossTussBall]

Doesn't matter. Either way, you end up with something worse.

[@jusquanorthwind1016]

@@BigBossTussBall the Flood, the Zerg, the Tyranids, the Swarm… there’s so many takes on this exact alien trope that whenever someone tries putting them against each other the answer always boils down to what you said here…

[@atlascove1810]

We'd all lose since they'd become one.

[@MasterJediDude]

Gee, thanks Triune. 🤣

[@TheMapleTable]

You were supposed to bring balance to the universe :p

[@MasterJediDude]

@@TheMapleTable Triune gave the Swarm the high ground. 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheMapleTable]

@@MasterJediDude LOL

[@kevinkrueger7479]

The SOURCE, WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FROM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jadedoptimistt]

How was that Shirren planet's name spelled?

[@TheMapleTable]

Ilemchuva

[@blackfistxu7953]

👍🏾👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@rosvall216]

Tyranids -> Zerg -> Swarm, amarite?

[@TheMapleTable]

these are all the same thing lol

[@chrystals.4376]

At least some of the ideas and concepts for that was influenced by Lexx, right?

[@TheLumpyShield]

It might be a bit of a Spoiler, but what about the God Host?

[@Bronk0Nagurski]

I hate the swarm with all my heart. In the game, that is. lol. As a race / conflict tool / antogonist, they are fantastic.

[@SliderVP2]

Ripers? Kek