>Nothing as bad as it sounds. In original canon, even all the way back
>to MOSPEADA, the Invid are basically these slug-things, individually
>subsapient but linked by a hive mind. The original 'Queen Invid', the
>Regis, was concerned with 'evolving' them into a better format (via
>psychic woo-woo), and eventually settled on imitation humans, complete
>with sapience.

Aaaaah, I begin to understand. I know very little about the Invid (basically what's in the old Palladium book on them, which ain't much, and even that was years ago) but between the hivemind and the naturally biologically morphable nature of their race, I begin to understand.

>
>A passing reference in UF whose address I can't currently recall
>indicates that Ariel has replaced the Regis, so Kana-chan's dad was
>presumably speaking specifically about humanoid, sapient Invid and the
>upgrade process that creates them from subsapient types like gurab
>(which are, BTW, one of the lower Invid castes, for those that had
>that reference slip by).

The quote I put in my last post may be the one to which you were referring. Kaname herself specifically refers to 'uplifting' in that scene and I have a feeling she's talking about Ariel taking earlier stage 1-4 Invid and 'uplifting' them to stage 5 and sentience. Basically I think she was saying it makes sense she's not as in tune with the hivemind because full Invid are comfortable with it before they are even sentient, let alone adult.

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this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

--mu