Nunny

Nunny was an extremely primitive Proto Hivemind, being the first of her kind. She was created directly by Genesis Labs, who also named her. While her actual body and self is deceased, her feelings and ideology have been passed down to all subsequent hivemind beings (including Reconstructed Minds, Proto Hiveminds, Hivetumors, Outpost Watchers, and the Matriarch).

While Nunny does have she/her pronouns attributed to her, those pronouns were just given to her by the scientists of Genesis Labs (similarly to the Matriarch). Nunny doesn't have a sex, nor does she use pronouns for herself; she has no reason to.

Appearance

Nunny was described to appear similar to the Nunny Proto Hivemind skin (which is also the original model of the Proto Hivemind). Though, the extremely general design scheme is where the similarities end. Nunny's true appearance is unknown at this time.

Personality

Little is known about Nunny's personality. Its likely she was similar to Hivetumors, in which she could feel basic emotions like fear and anger. Aside from that, its likely she wasn't advanced enough for more complex thought; that would come later with further hivemind iterations (which are rooted in Nunny's original experiences and feelings).

History

In Project Regenesis, there were multiple attempts to create hivemind-like beings. Nunny was the first successful one by Genesis Labs. Though, she was extremely basic compared to the Proto Hiveminds in-game, as she wasn't nearly intelligent, nor did she have the same biological capabilities; namely, a way to cool her brains off to prevent them from overheating.

During Nunny's existence with Genesis Labs, she was the primary test subject for the study of the natural evolution aspect of Project Regenesis. Due to her being the company's first successful hivemind, she was treated with bias and fondness, enabling her to outlast her predecessors. Furthermore, to keep her from dying, she and her fore-sisters were basically nurtured to not fail and perish even in monitored, controlled environments.

Nunny existed for around 2 years. She was the source of the first Organoids and even basic Calamities. As a result of continuous and unrelenting testing (as well as the fact that Nunny was poorly designed), she almost literally fell apart, making her unable to handle the workload anymore. She was terminated by Genesis Labs for this reason, and they would continue to experiment with creating new and better hiveminds. Nunny allowed them to further refine the process of creating hiveminds.

Despite her technical death, Nunny's legacy continued on. In the time she had existed, she managed to mentally link numerous human patients and experiments infected with Spore to herself, allowing her feelings, intelligence, and memories to be stored dormently within their brains. This allowed what is essentially a copy of Nunny's collective minds to be passed on to future hivemind experiments, allowing them to learn faster, get stronger, and gain a feeling of hatred for the Genesis Labs scientists and eventually humanity as a whole. All future hiveminds continued to share and grow her ideology.

Nunny quite literally invented Evolution, Organoids, and Calamities, and most dauntingly: refining her own design to better create more stable, defendable, and efficient hiveminds. In-game, everything is, in a sense, of her design. Throughout the whole story and in the mod itself, Nunny haunts the narrative, allowing her legacy to continue making a huge impact.

Abilities

Being a hivemind, Nunny likely had access to a similar skillset as Proto Hiveminds, namely: intelligence, enhanced perception, sporulation, forced mental deterioration, biomass manipulation, and swarm intelligence.