Savage Swarm

The Savage Swarm is part of the Destroyers agenda. They were released as part of the Now! series and received supplemental content from the Big in Japan set.

Like a plague of locusts sweeping across the land, the giant insectoids of the Swarm leave nothing but dust in their wake.

The prevailing explanation for the Swarm's existence, as published recently in Scientific International Monthly, is that the massive, voracious, mutant bugs are the result of an accidental cocktail including bovine growth hormones and radioactive waste. These chemicals leached into the farmlands of America's midwest, where the abominations were first encountered. Current theories submit that insect mutation intended to counter pesticides spun wildly out of control due to these unintended catalysts.



Story

 * Despite what you might have read in comic books, radioactive insects do not turn people into superheroes. They do, however, eat them.
 * —Alex Woo, leading paranormal entomology researcher

Drawn to light like many of their less destructive relatives, this unstoppable swarm of insectoids is composed of all manner of mutated insects that appear intent on demolishing anything even slightly luminescent. The Savage Swarm quickly and completely devastates everything in its path as it sweeps across the countryside, and few effective deterrents to the giant bugs have been discovered. Of course, there’s always good, oldfashioned firepower and grim determination. Reasoning with the swarm is as effective as reasoning with other insects, and all efforts to eradicate them have failed to even contain their numbers, much less reduce them. The insects appear to be endowed with super-powered reproductive capabilities and can replace the swarm’s losses within days, if not instantly. Today’s children no longer want night-lights to keep nightmares at bay—they are far more afraid of what those shining beacons might attract.

Series 4: Now!

 * Mantacon
 * Mucustos

Series 5: Big in Japan

 * Dynastavus
 * Xixorax

Series 4: Now!

 * Cliff Hopper
 * Razor Beetle
 * Spy Fly
 * Steel Back Roach

Series 5: Big in Japan

 * Dire Ant Warrior
 * Vice Pincher
 * Warlord Rifa

Installations
There are current no Savage Swarm Installations.