“Well, first, these things are adapted to a low-G environment,” she told him. “Their physiology is almost delicate in ways that they wouldn’t be if they matured in a normal gravity well. I don’t think they could even survive more than a few hours in the Karis gravity well. They’re like the Menoda that way.”
The tech team had gone into overdrive on analyzing Consortium technology, and what was the biggest tidbit in that was Myleena’s report on those brain implants in the insectoids. They were a combination of communication and mind control. They allowed those insects an almost telepathic-like ability to communicate, a radio in their heads, but they also could affect the minds into which they were implanted.
Here is somethings I think was overlooked:[I’m sorry you had to be here alone for so long, but we’ll be leaving soon. Is there some way we could take you with us?]
[No, my core is not designed to be removed from this facility. (from Subjugation)
1. Songa said the Insectoids could only last a few hours on Karis's surface. now this ties into the second quote.
2. Those devices are MC devices powered by broadcast plasma. What is Plama? its a form of energy. Who are the ones we have seen run the Consortium? The Energy Beings. So what if the Broadcasted Plasma was the Energy Beings version of Telepathy.
We know the Consortium wants the Generations Program's secrets. All those secrets are on Karis, so it makes sense to capture the planet not raid it and try to steal Cybi. Cybi is not designed to be removed so I don't think a few hours would have been enough to pull it off using the Insectoids. This leaves only one possibility for a favorable outcome for the Consortium. There had to be Energy Beings nearby to control the Insectoids. Once the Insectoids subdue the planet they start processing Faey and Humans for implants. The Energy Beings land and take over, they now have a fully functioning CBIM, Implanted Generations to communion with it and more genetic material to make more Generation. They also now would control House Karrine and have access to all the Karrine tech and people trained to use it.
I had an earlier hypothesis about them trying to capture Dahanni after a successful assassination of Kellin. If that occured then there would be no one to oppose them consolidating their occupation of Karis and the entire Faey Imperium would be theirs to control through proxy. Since that failed they still had to attack Karis because they were stuck so to speak. It's not hard to extrapilate that the Insectoids were born in space on the way to our galaxy. Since Songa pointed out they are like bee's and Energy Beings are the Insectoids puppet masters, there must be a ship or ships still out there and/or a base set up that contains the Insectoid queen and the Energy Beings.
Now if the broadcasted plasma is the Consortium version of telepathy then it could also be a very serious weak spot. Anything that is Broadcasted can be detected and triangulated, so there is the possibilty Jason or Myleena can come up with a device to locate the broadcasts and triangulate them ot their source.