Uber Ants breakout

 There was mass hysteria in people. The news was filled with videos of machines and men swarmed by ants! The UN had recently authorised massive chemical warfare in amazon rain forests and there was massive die off. Bald patches were emerging deep into the remaining forests. But the frontiers had already moved! 

The ants were now invading the low population density areas like farmlands and villages. A massive effort to evacuate these areas is going on, but everyone knew this wouldn't be the permanent solution.

The ants had moved deeper into the ground and came to the surface only for strategic attacks. Somehow they had got a hint of our underground infrastructure too… so borewells, sewage lines, underground power cables and oil and gas pipelines were under threat. Major infrastructure threats like nuclear power plants have already been dismantled!

Scientists were baffled by the complexity of the plans and organizing. Humanity had never imagined that the threat to our superiority would come from such small creatures and not the monsters we had been trying so hard to eradicate. They believe now that these levels of distributed intelligence had always existed in eusocial creatures, but it had never been mobilised towards weaponization before. While the worst images were coming from destruction caused to human property and lives, there was an every worse impact on other animals. We finally had a species even more devastating than ourselves.


The time was 2200 AD, the place was the Amazon forests of South America. Very soon both americas will be overrun and the remaining human populations relocate to afro-eurasia. Only the extremely cold areas are populated by military personnel. Except during spring time.

 The strategic retreat will buy humans some time, but not very long. The Uber ants will try crossing the atlantic in makeshift floating bodies. On the pacific front, much like the polynesians, ants will continue to expand island after island, only this time faster and more ruthlessly.

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