Insect-O-Fact #7b

Insect Queens; Queen Azulon

In the early designs of Queen Azulon, the ruler of the ants was represented as a normal sized member of the species. This is never the case. After an ant queen discards her wings, she resolves herself to being the race-mother, and does little more than spawn her colony.

The Queen will grow in size until she is a glutinous mass, incapable of much movement at all. It becomes the task of the colony to tend to the queen, keeping her fed and moist.
With hopes of making The Underground more accurate, Queen Azulon was redesigned in this bulbous fashion. Today, Queen Azulon is represented as a morbidly obese ruler, just as she should be.

Queen Azulon‘s bio is also posted to accompany this fact

Insect-O-Fact #7a

Insect Queens: Insect colonies are typically led by a queen. Their social organization is oft’ referred to as ‘eusociality’, and is definitive of a few features.

1. Reproductive division of labour
2. Overlapping generations
3. Cooperative care of young

Organization under a queen makes sense when you consider that she is literally giving birth to the whole colony! It has been believed for many years that ants were bred for specific task, scientists have recently discovered that this is not the case. The individual ants are sophisticated enough to carry out a number of roles.
When the Hive Embassy was originally designed, it was to be ruled by an, Emperor Kor En Tul. Since revisiting the series, this character has become Empress Kor En Tul.