a primary means of travel. Their abdomens taper into a two-pronged, functional stinger. The most common method of creating a Brood is through infection of a host, and this is how all Warriors-Prime are birthed. The Brood lays its eggs at the back of the necks of its victims since everything the eggs need to gestate, including all 31 nerve segments and access to the carotid and vertebral arteries, rests at the top of the spinal column. After a Queen implants her eggs into a host, the egg splices itself to the host's nervous system and rewrites its DNA into that of Brood. Upon the egg's hatching, the host undergoes transformation into a Brood Warrior-Prime. The Warrior-Prime retains the genetic memory of its host, enabling it to access the host's personality, access any of the abilities contained in the host's genetic code, and even revert to its host body when it needs to conceal itself. It can also use a transitional form between the Brood and the host, giving it access to the best abilities from each form. Brood King - This unique male Brood is a rarity and even considered a mutation in the Brood society and is created when a King egg is implanted in its host. He is the antithesis of the Brood Empress. The first known Brood King was Grand Admiral Devros of the Kree who was willingly infected by the Brood. Unlike those infected with Queen's or Drone's eggs, the Brood King cannot infect others and only suffers a slight transformation (the skin becomes scaly, the eyes enlarge and the mouth becomes full of razor-sharp teeth) and maintains much of its original personality. It's assumed that like the Empress there is only one Brood King at a time; when Devros was killed by Mar-Vell, who himself had been infect by the Queen, Mar-Vell briefly proclaimed himself the new "Brood King", but the egg was destroyed before it could fully claim him. It was later implied that the King-type egg is actually a natural response of the Brood to the experiments done 8000 years ago by the Black Judges, a secret science wing of the Kree Accusers. Understanding the Brood's volatile nature, they forcibly implanted them with a patriarchal element through a genetic engineering device which, when active, can disrupt the species' matriarchy, take control of them, and use them as weapons to disrupt rival advanced