civilizations. The device is an egg-shaped artifact which must always be protected by a containment shield and under no circumstances should the device be removed from it, because inside it lays the potential for whoever controls the item to become the dominant member of the species, giving them control over the legions of Brood that exist in the universe. This leads every Brood Queen to send their swarms in pursuit of it, to prevent any loss of their power in the Brood hive-mind. The device was eventually cracked open and eaten by Broo, a young mutant Brood drone that developed intelligence and independent thought. The properties of the egg were then transferred to Broo, giving him inherent authority over every Brood hive in existence, at least for the next 5 to 10 Kree cycles before the effects wear off. Technology The Brood, like most alien species, possess advanced technology, however due to their nature it's unknown if they developed it themselves or assimilated it for their own benefit. These include: Interstellar warships: despite using the Acanti, the Brood also use actual ships, however with a mixture of organic and inorganic material. Energy-based weapons Psi-scream weapons: gun-like devices that attacks the minds of targets with subconscious fears and hatreds. Inhibitor field: used to prevent telepaths from using their powers. Nanotechnology Teleportation Fictional species biography The Brood are the Main Universe's first natural predators, spawned on a dark galaxy prior the emergence of Galactus from his incubator. Their planet of origin is unknown, but such is their relentless evil, legend holds that the Brood originated not through natural evolution, but in otherworldly sorcery from a different universe from which they escaped, with hopes of satisfying their insatiable hunger after its collapsing. They were eventually found and captured by the Kree Empire, along with other hive species, so they could weaponize them and use them against rival empires. The Supreme Intelligence approved of the idea, stating that they could be used against the Shi'ar Empire, although, he sees that it'll take millions of years to create a large enough army to fully be unleashed as a weapon against their enemies. In the next eight million years of experimentation the Black Judges deemed the Brood a major success and were unleashed on the Shi'ar Galaxy where the Brood found certain large space-dwelling creatures that they decided to prey to use as living starships to