The arthropod lineage is not an enlarged Earth insect pasted into a human social model. Scaling, respiration, molting, circulation and cognition must evolve together.
PRELIMINARY · content and parameters remain subject to canon/science review.
Exoskeleton, limbs, sensory structures and structural scale.
Tracheal limits and plausible evolved alternatives for large bodies.
Individual intelligence versus colony-level information processing.
Superorganism organization, communication and logistics.
Worker, builder, soldier and reproductive specialization.
Giant bodies require changes in respiration, circulation, exoskeletal architecture, heat dissipation and development. The civilization can then build on caste specialization, chemical communication and biofabrication.