Meet Flare, a alien queen. She is a new stage in evolution of her species no longer depend on host the newborn emerge from eggs devoid of facehugger,

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her egg was hidden away due to some chaos in the hive. When she came out ... all was quite... an in an alien hive it is never quite there is always a murmur of sounds, thoughts. She makes a small squeaked her vocal much better than her kin, due in part of having a sift real tongue. As she squeaked someone flashes a light down the tunnel as see her coated in her fluids from the egg...

Art and Flare © Myself
Alien species ... um James Cameron? ... maybe some others