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More likely the whole thing is probably just a really, really big computer, and the green shit in the hexagonal columns is the same sort of data slime that leaks from a game grub. Hey, maybe there’s actually some big data maggots down there somewhere. That’s what hive cells are for, right?
Sollux probably has some big government surveillance equipment churning and gurgling away right underneath his residence and has no idea. His hacking could just be doing work for them. The irony grub doesn’t stop from leaking.
another simpler but less fun possibility is that that is simply how carpenter drones build, they are insectoid after all,
Except that literally every single other hive doesn’t look like that, and the whole reason bees uses hexagon is because of the fact that they offer optimum storage space. The droids wouldn’t build things like that if it wasn’t for a useful purpose.