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Right now, your relativistic shells are insanely strong, but with combine:
* They can create monster battleships: - Huge HP pools - Maybe thick enough or weirdly structured enough that some hits don’t fully wreck them
* These mega-units can tank: - Many more hits than any single monster before - Enough to actually push through regions of heavy fire

Think of it like:

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===== The hive mind could: =====
* Combine 1000-hit units with other monsters to make super-cores: - Tanks inside tanks.
* Wrap combined monsters in layers: - Outer skin from 10-hit types - Inner armor from 100-hit - Core from 1000-hit

You don’t just have tanks now—you have nested, fusion tanks.

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* Billions of small things that die singly,

they can:
* Fuse into fewer, more dangerous threats that: - Are harder to one-shot, - Can survive more near-misses, - Can be dedicated to specific tasks (ramming, shielding, distracting, etc.).