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Description of it as an 'outworld' has me imagine the ants' nest as a starship on a grand voyage of exploration through the cosmos - with the ants discovering a new planet and immediately going "Prime Directive? what? lol" and gleefully, carefully terraforming the place in their image before moving on.
(I'm now expecting there to be actual, uninhabited exoplanets out there with extensive ant-like improvements...)
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