The Chronicles of Henry Roach-Dairier: The Inception of the Combined Colonies

The world of Henry Roach-Dairier continues, but the torch of chronicling the events has past to his grandson and namesake. Some twenty to twenty-five thousand years after the extinction of human beings, the earth is quite different. It is dominated by highly-evolved, large and intelligent ants and cockroaches, and other "wild" insects. Ants live comunal lives, dedicated to each other, while roaches are materialistic and self-centered. Both species are chemically dependent on plastic--mined from the land fills of the long extinct duo pods--the most valuable resource of the ant/roach world. Plastic is vital to the mental development of ant larvae and roach nymps. Without it, they reach adulthood physically and mentally impaired.After the death of his grandfather, young Henry Roach-Dairier II promises to research and complete the story of how the ant colonies formed the Combined Colonies of Insectia. In this setting, one roach official, whose plastic mine has run dry, forcibly takes over