Thread:The Creature Slayer/@comment-35876453-20200216003437/@comment-35876453-20200216013650

Yes, a statement on the specifics of properly ordered caste moulting is something that the official lore currently lacks, so I developed one for my headcanon and named it the 'metamorphic chains', which shows two primary lines of caste moulting, the Drone metamorphic chain and the Warrior metamorphic chain:

Drone:
 * 1) Drone → Venator (Lurker) → Vanguard (Raven) → Palatine

Warrior:
 * 1) Tirone (Warrior Dome) → Warrior → Lictor type A (Royal Guard) → Praetorian Guard → King / Queen regnant → Queen regent

This is from a subsection in my dictum on xenomorph hive dynamics blog post.