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After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world.
Perhaps these entities had come to prefer earth's inner abysses to the variable, storm-ravaged surface, since light meant nothing to them. Perhaps, too, they were slowly weakening with the aeons. Indeed, it was known that they would be quite dead in the time of the post-human beetle race which the fleeing minds would tenant.
~ HPL , The Shadow Out Of Time


Following their mind transfer from their conic bodies to the beetle race, the Great Race would inhabit these new bodies.

A member of this new Great Race of Yith is a hive-mind of thousands of coleopterans (EXP: Malleus Monstrorum)

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