When the planet is completely overrun and the Mother is formed, the planet begins to 'ripen'. Hordes of digger morphs honeycomb the planet's crust and scour the world of biomass, while the roots of the Mother draw out every physiologically-valuable mineral. When this is complete, the remaining diggers absorb their bodies into the Mother, who uses the resources of the whole world to lay countless hardy clusters of eggs. The world is now ripe, and the Mother begins to rend the crust- by extension, her own body- apart, hurling massive chunks of rock, filled with vast chambers of eggs, into space. This continues until the Mother has effectively killed herself, leaving the planetary surface fragmented and ruined. Specialized morphs serve as organic rockets to aid in this, while others, festooned with sensors, detect the nearest live worlds and direct their fragments towards these places.