1) Does a binding ritual need to be performed in order to have a insect inhabit a host? i.e. does the dawn/dusk limitation continue while they are in the inhabitation process, or does the process inhibit that? p100, "An inhabiting spirit permanently merges with a prepared vessel, [. . .]" This leads me to believe bound is not a problem since unmerging due to dawn/dusk is a null issue.

2) Hybrid forms add their force to the victim's physical attributes, but what happens for Flesh Forms? The p100 sidebar does not mention their attributes at all, only their memories, skills, and abilities. Note abilities are considered seperate from attributes in the hybrid form section.

3) Do the spirits retain the use of all their powers while in a hybrid/flesh form? If so what does the natural weapons power look like? Or does a flesh form have essentially a form of Killing Hands?

4) Do the sentances regarding banishing and DNI from hybrids remain in effect for flesh forms? If so does that imply something about adding the spirits power to the hosts attributes answering #2 above?

5) Based on all this what is the maximum rate of inhabitation for an insect shaman? Basically the fastest an insect shaman could invest is 1 per day since the vessel prep time has an interval of 1 day, assuming he always succeds on his first roll. Or can he use the skill power to grant a worker with enchanting and then have a fleet of workers busily enchanting away? Maybe even gathering the enchanting materials...

This one I want to know because I'm using a insect shaman as a major threat in my current campaign and I'm wokdering how fast I can consider his conjuring rate so I know how much down time to give him from his nefarious plotting in order to repopulate his hive. 1 Per day seems amazingly slow, and that's as fast as it's going to get and the shaman gets no days off... Also does SM give any idea of costs for regents?

Do all mantid shaman babes know praying mantis kung fu?

I'd say the easiest way to describe it is just horrific damage meted out by truly inhuman strength. Superman probably hasn't got "Killing Hands," but if he were to just grab and twist (or even just grab and squeeze, or plain old stick his hand through the skull of) a normal human being, there'd be plenty of blood spraying around. Having spirits fight in the same way (or vampires, now that I think about it) might be a good way to hit home their inhumanity -- they tear people to shreds simply by not caring about their physical host (you can hit someone awful hard when you have no fear of damaging your own bones), and being physically strong enough to rend people limb from limb with ease.

In a way, that's more terrifying -- a seemingly normal human being just sticking his fist through someone's chest -- than something more flashy or obviously dangerous (nasty claws, flaming auras, or what-have-you).

Excellent Synner thanks.
One last thing then, is the magically enhanced attributes from spirit inhabitation limited by racial caps? Or is my NPC troll gang leader Force 5 flesh form truely as scarry as I think he is?

My logic is that the Shaman want's to use this gang as a source of "Recruitment" and putting a little something special into the Gang Leader would provide volumes of benefit at a later date/time. The ability to throw his binding dice into the Targets side would make up for a lot of lacking mental attributes.

And the questions never end:

Do hybrid/flesh forms use the initiative of the spirit, or initiative based on the stats of the form?

Do they get the spirit's 2 initiative passes or just 1? Or is it based on the cyber in the form since they can benefit from cyber.

Can you go "under the knife" as a hybrid/flesh form and implant cyber, or does immunity to normal weapons mean the surgeon has to have a scalpel weapon focus?

Subject, of course, to official confirmation, here are my takes on the answers: