Fun theme and some interesting ideas for sure! I do enjoy the multi-control over meeples, very interesting, though I do mirror concerns below about it being unfun to be the target of this, especially as certain factions.
I will say I'm a bit confused over the inclusion of the darkspore faction - I'm not really sure what they do? Thematically, I went into reading this expecting them to be a foil to the lightspores in some way, but they seem rather docile and honestly like fodder to be hit. Perhaps their inclusion is unnecessary? Or I could be missing something! I do enjoy the idea of an opposing mirror getting in the way.