Name: Syphers or hive stalkers
Homeplanet: Temprent
Sentience: Semi-sentient
Strengths
-Stealth, Hive Stalkers have the natural ability to change the color of their skin and change their body temperature, making them excellent predators that can hunt even fully sentient prey.
-Numbers, the Syphers have a complicated if efficient swarming tactic upon attack and with their reproduction speed being high, they never lack numbers in an attack.
-Meelee combat, the Syphers are highly lethal if they are capable of using their claws, they also have a ranged poisonous spit attack wich is not as lethal as their claws.
-Maneuvrability, the Syphers have cling on ability and high movement speed allowing their swarm tactics to be more succesfull as they can attack from many angles and close distance with targets quickly.
Weaknesses
-Ressilience, though they are decent predators, the Syphers lack ressilience and even against other semi sentient, non sentient or sometimes downright unintelligent opponents they are known to die oftenly but ultimately kill the target by swarming them.
-Self-preservation, if a hive stalker gets spotted, they're as good as dead and they tend not to care too much about their safety, their minds are all connected through psychic connection to the hive queen.
-Lifespan, Syphers have a very low lifespan of 10 years, the queen has slightly more time with their lifespan being 40.
-Blind, the Sypher have no eyes and are blind, much like bats the syphers use echo-location.
-Echo-location, the Sypher use echo-location to hunt, wich means that in silent areas they give away their presence, however they are still skilled sneaks as their echo-location is unnecesery when they can smell their prey, meaning they only have to use echo location over long range.
Appearance
Hive stalkers are about the size of humans, though this is usually not notable due to the fact they tend to move on their legs and arms to cling to the wall, they only go bipedal when they sprint to close distance even faster than they go in on legs and arms, wich in turn also makes them easier to hit. While they normally are jet black with mustard yellow, Syphers are capable of changing their body color to camouflage, the queen however is about the size of a tyrannosaurus and has a longer snout and extra arms, though the queen never hunts herself.
Culture
Pack mentality.
History
Unknown.