User:WatchesTheStars/Sandbox/Lore:Xenomorphic Hybrid
Xenomorphic Hybrid |
Denonyms: Xeno |
Xenomorphic Hybrid
Xenomorphic Hybrids are a species of "shoulds."
A creature built from one of the galaxy's most infamous predators '''should''' have remained a laboratory mistake, a military secret, or a footnote in the long history of posthuman arrogance. A line of engineered beings borrowing the instincts, anatomy, and resilience of the xenomorph '''should''' have become either an uncontrollable disaster or a perfectly obedient tool. A people born from so much fear, rumor, and deliberate obfuscation '''should''' have remained easier to classify than to understand.
And yet, Xenomorphic Hybrids persist not as a singular experiment or a coherent breed, but as citizens, workers, dependents, drifters, and families. They are not pure xenomorphs, nor are they merely humans in costume. They are the descendants of a category SolFed needed to define, and a reality it never fully managed to control.
Biology
According to the 2550 SolFed Census, there are over 30 Xenomorphic Hybrid individuals within the galaxy. According to most people in space, there are over 30 unique Xenofolk across the past two stations they've been on. This discrepancy can be explained by the nebulous definitions of what makes one a "xenomorph hybrid."
While many persons may look similar to a Xenomorph, e.g. bug genemodders and natural bipedal insect species, sociologists have narrowed down a more specific definition of a "Xenomorphic Hybrid," broader than the 2550 Census's but narrower than the layperson's.
Common Traits
- Acidic blood: While the specific acid and solution of proteins and amino acids vary between individuals, anyone legally designated a Xenomorphic Hybrid can be treated with basic Sulphuric Acid. The injection may inflict some external damage, but once contained within their cardiovascular system, the sulphuric acid works similarly to blood.
- Plasma affinity: For varying biological reasons, a Xenomorphic Hybrid is not allergic or humbled by the exotic matter Plasma, but instead stores a small reserve of it. Different individuals thrive with varying degrees in the presence of Plasma, and the most Xenomorphic individuals can infest their surroundings as the full-blooded Xenomorphs do, spreading purple weeds that scrape against the veil between Bluespace and reality, fostering the development of plasma in any Xenomorphic plasmocile atop them.
- Hivemind connection: Poetically described as "whispering on the winds of plasma, of the scars between this world and the infinite," and scientifically described as impossible, many Xenomorphic individuals possess a limited form of the Xenomorphic hivemind, permitting them to speak at significant distances to fellow Xenomorphs. The NIFsoft Hivemind is loosely based upon the communication protocols reverse engineered through medical study.
Less Common Traits
- Pointy limbs: Xenomorphic Hybrids tend to have sharp edges in some form.
- Chitinous Skin: Sometimes shiny, sometimes matted.
Culture
Who knows? They're just people.
Work in Progress: Footer subject to change at a moment's notice. Do not take a red link's presence, struck-through or otherwise, as confirmation (or denial) of their canonicity.
