Fiction:Scavengers

The Scavengers, or Szylk as they call themselves, are a race of parasitic predatory organisms. They are not really parasites, though. They infect others, but rather than use the body, they just replicate it. An infected being will look like they used to, but their cells are Szylk, imitated to look like the host's cells. Frozen on the moon of Alpha Rosetta III, Tau Theta, they have recently been awakened back into the galaxy, forming their own small empire near both the Proditkar Movement and Cult of Relgathia.