Creature:Mirusian Xenomorph

"Serpents are one of the finest prey items to hunt upon. Their heads adorn many halls, and add great honor to our Clans."

The Mirusian Xenomorph is an incredibly hostile and dangerously unstable group, brought from the by the ancient, the ancestors of the. These ancient warriors, seeking a challenge for themselves and their Clans, sought out numerous violent races and creatures to breed and use in battle. The Kulaung studied the Xenomorphs for much time, before abducting and capturing several for their own use in arena challenges and briefly in warfare to support their troops. Through selective breeding, they produced their own breed for use in their home galaxy to test their might, and sought to breed only the most intelligent, brutal and aggressive of them for their uses.

Though aggressive and intelligent, this species is, due to their genetic tampering and breeding by their Kulaung owners, much more prone to genetic anomalies, leading to clashes between their Hives at random point, and the evolving of random traits that will either be eliminated by the rest of their hive, or accepted into it and become part of their grouping once more. This has lead to the Mirusian breed of these beasts being far more unpredictable and hard to plan against then their cousins, which combined with their cunning and brutality, makes them a horrific foe to deal with.

Though long left alone by their former breeders and such, the modern Kulaung have slowly rediscovered and found their old war-beasts, and have had to deal with numerous bouts with them. Or, they have had to deal with the aftermath of other races dappling with creatures they should've avoided...

Breeding Program
The Mirusian Xenomorph was first created by the ancient, after their travels across the universe lead them into the Quadrants. There, they traded with a number of powers, tested their skills in battle with others, and sought out many interesting worlds to record and look at, but one life form that drew their interest was the, a savage and powerful parasitic lifeform. Impressed by it's structural perfection, and great hostility towards nearly every form of life it encountered, the Kulaung declared their intent to capture them for breeding and use to test their warriors. Other races thought them mad, but a few just as mad as the Kulaung tribes joined them, and they journeyed into these hives to retrieve eggs and tissue samples. What occurred thereafter is unknown to the modern historians and the Mendel descended from the Kulaung tribes, but whatever happened, the Kulaung received their Xenomorph samples, though many died horrific deaths in the attempt, and returned to Mirus with their bounty.

The Tribal and Clan leaders looked upon the Xenomorphs with curiosity and slight horror at the creatures. After deep study to their biology and ways of reproduction, the Kulaung transferred a number of them to hunting and reservation worlds, to breed and create a new breed for use by the Kulaung in hunting and tests of strength. For this purpose, the Kulaung created artificial womb structures. Realizing the Xenomorphs reproduced by implanting eggs and embryos in others, the Kulaung found such dishonorable, and refused to allow such a practice, using the artificial wombs to implant the eggs, allow the embryo to adopt DNA, and harmlessly be born without sacrificing lives for it.

As they worked, they not only changed genetic mixtures, but worked to create a new breed separate but related to the Quadrant breed, one more aggressive and intelligent then their cousins, and could stand up to, and challenge the Kulaung in their bouts of skill and bravery. These genetic tests were at first failures, Xenomorphs often going rapid and insane, and killing everything, then themselves to slick their thirst for blood.

Though difficult, they managed to produce their own Xenomorphs for use, the "Serpents" as they called them, proving to be formidable foes. Though intelligent and cunning, Kulaung protection policies managed to keep them from breaking out and infesting local ecosystems, so even when the Kulaung left for years at a time, the Xenomorphs would be kept within a controlled area, and unable to damage or destroy the planets they were kept on, though many Kulaung wisely kept them on deserted or desolate regions and worlds to avoid any trouble.

The Kulaung were forced to abandon the Serpents when the Zarto Vong invaded, and fractured the Kulaung into many species. The Xenomorphs were left within their holds and worlds, some going into hibernation for centuries on end, to wait for new hosts and foes to fight. Many were discovered by wayward alien races, and allowed to break out by unwary aliens, allowing them to overtake worlds and gain new hosts. Others hibernated for thousands of years on end. The world where the Kulaung first stored the Xenomorphs, did not, however, and they not only overtook the world, but began to evolve into new forms, unseen from any before or since.

Rediscovery
With the rebirth of the Kulaung among their descendant races, the new generation of Kulaung discovered numerous worlds used to hold these vicious beasts, causing them to approach every world with caution, and begin to breed the Xenomorphs once more, in order to test themselves, but also gain scientific understanding of their habits and race. Kirta was weary of the beasts, and did not want them unleashed upon the galaxy and universe at large without control factors in place, and kept many of them a secret from the other powers, informing only their highest leadership, not wanting any more knowledge then what was necessary to get out about the creatures.

Behavior
The Xenomorphs, as a whole, operate much like many other insectoid species. They are guided by a Queen, work together in the gathering of resources and overwhelming of foes, and fight in large numbers against those that would destroy them. Without fail, in their studies, the Kulaung found the Xenomorphs to be inherently hostile and aggressive, no matter what, almost always assaulting and attacking a foe without fail, and using their natural weaponry in numerous inventive, and very disturbing ways. The Kulaung found them repulsive in some ways, but welcomed their physical strength.

Throughout the tests conducted on them, the Xenomorphs displayed extreme levels of problem solving, strategic abilities and adaptation to problems and risks. Though many would end use weight of numbers and applied force, 1 in every six of them would evolve above average intelligence and leadership of their sisters. Likewise, even those incapable of this higher level, showed the ability to outsmart certain AI programs and Warriors, causing the Elders to advise caution when fighting Xenomorphs as a test. As such, they categorized their foes into two classes, Hard Meat and Soft Meat. Soft Meat would be fellow sentients, who, while strong, had intelligence and skill, while Hard meat were beasts with natural weapons and cunning, both strong and capable in their own rights.

Higher forms were observed showing greater and greater thought patterns and intelligent direction, causing many to postulate that, at one point, the Xenomorphs would develop sentient thought of their own if given time to develop, though whether something like that was something that needed to be explored was the subject of much debate.

Biology
The Xenomorphs, as a whole, are thin, wiry creatures, seemingly possessed of strength beyond what their bodies would allow, even the strongest Kulaung have trouble overpowering such beasts. Prying open iron doors with their bare hands, tearing open armor with their claws and tails, and resistant to most forms of injury that can befall them, even the Pulse and plasma rounds used by Kulaung/Mendel forces. If the metallic exoskeleton is pierced, acidic blood will come shooting out, often melting and burning through anything, and dangerous to touch for at least 30 minutes.

Although their appearance changes and alters itself based on the host they inhabit, they do share a number of similarities between themselves, most notably, a black, glossy shell, with a strangely bio-mechanical structure to it, making it difficult to tell if they are organic or not. Adding to this, is their appearant inability to age or feel the rigors of time and such, able to enter a state of dormancy to keep not only most detection systems from finding them, but also allowing them to remain in one place for thousands of years at a time, and can reactivate their bodies once living bodies are detected near them.

They have a strong inner jaw within their primary jaws, allowing them to shoot it out and splinter armor and skulls with ease, and usually have a flexible tale to stab and slash into victims.

Quotes from others

 * add Your Own!