Creature:Zanreth

The Zanreth are an aggressive spider-like race dwelling in the depths of the Fiction:Riscillia Galaxy. They are an aggressive race and turn conquered planets into their "hives."

History
The Zanreth used to be small spiders on the planet Zangren, but slowly their front legs grew into arms and they lost two of their legs while the other four grew out of the middle of their backs. They developed space technology soon enough and became part of the Galactic Civilization. They, however, were very aggressive by nature and attack a Spindel world, killing the inhabitents and transforming it into one of their many hives. Hives are an essential part of Zanreth's life cycles, as they basically coat their ruled territories with spider silk and then capture living creatures to be put inside their webs. Females will then lay eggs in the webbing and the babies feast upon their trapped ,and live, food.

The Seven Starr Alliance recongnized that this lie cycle was an essential part in Zanreth culture, or their entire species would go extinct. However, they couldn't have the Zanreth attacking worlds and basically making them inhospitalble. The Alliance offered to supply the Zanreth with wild worlds so their species could live without killing sentient beings, but the Zanreth refused, stating their children liked "sentients much better." The Alliance then forcibly driving the Zanreth away from their hive planets, the Zanreth grew to hate the Alliance and were forced to use their space stations as hives, abducting other sentient beings to use as food for the hatchlings.

The Zanreth then attacked the huge space ship the Nebula,  overrunning the ship and killing all crew members save a very few. They then transformed the enormous ship into their hive, considering it to be the perfect place for the hatchlings to thrive in. However, a lone Breckish captain called N'Roth, happened upon the ship during his travels across the Universe and entered it when he got no radio response from the crew. The Captain was astounded at the insides of the ship, now a breeding ground from the Zanreth. Zanreth assualted the Captain, trying to kill him and add him to their food supply, but the Captain fought back, being one of the most hardened Captains in the Universe. N'Roth fought into the main core of the ship, ending up triggering a self destruct to put a stop to the Zanreth's activities. The Zanreth tried to highjack his vessel to escape, but N'Roth fought them off and succeded in escaping moments before the ship exploded, killing 88% of the Zanreth population.