Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Members/Chik'Kccrch

The Chik'Kccrch are an insectoid species with 17 legs. A long, flat, and wide body is supported by 9 of the legs, an equally long but much thinner tail is supported by the other 8. A set of large mandibles at the front of the creatures body serves as it's mouth and speaking device. Simple, but effective, graspers, made out of claws with 2 digits and an immobile spike allow them to manipulate their environment.

Females are the intelligent members of the species, with the males being tiny versions of them that live within the females carapace. They feed off of her fecal matter and mate whenever she's in heat. Besides that, they will protect her and keep her clean so that they can continue to survive, like a parasite or symbiotic life form.

Chik'Kccrch are detravores, they eat everything that others don't, be in fecal matter, rotten meat, or plant matter. This earned them a negative reputation in Mecharicon, and got them many crappy jobs like waste disposal and the like. They are, in reality, an immensely intelligent species, and have come to Andromeda to prove it.

A Scientist mentality with a Lawful Neutral nature, they aren't warriors. They look fearsome, but looking as as fierce as they get. They are a mostly pacifistic species, though the males are mindless eating machines that have no concept of peace, and as such refuse to enter into any kind of weapons development.