Identification: spacefaring blobs, ranging in size from the ones that clog your starcruiser's radiator grill to the ones that engulf your planetary system
Variants: space‐mould infestations, space‐protozoa, and sex‐mad space‐jellyfish
Also Known As: Macrobes, Galacto‐Nebulitis, or Lurgii
Origin: most prevalent in the galaxy's large intestine
LOOKS: | sometimes have surprisingly shapely and graceful vesicles | D |
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BRAINS: | they don't even have a central nervous system | 0 |
LETHALITY: | they could swallow a fair‐sized asteroid, but they're probably more scared of you than you are of them | 0.95 |
CULTURE: | would require an awful lot of agar | 00 |
HARDNESS: | about as scientifically feasible as gastric quasars | ½ |
TOKENISM: | token prokaryotes | 60 |
Affiliated With: the Conciliary Ententicles (flagella count)
Favourite Colour: blue‐green
Motto: divide and conquer
Gram Staining: positive
Weakness: the biomechanical square‐cube law
Not To Be Confused With: the Astrolocustoids, who bite instead of sucking