Identification: non‐hive‐mind bug‐people, like giant mantises, cockroaches, or spiders (yes, I know)
Variants: bepincered, hard‐skinned humanoids with multifaceted eyes but generally only four limbs
Also Known As: Arthranthropoids, Qriippiiqrollii, or BEMs
Origin: Weta Malathion 21A, in the Prawn Nebula
LOOKS: | disconcerting but shiny, at least with a bit of carapace‐wax | C+ |
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BRAINS: | smart but abnormally bad at speaking English (tendency to buzz) | 115 |
LETHALITY: | have an array of pinchy‐bitey‐stingy bits, and commonly carry three or four venom‐pistols | 0.53 |
CULTURE: | thoroughly but mundanely alien (they sit around in swivel‐hammocks reading scratch‐and‐sniff comic books) | 70 |
HARDNESS: | often used as certified‐nonanthropomorphic aliens | 7½ |
TOKENISM: | don't in fact get to count as token insects | 25 |
Diet: anything small, wet, and wriggly, such as newborn puppies
Favourite Colour: near ultraviolet
Religion: Moreaunian sectoids
Lucky Number: six (so they get on well with the Triploids)
Not To Be Confused With: they are not now and have never been Bolshevotermitoids
See Also: the artificially exoskeletal Mechanautoids