Identification: maggotlike entities that have somehow ended up as absolute despots
Variants: emperor worms, slug mafiosi, pupa popes, leech kings, aristo gastropods, and so on
Also Known As: Guttites, Ubergrubians, or Your Imperial Majesty
Origin: the fabulously rich planet Vermulox, which has a galaxy‐wide monopoly on wormholes
| LOOKS: | have oddly humanlike facial features but wouldn't win any beauty contests (which may explain why they hate democracy) | F |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | Machiavellian | 120 |
| LETHALITY: | rarely capable of squishing enemies without help from their bodyguards | 0.06 |
| CULTURE: | prefer to be in charge of somebody else's | 18 |
| HARDNESS: | next to calcite on the SF Mohs scale | 3 |
| TOKENISM: | token right‐wingers, for political balance | 51 |
Religion: god‐emperors are constitutionally required to be autolatrous
Hobbies: major circus patrons
Weakness: salt
Wardrobe: silk
Not To Be Confused With: the Neuroparasitoids, whose political takeover strategy is more bottom‐up, so to speak
Affiliated With: the Theomaticoids, in a mutual hostility pact
See Also: immature specimens of the Insectoid type can be superficially hard to distinguish, but make fewer megalomaniacal speeches