White Spike

White Spikes are a species of extraterrestrial predators that appeared on Earth in North Russia, during 2048 and wiped out a significant portion of humanity.

The White Spikes are (presumably) an alien bioweapon created by an advanced species capable of interstellar travel, whose ship carrying them crashed on Earth into the Russian tundra in 946 AD, and laid buried underneath the ice for over a thousand years, before emerging in 2048 and within 3 short years, reduced the Human population to a mere 500,000, thanks to their unmatched breeding rate, insatiable hunger and unrelenting aggression, spreading like a plague across the Earth, attacking and killing any and all native life they came across.

Biology
A true invasive species, White Spikes, as their name suggests, are a pale albino-like white color, and are hexapods with six limbs consisting of four main legs for locomotion and two smaller mantis-like arms for grabbing and holding. They also possess a pair of tentacles sprouting from the flanks just in front of the rear limbs. These each possess a three digit grasper on the tip which allows them to be utilized as a set of highly flexible arms, with a single tentacle being strong enough to easily lift and throwing an adult human several metres. The tentacles also function as the ranged weapons of the creatures, each being capable of firing bony spikes grown within the body several dozen meters. The spikes are forced through a hollow tube running through the appendage until they reach an opening in the center of the grasping digits, where they are propelled with enough force to punch several inches into steel. The exact propulsion method is unknown, but appears to be extremely powerful muscular contraction.

They have two eyes located on top and to the side of their head, giving them a wide field of vision, unusual for a carnivore, and are capable of night vision. Their armor plating covers most of the White Spike's body except the neck, tentacles, legs and underbelly. Said armor is strong enough to completely resist small arms fire while remaining light.

Appearances

 * The Tomorrow War (2021)