Cryspo

The Cryspo were a group of insectoid organisms that humanity had accidentally discovered during the wave of exploration that the spirits enabled. Cryspo invaded UniVang without any hostility to humans until the cryspo had discovered the nutritional value they offered to the larvae, a discovery which had sparked a war that the humans were losing. The human last resort was to use a biological weapon which was just as intrusive to human genetics, forcing both species to cut the chain of worlds off from their homeworlds to prevent a total loss. Consequentially those left behind merged into the Creature Soup and the survivors of this disaster became the current inhabitants of UniVang. The technology of the cryspo is not well known, but the biomimetic "terminator" weapons that functioned as suicide drones are the only mechos hardware described as "cryspoid" which could just as easily suggest that they're imitations of cryspo biology.

Biology
Very little is known about the physiology of the cryspo except for what physical traits of the bios are absent from humans. The crypso are described as being split into "divisions" which includes a queen, and the larvae. Psychologically, they were very simple organisms that acted on the larva's chemical instructions in a similar manner to ants, and only exhibited intelligence as a consequence of their collective intelligence.