Control Bug


 * Image=N/A
 * Name=Spy Bug
 * Universe=Starship Troopers
 * Average height=4"
 * Home planet=unnamed planet, Bug Quarantine Zone
 * Diet=brains, host nutrients

The Spy Bug is a parasitic mind-control weapon used by the Bug Horde.

Parasite Bug
A parasite bug is produced inside a human host. Several an be spawned. The parasite us upchucked by the host, where it scuttles about and finds an uninfected human and crawls down their throat.

Zombie
The Parasite bonds to the host's spinal column, replacing the Central Nervous system. It begins absorbing nutrients from the host, which begins to rot from the fingers up, which is often mistaken for muzzle burn. The spy bug can quietly subvert the host to the Bugs, or go to town. If the bug chooses the second option, the host begins decomposing in earnest.

Spawning phase
The Spy bug more or less completely consumes and replaces the brain. It then cuts open the skull of the host, who is little more than a talking corpse. Another host drags them to a populated area, and tears off the top of their head, and extracts the mature spy bug. The spy bug's posterior is covered in parasite bugs, which split off and swarm the opposition when the mature spy is killed.