Alien (Alien Opponent)

This unnamed humanoid species was seen on Earth when one of its members crash-landed in a junkyard and was forced to combat dozens of dimwitted Humans sent to retrieve a corpse from the crash site.

Biology
Members of this species are tall, bulky humanoids, standing notably taller than Humans and only bearing three fingers per hand. Little is known of their body's appearance, as their only known member was seen with a full-body spacesuit, but it is known that their heads are not Human-like in shape, noticeably more oblong and somewhat piscine, bearing pale blue skin and black, round eyes with small pupils. While less agile than Humans, they are considerably stronger, able to easily rip the heads off of Humans and shrug off being tackled or struck with metal poles. Members of this species cannot breathe oxygen, requiring fully sealed suits to survive on Earth, but what gas they normally breathe is unknown.

Culture and society
Little is known of the society of this species, but their spaceship routes are known to go by Earth, and interstellar pilots of this species carry a considerable amount of deadly traps aboard their ships. Additionally, while they do not actively seek out conflicts with the natives of less advanced worlds, they are known to preemptively set up traps to keep natives away if forced to land on such a planet, such as to make repairs. They only directly engage those who provoke them by attacking them directly or tripping one of their traps, although the aliens also show no qualms with killing children who get caught tripping traps or working alongside other perceived hostiles. Additionally, the aliens do appear to take other measures against perceived threats if the threat escalates, such as setting up sentries that actively seek threats and reanimating corpses to use as extra soldiers. Despite resorting to very violent defensive measures, aliens are also known to sometimes communicate directly with perceived threats, telling them to stay away to not be harmed, and also do not attack anyone who they do not see as a threat, often just walking by them. The language of this species is unknown, but very distinct from English, written with symbols that do not resemble any Earth language.

Technology
This species has developed highly advanced technology, such as spacecraft equipped with cloaking fields and enough armor to survive crashing into terrain while remaining mostly intact, and can presumably be repaired with 21st century Human-made materials. Their ships do not have any known armaments, but have a defense system that burns anyone who touches it with exposed flesh, able to completely burn away Human limbs in a short time. While the aliens have access to sophisticated robotics, including a shark-like robot with a holographic dorsal fin that is capable of "swimming" through dirt and quickly tearing apart Humans, they are also capable of creating similarly sophisticated humanoid robots out of Human scrap, and powering their scrap robots with a palm-sized glowing blue spherical device. These sphere devices can also resurrect living beings, even parts of living beings, as near-mindless zombies that do not feel pain, do not need brains to function, and are hostile to other living beings, although removing the device will kill the zombie.

Alien exosuits, meant to keep them alive on worlds that are inhospitable to them, are fully sealed and well-armored, appearing impervious to all conventional weaponry and physical damage. They are colored white, with black joints, a respirator over the alien's nose and mouth, and a visor that is normally opaque but can become clear. There is presumably a sphere device somewhere on their suits, as they can reanimate and directly control dead body parts they hold with a spark of blue energy, the same type of energy seen in the sphere devices, able to use the heads of other species as organic translators through this technology. Additionally, alien exosuits possess holographic displays that can be projected from their wrists, showing them the status of their ships and traps. Alien traps in question vary in function, but most are buried in the ground and are activated when a tiny antennae-like trigger is tripped. Buried alien traps are known to consist of metal wires that flick out with enough speed to dismember Humans, freezing gas capable of freezing Humans enough to shatter within seconds, and traps that suck targets underground before launching them into the air at high speed, killing them with the fall. One alien trap is not buried, and takes the form of an organic egg carrying a great number of alien slugs.

Appearances

 * Alien Opponent (2010)