Talpaedan

The Talpaedans were a humanoid armadillo-like species from the desert planet Terraexcava in The Andromeda Galaxy.

Anatomy
Talpaedans are 10-feet-tall robotic armadillo-like aliens with heads that look similar to a Greek Corinthian helmet, hard armored skin, jackhammer-like arms with grey or gold pistons, grey or gold tails, four-fingered hands, and three-toed feet. Some of them have grey or gold shoulder bolts. They also have grey, partially translucent blood.

Although they traditionally have yellow skin, Talpedans can come in other colors. For example, Talpaedans from Dimension 23 have blue skin and Negative Armodrillo has red skin.

Ecology
Talpaedans are preyed on by Slammoids, who can also dig underground at a fast rate.

Powers and abilities
Talpedans have incredible digging capabilities thanks to the powerful organic pneumatic drills built into their forearms. They can transform their hands into drills to help themselves burrow underground and move through solid earth and rocks. A Talpedan's drill hands can be very useful in battle, and cause a lot of pain to a Galilean.

Talpaedans are heavily armored, making them durable enough to withstand attacks from many powerful opponents and being thrown through walls and other solid surfaces. They are also immune to an Aerophibian's neuroshock blasts.

Talpaedans have incredible strength, being able to destroy Dimension 12 robots with ease, lift a Mucilator, and fight on-par with Trombipulor's Species.

Talpedans can create destructive earthquakes and vibrations capable of collapsing buildings into rubble by either placing or slamming their hands on the ground before pumping their jackhammer pistons. Similarly, they can propel themselves into the air using this procedure.

Talpadans can create shock waves powerful enough to blast away a Crabdozer with a single punch and launch objects around the same size as an Atrocian that they are holding using their jackhammer arms.

Talpadans have the capability to cause a magnitude 10 earthquake depending where they tried, such as fault lines on tectonic plates.

Weaknesses
Certain weapons can cause a Talpedan's nervous system to go out-of-control, making them unable to stop vibrating their arms.

A Talpaedan's drills are in effective against a species with great durability, such as Tetramands.

There is a clear limit to a Talpaedan's durability, as they can be incapacitated by either electricity or quills fired by Argit's Species.

Talpaedans can be suffocated if a large amount of matter, including Nanochip drones, covers their bodies and compresses them hard enough.

Talpaedans are unable to generate earthquakes on certain surfaces, such as bedrock.

Technology
Talpaedans have developed machinery capable of resisting impacts.