Alien Race Document: Atelsikor

Overview
Atelsikor are humanoid in shape, but their anatomy differs vastly from most sentient species. They are lesser Xenoforms, and are actively hostile to most sentient life. Where they can, they devour societies and use the gained resources to grow their kind.

History
The Atelskior are a newer race, but still far older than Humanity. They were created by the Necrophages as a tool to generate food. As such, the Atelsikor have been gifted with technology and biology to rival sentient species. They operate as a quasi-hivemind, with local commandant beings that oversee the actions of their armies in a broad sense. Individual Atelsikor don't have free will, but do have individual thought to the extent needed to solve complex problems presented on a battlefield. In this regard, they are akin to a biological version of a robot army network.

Technology
The Atelsikor aren't gifted with intelligence themselves, but were designed in a way that allows them to replicate the technology given them by the Necrophages. Their primary weaponry is an organic plasma repeater which is caustic to biological matter. They have very primitive space transport, relying on real-time travel using crude impulse drives. What they lack in travel they make up for in number and will. A single Atelskior ship can be thousands of meters long, containing hundreds of thousands of drones as well as mass plasma drivers capable of evaporating smaller craft and installations from orbit. But alone these ships are vulnerable against other craft. However Atelskior generally favor swarm-like attacks, launching thousands of ships at once to bombard a planet with troops and plasma until it is a burning rock near devoid of life.