[Intro] [Overgrown Ruins] [Scout Log: Planet Atropos + Eternal Void] [Kerberon] [Kerberonyx]
2[DATABASE ENTRIES]
[KERBERON]
[Research Level][1]
A medium-sized quadruped with a lizard-like torso and head, but with feet and mane made of long, tentacle-like limbs. The tentacles are unusually flexible and strong, able to bunch together to support the creature's weight as it moves. The longer mane-tentacles are most likely used for sensing environment and for threat displays, as the blue luminescence it emits intensifies just as it's about to attack. The creature attacks mainly with [UNKNOWN REFERENCE] energy it spits from its mouth, but can also leap at the target at close range.
[Research Level][2]
Kerberon displays pack-like characteristics [PARSING ERROR] mid-body and holes in the head, potentially the manner in which it senses prey. As carnivore [DATABASE MISMATCH] kills its young in such extreme cases. Plausible scenarios include: scarcity of resources, failure to bond despite offspring's successful imprinting, self-preservation, boredom.
[Research Level][3]
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[KERBERONYX]
[Research Level][1]
Genetically near-identical to Kerberons, but some [CORRUPTED TEXT] seem to cause an individual to mutate, becoming larger, more damage-resistant, and able to spit a higher amount of projectiles in one expulsion. Instead of the blue luminescence present in their smaller counterparts, the Kerberonyx have gained an orange coloring, which does stand out more in its environment, making it a potential mating display. Currently classifying these as two separate subspecies, although it is unclear if they are able to cross-breed.
[Research Level][2]
These Kerberons display much higher levels of [MISSING PARAMETER]. The hard-to-detect sensitive spot on their underside likely to contain their [MATCH NOT FOUND], but like everything else it is destroyed explosively on expiration. Not enough data on their physiology and life cycle to determine what causes this evolution.
Additional data needed for further analysis.
[Research Level][3]
\.,.#=to be able to observe a live specimen?" Nose quirked up, but without contempt. He was considering the possibilities without calling her a madwoman; everyone else whispered the invective under their breaths whenever she left the room. Considering the slaughter their last test subject had committed... they'd have to develop a method of retrieval that)-=\