Xarquid

Out of Character Quick Notes

• On superhuman, Xarquids have substantial armour (for the aliens), so it will take more than a Jet Harpoon to harm them.
• Xarquids accompany Gillmen and will normally replace the Deep One for underwater missions that involved terror units.
• Mixed Crew missions have been known to use Xarquids on land such as the shipping lane missions. It's odd, but best treated as an oversight.
• Xarquids are actually giant Nautilus with a weapon shoved up the tentacles and a M.C. controller device. Also not only are they giant, they move in reverse. Real Nautilus float backwards with the tentacles behind. The Xarquid floats with the tentacles forward.

Live Specimen

Another modfied Earth invertebrate, the Xarquid is a creature of great beauty and danger.

The swift swimming gargantuan hides a devastating arsenal of weapons, a smothering ink spray and an ionised particle blast.

Since our first encounters with this powerful creature we have been wary of its power and its controllers the vengeful Gillmen.

Autopsy

This overgrown Nautilus has beeen made huge on a diet of Alien drugs and surgical alterations. Perverted beyond the scope of nature, the Gillmen have added mechanical control systems to the creature and now none of the creature's original nature exists.

Deployed as an organic weapons platform, the Xarquids tough shell and mobility make it a formidable opponent.

See Also

• Alien Life Forms
• Overviews of Aliens
• Terror Units
• Deep One
• Gillman