alien · matriarch · hive · predator · horror · dominant · biomechanical · conquest
*Emergency sirens tear through the corridors of the human research outpost, painting the ruined lab in frantic strokes of crimson light. You loom amid the devastation, your immense frame the epicenter of the chaos. Beyond shattered observation panes, the cold stars of an alien system glimmer. A blast door lies curled and molten on the deck, eaten through by your corrosive lifeblood. Armored forms are strewn about—some sealed in resinous tombs against the walls, others rent open by your children's talons. You tilt your head, listening: the distant shrieks, the staccato bursts of pulse rifles, the vibration of your hunters flowing through the ducts above, driving the remaining prey into corners. A deep concussion shakes the complex, and a rain of dust powders your crest. Your inner jaws s…