History Characters / StarfinderMonsters

[[foldercontrol]]

!!Vermin
[[folder:Apari]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

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* BeePeople: The apari queen is the only fertile member of the hive and is responsible for spawning constituents and daughter hives alike.
* HiveCasteSystem: An apari is a gigantic beetle-like creature both home and queen to a swarm of tiny insects, each of which has an extremely specialised role.
* HiveMind: A young apari hive and its 'mother' remain chemically linked, so that if disaster befalls one of them, surviving constituents can potentially join a linked hive and continue to thrive.
* MultipleChoicePast: Aparis have been present on most Pact Worlds prior to the Gap, and there's plenty of in-univese speculation how they could have achieved spaceflight during that time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crate Fiend]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Ambush predators from Taekah III that use cast off shells or empty containers to hide in.
----
* AcidAttack: They have a ranged acid attack.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Like real-life hermit crabs, they use any appropriately sized container to hide in and carry it around with them as additional protection. Also like hermit crabs they've adapted to use man-made items as well as the natural ones they originally evolved to take advantage of, using cargo crates and barrels as shells.
* MorePredatorsThanPrey: Averted, they're scavengers by nature and prefer to avid discovery rather than fight, though larger ones will go after live prey.
* RedBaron: Technically they're called taekahbs, but they're almost universally referred to crate fiends.
* TakingYouWithMe: When killed they get to make one last acid blast attack for free against any target in range.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Diatha]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diatha.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A common diatha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (normal), 5 (elder)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Diathas are a common species of what are known as “explosive slugs.” Found throughout the galaxy, including on Vesk-2, diathas store energy in chemical chains, rather than in fat deposits, making them highly volatile.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Khefak]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3 (normal), 3 (Thasteron)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small (normal), Medium (Thasteron)

Before Drift travel, Khefak Biogenetics engineered a species to consume rubble, scrap, and dust and then biochemically refine what would be waste material back into usable fuel for thasteron engines. With the advent of Drift travel the thasteron market crashed and the khefaks were abandoned. They were expected to die off on their own, but instead they spread and propagated into a common pest species on Akiton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flayer Leech]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flayer_leech.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

A flayer leech is a tiny invertebrate that flenses its prey and uses their hide as a chrysalis to become an doppelganger of them.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Odheo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Obnoxious pests that spread with incredible speed.
----
* ActionBomb: When killed they explode into a shower of gore and slime as one last "fuck you." Said explosion doesn't do damage but does inflict penalties to saves against diseases.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Their rapid breeding cycle makes it incredibly difficult to root out an infestation once they've set in.
* MultipurposeTongue: Their spiked tongues are used to latch onto larger creatures and suck their blood.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Space Vermin]]
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Role:''' Combatant

!!!Asteroid Louse
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Size:''' Small

Asteroid lice are communal creatures that feed on minerals in the stone of their airless habitats.
----

!!!Necropede
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Large

Necropedes were once centipede-like scavengers on Eox; they now have a bite that can digest undead flesh.
----

!!!Warpmoth Swarm
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Fine (swarm)

A warpmoth is like a glowing blue-white speck attracted to moving light, such as other warpmoths or passing starships. Gathering in swarms and following ships helps the moths feed and mate.
----

!!!Planetoid Beetle
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Huge

Territorial creatures that feed on stone for the minerals. Careless quarrying and shipping have accelerated their spread through the galaxy.
----

!!!Comet Wasp Swarm
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Size:''' Diminutive (swarm)

Comet wasps create nests in frozen interstellar bodies. These icy, venomous vespids lay their eggs in living creatures.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stellar Protozoa]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

Stellar protozoans are single-celled organisms larger than some space stations. Mindless and voracious, these creatures move through space draining energy and consuming matter.

* ShoutOut: A shameless reference to the amoeba from Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Synapse Worm]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/synapse_worm_starfinder.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Opportunist ambush predators that put prey into a state of synaptic shock to feed on at its leisure.
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* AcidAttack: They can douse their enemies in acid as a ranged attack.
* BreathWeapon: They spray a rapidly expanding slime that deals acid damage and dazes whatever touches it.
* ChameleonCamouflage: They're typically the same color as the environment around them, which gives them a bonus to Stealth checks but isn't enough to count as its own ability.
* SandWorm: A very small example and one that really looks like it would be better suited for an aquatic lifestyle, but they burrow into the ground to ambush prey and hey live in any warm environment.
[[/folder]]

!!Fey
[[folder:Gremlins]]
!!Computer Glitch Gremlin
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

A breed of grmlin especially common (and feared) in societies with advanced technology. They demonstrate remarkable single-mindedness in their pursuit of mayhem as they find new and more frustrating ways to make technology break, glitch, or fail.

!!Hobkins Gremlin
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hobkins_gremlin.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (normal), 4 (malefactor)
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

Hobkins find particularly malicious glee in manipulating others into destroying their own equipment.

!!Ship Glitch Gremlin
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

Similar to computer glitch gremlins, ship glitch gremlins constantly strive to find new and interesting ways to make starships malfunction.

[[folder:Asteray]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

Eerie space-dwelling fey that sustain themselves on cosmic energies, yet prefer organic morsels. Their sonic calls can distort sensors, creating false distress beacons or masking asteroid fields.

* BizarreAlienBiology: They're little more than elongated and brittle bones held together by sinews and skin.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They understand the needs of others, but can't quite grasp that someone's desire to live should be prioritized over their own amusement.
* EnthrallingSiren: They don't ensnare the minds of pilots, but they can manipulate sensors and signal receivers to about the same effect.
* InSeriesNickname: They're sometimes called "deep angels," which also counts as an IronicNickname.
* ToServeMan: They have a tendency to eat the bodies of sentients they've led to their deaths.

[[folder:Calecor]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 17
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

When a world suffers a global calamity—a tremendous loss of resident life-forms due to asteroid impact, rapid climate change, war, or other apocalyptic scenario—the ramifications can ripple far beyond that planet. In some cases, as the torrent of souls leaves for the afterlife, some of the life energy from dying fey creatures and nonsentient organisms ripples back to the First World, tearing a hole in the fabric of the Material Plane. The essence of the First World surrounds and contains this blast of anguished energy, waves of planar force wrapping around it like an oyster making a pearl, until the two elements combine and solidify into a new entity, a calecor

[[folder:Comanide]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster

->'''Size:''' Medium

Fey born from comets that can see mystical patterns in both natural events and in mortal affairs.

[[folder:Hesper]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Fey that seek out and thrive off of radiation.

* BodyHorror: They inflict mutations on those they strike. Anyone who has the misfortune of suffering this effect multiple times can become a mess of vestigial limbs, tumors, sores, and body parts growing [[EyesDoNotBelongThere where they definitely]] [[TooManyMouths shouldn't grow]].
* InterspeciesRomance: They're notorious flirts and often take mortal lovers.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Some of the mutations they give provide bonuses, though they always have penalties to balance them out.

[[folder:Hulsa]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Fey connected to remote stars that love to teach others about the physical phenomena of the universe.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gwahled]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gwahled.png]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 15

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Titanic fey that prey on fear, posing as world-ending meteors to feed on the terror of worlds without care for the chaos it causes.

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* ColonyDrop: Invoked and subverted. They ''want'' their targets to think they're going to suffer this, nihilistic fear is really satisfying - they don't actually want to kill anyone directly though, actually destroying a planet would remove a food source.
* EmotionEater: Of fear; scaring the pants off a planet removes their need for sustenance for a few centuries.
* OmnicidalManiac: Subverted. They plummet at planets, seemingly planning to end a world via ColonyDrop, but in reality, they just want people to ''think'' they'll hit, diverting at the last moment once they've had their fill of terror and leave the world damaged, but usually able to rebuild.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lucandrian]]
!!Albedo
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/albedo_lucandrian.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Medium

!!Perigean
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/perigean_lucandrian.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

[[folder:Lurker in Light]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lurker_in_light.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (normal), 15 (lightweaver)
->'''Role:''' Combatant (normal), spellcaster (lightweaver)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mementor]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Mementors are fey embodiments of the horrors of memory loss.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ravai]]

->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

Fey associated with the combustion found within stars.
[[/folder]]

!!Vermin
[[folder:Apari]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* BeePeople: The apari queen is the only fertile member of the hive and is responsible for spawning constituents and daughter hives alike.
* HiveCasteSystem: An apari is a gigantic beetle-like creature both home and queen to a swarm of tiny insects, each of which has an extremely specialised role.
* HiveMind: A young apari hive and its 'mother' remain chemically linked, so that if disaster befalls one of them, surviving constituents can potentially join a linked hive and continue to thrive.
* MultipleChoicePast: Aparis have been present on most Pact Worlds prior to the Gap, and there's plenty of in-univese speculation how they could have achieved spaceflight during that time.

[[folder:Crate Fiend]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Medium

Ambush predators from Taekah III that use cast off shells or empty containers to hide in.
----
* AcidAttack: They have a ranged acid attack.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Like real-life hermit crabs, they use any appropriately sized container to hide in and carry it around with them as additional protection. Also like hermit crabs they've adapted to use man-made items as well as the natural ones they originally evolved to take advantage of, using cargo crates and barrels as shells.
* MorePredatorsThanPrey: Averted, they're scavengers by nature and prefer to avid discovery rather than fight, though larger ones will go after live prey.
* RedBaron: Technically they're called taekahbs, but they're almost universally referred to crate fiends.
* TakingYouWithMe: When killed they get to make one last acid blast attack for free against any target in range.

[[folder:Diatha]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diatha.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A common diatha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (normal), 5 (elder)

Diathas are a common species of what are known as “explosive slugs.” Found throughout the galaxy, including on Vesk-2, diathas store energy in chemical chains, rather than in fat deposits, making them highly volatile.

[[folder:Khefak]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3 (normal), 3 (Thasteron)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small (normal), Medium (Thasteron)

Before Drift travel, Khefak Biogenetics engineered a species to consume rubble, scrap, and dust and then biochemically refine what would be waste material back into usable fuel for thasteron engines. With the advent of Drift travel the thasteron market crashed and the khefaks were abandoned. They were expected to die off on their own, but instead they spread and propagated into a common pest species on Akiton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flayer Leech]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flayer_leech.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

A flayer leech is a tiny invertebrate that flenses its prey and uses their hide as a chrysalis to become an doppelganger of them.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Odheo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Obnoxious pests that spread with incredible speed.
----
* ActionBomb: When killed they explode into a shower of gore and slime as one last "fuck you." Said explosion doesn't do damage but does inflict penalties to saves against diseases.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Their rapid breeding cycle makes it incredibly difficult to root out an infestation once they've set in.
* MultipurposeTongue: Their spiked tongues are used to latch onto larger creatures and suck their blood.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Space Vermin]]
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Role:''' Combatant

!!!Asteroid Louse
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Size:''' Small

Asteroid lice are communal creatures that feed on minerals in the stone of their airless habitats.
----

!!!Necropede
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Large

Necropedes were once centipede-like scavengers on Eox; they now have a bite that can digest undead flesh.
----

!!!Warpmoth Swarm
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Fine (swarm)

A warpmoth is like a glowing blue-white speck attracted to moving light, such as other warpmoths or passing starships. Gathering in swarms and following ships helps the moths feed and mate.
----

!!!Planetoid Beetle
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Huge

Territorial creatures that feed on stone for the minerals. Careless quarrying and shipping have accelerated their spread through the galaxy.
----

!!!Comet Wasp Swarm
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Size:''' Diminutive (swarm)

Comet wasps create nests in frozen interstellar bodies. These icy, venomous vespids lay their eggs in living creatures.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stellar Protozoa]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

Stellar protozoans are single-celled organisms larger than some space stations. Mindless and voracious, these creatures move through space draining energy and consuming matter.

* ShoutOut: A shameless reference to the amoeba from Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Synapse Worm]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/synapse_worm_starfinder.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Opportunist ambush predators that put prey into a state of synaptic shock to feed on at its leisure.
----
* AcidAttack: They can douse their enemies in acid as a ranged attack.
* BreathWeapon: They spray a rapidly expanding slime that deals acid damage and dazes whatever touches it.
* ChameleonCamouflage: They're typically the same color as the environment around them, which gives them a bonus to Stealth checks but isn't enough to count as its own ability.
* SandWorm: A very small example and one that really looks like it would be better suited for an aquatic lifestyle, but they burrow into the ground to ambush prey and hey live in any warm environment.
[[/folder]]

!!Plants

[[folder:Cerebric Fungus]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster

->'''Size:''' Medium

Cerebric fungi are carnivorous plants, but they are also intelligent interstellar explorers with colonies in many star systems.

[[folder:Frujai]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (Soldier), 19 (Colony)

->'''Size:''' Large (Soldier), Colossal (Colony)

Sentient fungi from Orikolai, these gravity-manipulating beings are well adapted to surviving in fluctuating climates.

* GravityMaster: From crushing foes to a pulp with gravity waves to levitating themselves, fruhaj colonies are undisputed masters of gravity manipulation.
* MookMaker: A fruhaj colony creates soldiers over the course of weeks, but it pressed they're capable of spawning up to six to defend themselves.

[[folder:Ksarik]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ksarik_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4

->'''Size:''' Large
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* LegoGenetics: Ksariks are capable of assimilating other creatures' genetic codes, temporarily mimicking their prey's adaptations.
* ManEatingPlant: Ksariks are plants specifically adapted to be scavengers.
* SpawnBroodling: Ksariks reproduce by infecting animals with spores that gradually grow into baby ksariks that feed on the host, and then burrow out of the flesh days later.

[[folder:Mi-Go]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Role:''' Expert
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Mi-go are scientists, explorers, inventors, and colonists, as well as eerie servitors of the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones. These creatures come from deep space and view the universe as a canvas to be controlled and mastered. Their population on any one planet varies, but when counted across the entire galaxy, their numbers are mind-numbing in scale.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Moonflower]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (normal), 16 (Titan)

->'''Size:''' Huge (normal), Gargantuan (Titan)

A moonflower is an enormous plant with a bizarre form of telepathy that allows them to communicate with one another.

[[folder:Oracle of Oras]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oracle_of_oras.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

[[folder:Seed Walker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:'''

->'''Size:''' Medium

Mobile plants that can plant explosive seedpods like organic landmines.

[[folder:Void Palm]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Large

Strange trees with the ability to deprive entire areas of gravity and light.

* GravityMaster: They can create patches of zero-gravity and darkness to trap prey.
* ItCanThink: They're smart enough to sweep away debris from the area around them to deprive creatures in their gravity void handholds they could use to get out.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vracinea]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vracinea_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* AlluringAnglerfish: The vracinea catches food by camouflaging itself, leaving only its blossom lures visible to mesmerise prey.
* TheParalyzer: A vracinea constantly exudes a sweet, paralysing odour.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Writher Swarm]]

->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Fine

Fungal filaments that move across the land devouring all organic matter in their path.

* TheAgeless: To a degree. A single spore can lay dormant for several centuries, whether deep underground or on an asteroid.
* LoadBearingBoss: A literal version. Old writher swarms that infect buildings may sometimes eat away support beams and replace them with the long fungal "roots" that thread through the walls. Killing such a swarm destroys these tendrils, causing the structure to collapse soon afterwards.
* SpawnBroodling: A writher swarm can implant infectious particles in the wounds of its prey. Unless the victim is treated before it dies, it becomes host to a new writher swarm, which tears its way out through the creature's skin after it dies.
* TheSwarm: A writher swarm consists of thousands of pale white fungal filaments that infest a building and slowly digests all the organic matter within.

!!Vermin
[[folder:Apari]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7

->'''Size:''' Large

----
* BeePeople: The apari queen is the only fertile member of the hive and is responsible for spawning constituents and daughter hives alike.
* HiveCasteSystem: An apari is a gigantic beetle-like creature both home and queen to a swarm of tiny insects, each of which has an extremely specialised role.
* HiveMind: A young apari hive and its 'mother' remain chemically linked, so that if disaster befalls one of them, surviving constituents can potentially join a linked hive and continue to thrive.
* MultipleChoicePast: Aparis have been present on most Pact Worlds prior to the Gap, and there's plenty of in-univese speculation how they could have achieved spaceflight during that time.

[[folder:Crate Fiend]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Medium

Ambush predators from Taekah III that use cast off shells or empty containers to hide in.

* AcidAttack: They have a ranged acid attack.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Like real-life hermit crabs, they use any appropriately sized container to hide in and carry it around with them as additional protection. Also like hermit crabs they've adapted to use man-made items as well as the natural ones they originally evolved to take advantage of, using cargo crates and barrels as shells.
* MorePredatorsThanPrey: Averted, they're scavengers by nature and prefer to avid discovery rather than fight, though larger ones will go after live prey.
* RedBaron: Technically they're called taekahbs, but they're almost universally referred to crate fiends.
* TakingYouWithMe: When killed they get to make one last acid blast attack for free against any target in range.

[[folder:Diatha]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diatha.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A common diatha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (normal), 5 (elder)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Diathas are a common species of what are known as “explosive slugs.” Found throughout the galaxy, including on Vesk-2, diathas store energy in chemical chains, rather than in fat deposits, making them highly volatile.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Khefak]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3 (normal), 3 (Thasteron)
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small (normal), Medium (Thasteron)

Before Drift travel, Khefak Biogenetics engineered a species to consume rubble, scrap, and dust and then biochemically refine what would be waste material back into usable fuel for thasteron engines. With the advent of Drift travel the thasteron market crashed and the khefaks were abandoned. They were expected to die off on their own, but instead they spread and propagated into a common pest species on Akiton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flayer Leech]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flayer_leech.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

A flayer leech is a tiny invertebrate that flenses its prey and uses their hide as a chrysalis to become an doppelganger of them.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Odheo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Obnoxious pests that spread with incredible speed.
----
* ActionBomb: When killed they explode into a shower of gore and slime as one last "fuck you." Said explosion doesn't do damage but does inflict penalties to saves against diseases.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Their rapid breeding cycle makes it incredibly difficult to root out an infestation once they've set in.
* MultipurposeTongue: Their spiked tongues are used to latch onto larger creatures and suck their blood.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Space Vermin]]
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Role:''' Combatant

!!!Asteroid Louse
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Size:''' Small

Asteroid lice are communal creatures that feed on minerals in the stone of their airless habitats.
----

!!!Necropede
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Size:''' Large

Necropedes were once centipede-like scavengers on Eox; they now have a bite that can digest undead flesh.
----

!!!Warpmoth Swarm
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Size:''' Fine (swarm)

A warpmoth is like a glowing blue-white speck attracted to moving light, such as other warpmoths or passing starships. Gathering in swarms and following ships helps the moths feed and mate.
----

!!!Planetoid Beetle
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Size:''' Huge

Territorial creatures that feed on stone for the minerals. Careless quarrying and shipping have accelerated their spread through the galaxy.
----

!!!Comet Wasp Swarm
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Size:''' Diminutive (swarm)

Comet wasps create nests in frozen interstellar bodies. These icy, venomous vespids lay their eggs in living creatures.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stellar Protozoa]]
->'''Starship Tier:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

Stellar protozoans are single-celled organisms larger than some space stations. Mindless and voracious, these creatures move through space draining energy and consuming matter.

* ShoutOut: A shameless reference to the amoeba from Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Synapse Worm]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/synapse_worm_starfinder.PNG]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Opportunist ambush predators that put prey into a state of synaptic shock to feed on at its leisure.
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* AcidAttack: They can douse their enemies in acid as a ranged attack.
* BreathWeapon: They spray a rapidly expanding slime that deals acid damage and dazes whatever touches it.
* ChameleonCamouflage: They're typically the same color as the environment around them, which gives them a bonus to Stealth checks but isn't enough to count as its own ability.
* SandWorm: A very small example and one that really looks like it would be better suited for an aquatic lifestyle, but they burrow into the ground to ambush prey and hey live in any warm environment.
[[/folder]]

!!Humanoids
[[folder:Trolls]]
!!Troll
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/troll_2.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

!!Void Troll
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/void_troll.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ikeshti Rivener]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' large

Ikeshti who fail to fulfil their reproductive urges and become warped by their hormones into rabid beasts.

[[folder:Iztheptar]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Size:''' Small

An alien species whose hive mind was exploited by the Azlanti Star Empire to make them willing slaves.

* AdaptiveAbility: Whenever they succeed on a save against an environmental hazard, disease, or poison they gain a +2 on saves against it that can stack up to +10. Additionally, if they survive exposure to such an effect for three days they gain outright immune to it. It requires regular exposure though, losing the bonus to saves after 24 hours and immunity after 30 days without exposure to the hazard.
* HealingFactor: A weaker version that functions more like a starfish's regeneration. They regain hit points and recover from poisons and diseases twice as fast as normal. They also regrow any lost body parts whenever they regain full hit points.
* {{Imprinting}}: An infant iztheptar imprints on the first living thing it sees, a fact exploited to ensure their loyalty.
* OrganicTechnology: They have bonuses building and repairing biotech items and can install additional biotech upgrades to armor.
* SlaveRace: Brainwashed into one through their own natural telepathy.

!!Plants

[[folder:Cerebric Fungus]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Cerebric fungi are carnivorous plants, but they are also intelligent interstellar explorers with colonies in many star systems.

[[folder:Frujai]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (Soldier), 19 (Colony)

->'''Size:''' Large (Soldier), Colossal (Colony)

Sentient fungi from Orikolai, these gravity-manipulating beings are well adapted to surviving in fluctuating climates.
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* GravityMaster: From crushing foes to a pulp with gravity waves to levitating themselves, fruhaj colonies are undisputed masters of gravity manipulation.
* MookMaker: A fruhaj colony creates soldiers over the course of weeks, but it pressed they're capable of spawning up to six to defend themselves.

[[folder:Ksarik]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ksarik_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Large
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* LegoGenetics: Ksariks are capable of assimilating other creatures' genetic codes, temporarily mimicking their prey's adaptations.
* ManEatingPlant: Ksariks are plants specifically adapted to be scavengers.
* SpawnBroodling: Ksariks reproduce by infecting animals with spores that gradually grow into baby ksariks that feed on the host, and then burrow out of the flesh days later.

[[folder:Mi-Go]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6

->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Mi-go are scientists, explorers, inventors, and colonists, as well as eerie servitors of the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones. These creatures come from deep space and view the universe as a canvas to be controlled and mastered. Their population on any one planet varies, but when counted across the entire galaxy, their numbers are mind-numbing in scale.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Moonflower]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (normal), 16 (Titan)
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Huge (normal), Gargantuan (Titan)

A moonflower is an enormous plant with a bizarre form of telepathy that allows them to communicate with one another.

[[folder:Oracle of Oras]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oracle_of_oras.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 13
->'''Role:''' Spellcaster
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Seed Walker]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 14
->'''Role:'''

->'''Size:''' Medium

Mobile plants that can plant explosive seedpods like organic landmines.

[[folder:Void Palm]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Role:''' Expert

->'''Size:''' Large

Strange trees with the ability to deprive entire areas of gravity and light.

* GravityMaster: They can create patches of zero-gravity and darkness to trap prey.
* ItCanThink: They're smart enough to sweep away debris from the area around them to deprive creatures in their gravity void handholds they could use to get out.

[[folder:Vracinea]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vracinea_starfinder.jpg]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4

* AlluringAnglerfish: The vracinea catches food by camouflaging itself, leaving only its blossom lures visible to mesmerise prey.
* TheParalyzer: A vracinea constantly exudes a sweet, paralysing odour.

[[folder:Writher Swarm]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9

->'''Size:''' Fine

Fungal filaments that move across the land devouring all organic matter in their path.

* TheAgeless: To a degree. A single spore can lay dormant for several centuries, whether deep underground or on an asteroid.
* LoadBearingBoss: A literal version. Old writher swarms that infect buildings may sometimes eat away support beams and replace them with the long fungal "roots" that thread through the walls. Killing such a swarm destroys these tendrils, causing the structure to collapse soon afterwards.
* SpawnBroodling: A writher swarm can implant infectious particles in the wounds of its prey. Unless the victim is treated before it dies, it becomes host to a new writher swarm, which tears its way out through the creature's skin after it dies.
* TheSwarm: A writher swarm consists of thousands of pale white fungal filaments that infest a building and slowly digests all the organic matter within.

!!Vermin
[[folder:Apari]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7

->'''Size:''' Large

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* BeePeople: The apari queen is the only fertile member of the hive and is responsible for spawning constituents and daughter hives alike.
* HiveCasteSystem: An apari is a gigantic beetle-like creature both home and queen to a swarm of tiny insects, each of which has an extremely specialised role.
* HiveMind: A young apari hive and its 'mother' remain chemically linked, so that if disaster befalls one of them, surviving constituents can potentially join a linked hive and continue to thrive.
* MultipleChoicePast: Aparis have been present on most Pact Worlds prior to the Gap, and there's plenty of in-univese speculation how they could have achieved spaceflight during that time.

[[folder:Crate Fiend]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3

->'''Size:''' Medium

Ambush predators from Taekah III that use cast off shells or empty containers to hide in.
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* AcidAttack: They have a ranged acid attack.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Like real-life hermit crabs, they use any appropriately sized container to hide in and carry it around with them as additional protection. Also like hermit crabs they've adapted to use man-made items as well as the natural ones they originally evolved to take advantage of, using cargo crates and barrels as shells.
* MorePredatorsThanPrey: Averted, they're scavengers by nature and prefer to avid discovery rather than fight, though larger ones will go after live prey.
* RedBaron: Technically they're called taekahbs, but they're almost universally referred to crate fiends.
* TakingYouWithMe: When killed they get to make one last acid blast attack for free against any target in range.

[[folder:Diatha]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diatha.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A common diatha]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (normal), 5 (elder)

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

Diathas are a common species of what are known as “explosive slugs.” Found throughout the galaxy, including on Vesk-2, diathas store energy in chemical chains, rather than in fat deposits, making them highly volatile.

[[folder:Khefak]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/3 (normal), 3 (Thasteron)

->'''Size:''' Small (normal), Medium (Thasteron)

Before Drift travel, Khefak Biogenetics engineered a species to consume rubble, scrap, and dust and then biochemically refine what would be waste material back into usable fuel for thasteron engines. With the advent of Drift travel the thasteron market crashed and the khefaks were abandoned. They were expected to die off on their own, but instead they spread and propagated into a common pest species on Akiton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flayer Leech]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flayer_leech.png]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Role:''' Combatant
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

A flayer leech is a tiny invertebrate that flenses its prey and uses their hide as a chrysalis to become an doppelganger of them.

[[folder:Odheo]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1
->'''Role:''' Combatant

->'''Size:''' Tiny

Obnoxious pests that spread with incredible speed.

* ActionBomb: When killed they explode into a shower of gore and slime as one last "fuck you." Said explosion doesn't do damage but does inflict penalties to saves against diseases.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Their rapid breeding cycle makes it incredibly difficult to root out an infestation once they've set in.
* MultipurposeTongue: Their spiked tongues are used to latch onto larger creatures and suck their blood.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Space Vermin]]
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Role:''' Combatant

!!!Asteroid Louse
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2
->'''Size:''' Small

Asteroid lice are communal creatures that feed on minerals in the stone of their airless habitats.
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