Giant Mutant Space Broccoli

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The Giant Mutant Space Broccoli were a legendary spacefaring race of highly intelligent vegetables that were responsible for the destruction of human civilization on the planet Taramayara in the 30th Century. [Worlds Apart Book 07 ]
The only known account of the GMSB is contained in the Fifth Testament, the Holy Book of the Starcross religion. According to the text, the GMSB had a collective intelligence (the Vegetable Hive Mind) that absorbed human lives while leaving their bodies as shambling, empty husks.
==Origin==
During the refit of the Pathfinder Ship Pegasus's Graviton Engines in the Solar Year 7382, a power overload unleashed a burst of gamma radiation. The burst of radiation traveled through a black hole and was sent millions of year back in time, emerging in a proto-stellar nebula. Its passage through the nebula produced an ion storm that sent cosmic rays into the atmosphere of a primitive planet, altering the genes of a native species of broccoli. As a result, the broccoli eventually achieved sentience and became the dominant species of its planet. [Worlds Apart Book 11]
==Destruction of Taramayara==
According to scripture, the human colony of Taramayara was annihilated by Giant Mutant Space Broccoli  and the colonists were absorbed into their vegetable hive consciousness.
First Compendium of Ceres Beta, Chapter 22: And in the end came the giant space broccoli. And they absorbed the colonists in their sleep. The men, the women, and the children, all were absorbed by the space broccoli. And those who did not succumb on the first night were hunted by the human husks of the absorbed, which did walk among them, and upon sighting a survivor did raise their arm and raise a terrible wailing. And thus were all the colonists of Taramayara absorbed by the giant space broccoli. The End.”