Aparoid

Aparoids are a race of insect-like creatures that are part-machine, part-life form. From minor enemy units, to major bosses, they serve as the main antagonists in Star Fox: Assault.
== Appearance ==
The Aparoids are mainly insect-like cybernetic creatures that come in an immense variety of enemy infantry, artillery and leading force commanders, all of which are connected together by a hive mind ruled by the Aparoid Queen mother. 
=== Society and Culture ===
The Aparoid race live, fight, and reproduce in similar manners to ant or bee colonies. There are foot soldiers on the ground and in the air like ants. The Aparoid queen is very similar to the enormous queens of both species as they are the source of reproduction and are found in tunnel like dwellings. The Aparoid homeworld's decor and technologies are built in honeycombed or hexagon shaped patterns which bees are often associated with. They are drawn to large energy sources, like bees to nectar, seeking out lifeforms and technology to assimilate and add to their own ranks and territory. It's implied the root cause for their assimilation culture is because, due to them essentially lacking souls of their own, they need to steal others in order to bypass evolution.
=== Abilities ===
They have the ability to control other technology and lifeforms in a viral manner called Aparoidedation and are thus extremely lethal to anything that gets in their way. It takes the destruction called "apoptosis" by Beltino Toad, of the controlling queen for the entire race to be completely eradicated. The Aparoids were also capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and climate environments, particularly severe blizzards. This was especially evident by there being active on Fichina after Pigma deactivated the climate control center, which prevented blizzards that otherwise rendered the planet uninhabitable. Aparoids can also survive in the vacuum of space, allowing their vast numbers to virtually overwhelm any enemy fleets.
== Trivia ==
* The Aparoids were pretty much Borg ripoffs according to TheIkranRider, as she saw Star Trek: First Contact a few weeks before she encountered Assault. Nevertheless, both they and the game scarred her for life and the Aparoids had been a hateable character ever since.
== Gallery ==
File:Aparoid normal scene.webp|Promotional art with Aparoid
File:SFA Aparoid Homeworld.webp|Aparoid homeworld
File:Aparoidhatcher.webp|Aparoid hatcher
File:Aparoid Crawler.webp|Evolved aparoid crawler
File:Aparoid Moth.webp|Aparoid moth
File:Pigma aparoid.webp|Pigma aparoid
File:Pigma infected by aparoids.webp
File:Aparoid Queen.webp|Aparoid queen
File:Aparoids Infected Pepper.webp|Aparoid infects Pepper
File:Great Fox Aparo.webp|Great Fox infected by Aparoids
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