Assimilator

Unlike Changelings, Assimilators possess the ability to instantly absorb, integrate and reproduce organic living material. Best described as a sort of colonial organism, any single part down to the single cell is a potentially autonomous creature, but are capable of acting together as one complex multicellular creature. Its ability to, as the name implies, assimilate living creatures by mere physical contact alone makes it inimicable to biological life of all forms, but this is only the simplest of its dangers. Assimilators can manufacture all manners of chemicals, tool and weapons from their own biological matter, grow appendages and limbs and otherwise change shape as needed. Furthermore, Assimilators have no crippling weakpoints; vital organs can be regrown and replaced as quickly as they are destroyed, and tissue damage is no less superficial. This ability to reconstitute itself following immense damage ultimately means that Assimilators are simply invulnerable to or otherwise minimally affected by most conventional forms of attack. Most terrifying of all, however, is not an Assimiliator's combat ability, but its ability to absorb and accumulate the knowledge and memories of creatures it consumes, even advanced technical knowledge and specific memories. Combined with its nearly flawless shapeshifting ability, it is almost impossible to distinguish a disguised Assimilator that wishes to remain hidden, and it is possible for the Assimilator to furthermore separate masses of itself that will be entirely capable of acting independently while retaining all of the accumulated knowledge of the creature that spawned it.
The origin of Assimilators is unclear. The only actually known Assimilator, Penn Isiah, actually appeared to be a reconstituted component of a Superfort defeated several months prior to its encounter under the guise of the Pilot William Augustus Ernhiem IV at the ARHK headquarters. Given what is understood about the functions and capabilities of biological Suits, it is not certain how Isaiah came to be, and his subsequent escape from the towers and into the world at large is probably not a good thing. The Engineers' Kappa Facility was also brought to ruin by the actions of an individual with Assimilator-like abilities, though their existence and eventual escape from the facility was never discovered.
Runoff are considered a type of quasi-Assimilator, albeit an accidentally-created one considered nothing more than pests in areas where they crop up. Lacking a unified central nervous system, they are also much less dangerous than a "true" Assimilator and only ever possess a less-than-animalistic intelligence. 
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