Poly terminus

## General Summary of the Poly Terminus species + random facts

These creatures have been nicknamed "death ants" by the explorer "Grarl Natalion Steedswynn" an adventurer with a heavy love for all things medival,magic, and mystery. he has recorded death ants as "yet another small plague thrown upon me in this unknown land by the ever-angry gods!". he had shown large agitation towards these things because of their prickly spikey bites and stings. these creatures are some of the least dangerous things for any one man to encounter in the void yet the annoyance and pain being constant on even the smallest scales has led any who got through the null to increased anxiety,agitation, and sometimes insanity.

Habitat
they typically live in nests in softer grounds if around the farther away plains but if found near the inner chasms are much more commonly found to make their nests inside of the Gaia Oculus.

Size and physical description
poly terminus is heavily similar to a normal ant you could find anywhere and are believed to even be a descendant of normal ants but being corrupted and also evolved to fit into their new environment. the difference in these "death ants" and any normal ant is that they are larger and covered in hard spikes that can easily puncture the skin. they are all generally the same color that is basically a dark purple very close to being black. they also have multiple variations and different jobs based on look. the workers like diggers, and builders are typically what i just described and sometimes have extra spikes in the right places for the right job or have the hard spikes curved in certain ways. the defender and attacker drones however are a different story. these often have large purple to pink wings and slightly more segmented thinner bodies. they can often resemble hornets as they have a tail with a large stinger spike, but also tend to have a small set of arm like apendages purely for having smaller spikes for more ways to protect the hive and claw at the foe. however being bigger than a normal ant, these are still the smallest creatures in the void. Adult carpenter ants can measure from **1/4 to 3/4 inches**in length, and yet the "death ants" are typically from **1 and 3/4 to 3 inches** in length on average. most variations are around the same overall size despite their small physical differences.

Random other facts
poly terminus is a species that does not rely on a queen and instead tries to rule themselves on their own and are highly defensive and untrusting because of it.
they do not make any substances of their own and instead just try to dig,move, and shape whatever materials are around them. making nests in gaia oculus can be very easy for them but making nests out of the rocky ground may often take them a while.
the protectors and attackers or sometimes called "swarmers" are mostly females who have their segments at their back where their stinger is swell up and perpetually get more gross and light pink as they are in the various stages of incubating a child and also because of storing food up for it. the stingers and sometimes other spikes aswell often fall off and they rather stay inside the hive as they grow older or when they get all swelled up.
children are kept as very small larva inside of the parent until they are almost ready for metamorphosis where they turn out as a much much smaller unspiked poly terminus that grows exceptionally fast into their full size if fed.
they often feed on literally any kind of plant or berry as you would expect and are highly intelligent. although not having any immunities of any sort they often have strategies to get past many plants defense mechanisms with as few casualties as possible.

congrats you just wasted your life -pan