Grell

Grell are a Species of Aberration that first appeared in The Autistic Hero 3: In Search of Giants. They are from the Oort Cloud and are known for their intelligence and their diet of either meat or space rocks located in the Oort Cloud. Grell seem to have a crazed need to eat, reproduce, and repeat. Grell are equipped with the tools needed to not only catch and eat Small rocks in space but also to catch and devour astronauts who drift too far into space from their ships and stations. An Anomaly of Grell were discovered in the Edge of the Oort Cloud when Xenith is searching for the Primordial Anger's current location. They tried to intimidate Xenith into leaving their territory but Xenith ignored them which hurt the Ego of such beasts but they left him alone.

## Biology

The wrinkled hide of a Grell varied from a pink-gray to a faint purple-pink in coloration which, combined with its damp skin covered in ice from it's meals that gleamed wetly in dim light, makes it seem like they are just a strange discolored rock in space. This skin texturing was actually surprisingly leathery and tough; measuring 12 inches thick on the upper body of a Grell. The only other Visible features of a Grell were its 20 strong, rubbery tentacles and its hard Black Colored Eagle Beak. The tentacles were each 10 meters long when fully grown and made up of hundreds of rounded spine-shaped muscles sheathed in an almost fibrous hide much thinner than the epidermis of the creature's brain-like head. Each individual tentacle was capable of regeneration at the cost of energy usage, and the skin on each featured sharp, serrated barbs every 8 inches all the way down to almost the very tip. These barbs were hollow, allowing the Grell to inject a Neurotoxin into its prey, but could also be partially retracted like the teeth of a Komodo dragon to allow the Grell to manipulate objects like buttons on space craft doors. The barbs were made of a bony substance that bore more of a resemblance to the calcified shells that some Snails secreted than true bone, as it lacks marrow or blood vessels due to it's spatial nature. The beak of a grell was made of the same substance but with a higher concentration. Grell internal anatomy was perhaps equally unusual and Out there. The creature maintained its internal structure via a soft and flexible cartilage Maze-work; a Grell could compress its body to roughly half of its original height or width with ease, thus allowing it to easily squeeze through surprisingly small spaces like an octopus. However, they didn't like to do so if they could avoid it as enough pressure could snap the beak. The brain of a Grell was located near the front of the body, above the beak, and was a rumpled membrane that called to mind a crumpled piece of paper yer this brain is highly intelligent. At the top anterior portion of a Grell's body, above the brain, was a tangled mass of ganglia that acted as the center of An electroreceptive sense that allowed the eyeless creatures to detect their environment for asteroids and other prey. Behind the brain, at the top center, were a Grell's lungs, but a Grell's vascular system lacked a heart. Instead it used ten powerful vascular chambers at the base of each tentacle that constricted and retracted together to circulate the aberration's green, copper-based blood flow. A Grell's stomach was located near the Center of the body, with the digestive tract filling the posterior third of the body. Grell fed on either flesh and bone or Meteoroids they catch with their tendrils. A Grell reproduces by a small opening at it's underneath between where the tentacles come out. it's here that female specimens excrete an egg which is laid on a 50 meter asteroid and watched by the parents heavily. An Adult grell weighs 500 pounds when in earth's gravity and it's lungs show it's purpose, as floatation sacs. These sacs are activated when it enters an atmosphere with a gravity field. It will expand this like a hot air balloon and levitate.

## Abilities

Beak: Their beak is tough enough to eat into space debris and also pry open metal hatches on space stations.

Floatation Sac: The Grell use a Floatation sac to float in a gravity rich environment.

Electroreception: The Grell use Electroreception to make an almost Radar sense in it's brain showing it the surroundings and to distinguish prey from regular space debris.

Neurotoxic Needle: The Grell's Tendrils have a Neurotoxin which shuts down the body so they can drag their prey away. It takes less than a minute for the prey to be immobilized.

## Trivia

Grell are thought to be the Main food source for The Dreadnoughts.