Chitauri

A squad of Chitauri

The **Chitauri** are a sentient species of cybernetically enhanced beings operating under a hive mind intelligence from Marvel Comics.

Subservient to Thanos, they were most notable for being the first major threat to Earth that required the formation of the Avengers when they attempted to commence a planetary invasion as part of an alliance between Thanos and Loki.

## Physiology

The Chitauri are a race of grey reptilian humanoids with white eyes that are a hybrid between organic beings and machines while able to shapeshift. They are a cold-blooded, technologically advanced race. They are born as fully organic beings, but their soldiers are cybernetically enhanced at an early age with electronic neural networks and armor fused into their bodies. Infantry are now dependent upon chemical stimulants to enhance their strength and agility and internal reactors to power their cybernetic implants. Their cybernetic augmentations grant them a degree of enhanced strength that makes them agile and strong enough to climb on buildings and Leviathans with relative ease, as well as one being strong enough to temporarily restrain Captain America. They have superior communication with each other via their Hive Mind, and thus are apt at strategy and coordination. Despite their interrelation, they are able to act independently, intelligent enough to engage in combat, assess various situations, and assist each other.

A form of ailment that plagues their race known as, the Chitauri Virus. Due to their half biological and half cybernetic bodies, this "virus" has both biological and cybernetic properties. It interacts with biological tissue, such as affecting nervous tissue and lying dormant in epithelial tissue, but it is transmitted by electrical shocks, such as the static of rubbing against an infected item. In humans, it causes a gradual buildup of electrostatic energy in the brain, eventually releasing a burst of 2,000 megajoules. This massive amount of energy leaves a burn mark on the forehead and just before erupting causes nearby metallic objects to float, caught in the resulting electric field. Additionally, the virus alters the host's molecular density and polarity, resulting in the affected bodies found dead floating in the air.

## Pre-Apocalypse

The Chitauri, no matter what reality are they from, are a race of conquerors under the leadership of Thanos. However, they did came to Earth long ago and started World War II. The Chitauri claimed to be part of "the immune system of the universe," wiping out disorder and free will wherever they find it. They seem to prefer to act behind the scenes, mimicking and influencing the social and military methods of the species they are currently infiltrating. Like they did with the Nazis and providing the technology to make nuclear weapons by an intercontinental ballistic missile. However, that was thwarted by Captain America.

Now, in the psyche multiverse, they seek to conquer all because they see free will as disorder and chaos that should be expunge from life. They did conquer a few worlds by using the same tactics in World War II but more subtle and even get into fights with the Kree.

## Post-Apocalypse

They are still the same even after the apocalypse. Yet there are reports about some of these shapeshifters are working with the United Nations & Creations in order to cause disruption and civil war to the former micronations, fictional nations that aren't official works, whatever they want to have destroyed that they see as a threat.