From the Stars Without Number Compatible – Alien Database
Gaseous Acid. A khelazite can release a complex compound of acidic gas in a 20-foot radius that can react with water and causes the fluid to quickly evaporate. Organic compounds that contain water are dry unless efficiently sealed. If the acid is inhaled it immediately reacts with the lungs and the target must make
a Physical/Con save or suffer 1 point of Constitution system strain for the subsequent 10 rounds.
Resistance to Heat. The khelazite can tolerate temperatures of up to 3,000 degrees, however lasers causes max damage and destroys the specimen.
COMBAT & TACTICS
Khelazites seems to not display any elaborate tactic of combat behavior except for a basic form of defense for self-preservation and protection of the colony.
DESCRIPTION
The khelazite is a spheroid bulb that varies in size from 30 centimeters up to 1 meter, covered by numerous small plates of quartz crystals whose colors range from black, deep blue, and dark grey. The khelazite produces a faint glow, and a colony of these creatures can produce enough light to illuminate their cave. A
colony is formed by dozens, sometimes hundreds, of specimens, depending on the size of the subterranean complex.
HABITAT
Khelazites thrive in cold subterranean complexes, with an atmospheric composition of nitrogen and oxygen, and can tolerate different degrees of atmosphere densities. The caves they dwell in are deprived of water and moisture, due to the khelazite’s acidic emissions, also causing the formation of a bed of salts and crystals covering the floor of the cave.
BIOLOGY
The biology of the khelazite is simple, their skin is made of quartz compounds, whilst the interior is made of a porous rocky material that allows the metabolic fluid to flow all over the main body. The fluids are much like human hemoglobin, but they lack the complexity of human blood. Xenobiologists and medics have managed to employ these fluids as a temporal substitute for standard blood, with successful experiments in regenerative techniques. If properly treated, the khelazite blood can dramatically increase regeneration rate, with some cases where limb reattachment is possible. Some xenobiologists, claim that the khelazite are not simple plantlike creatures, but instead, they can establish a sort of intelligent communication if stimulated, due to the fact they seem to possess a sort of collective consciousness. During the experiment led by these fringe scientists, they managed to read the faint glow produced by a colony of khelazite, to the point of identifying a pattern as complex as Morse’s code. The khelazites can indeed establish a primitive form of communication, acting as an intelligent beings with Intelligence 4/5. In addition, to suffragette this scientific claim, many medical cases where patients have been treated with the khelazite’s blood, have started manifesting sporadic but intense states of trance where they claimed to be in contact with a being they had never seen or met before. A khelazite bulb is vulnerable to ultraviolet light, and when exposed to such radiation it enters a sort of dormant state, where it is unable to emit
dangerous acidic gases and the faint glowing becomes even fainter. A khelazite reproduces by mitosis, a process that takes around one standard month at optimal environmental conditions, and up to three months in unfavorable conditions. Each specimen of a colony is also connected by a rootlike organ, which is used by the creature to establish a connection with the whole colony and can extend beyond the boundaries of the cave, to reach a new terrain where a new colony can sprout.