Bestiary

Things you might encounter out there. Some are pirates. Some are worse. Some were here before the Sector had a name. Zones indicate where the creature reliably appears; a swarm tag means numbers, not size.

18 entries · common 7 · uncommon 5 · rare 4 · legendary 2

Derelict Husk

Derelict Husk

common
S1S2 passive

A burnt-out hulk venting atmosphere. Looks abandoned, but turret servos may still be ticking over.

HP 50 ARM 5 DMG 8 SPD 0

“Cold metal turning slowly in starlight, beacons long since dead.”

Hull Scrappers

Hull Scrappers

common
S1S2 scavenger appears ×2–3

Cutting-torch crews who pick over wrecks. Will fight only if cornered or outnumbering.

HP 30 SHD 5 ARM 1 DMG 7 SPD 3

“Sparks rain from a derelict as their cutters chew through bulkheads.”

Asteroid Hamsters

Asteroid Hamsters

common
S2S3S4 swarm swarm ×30

Vacuum-adapted rodents the size of housecats. Mostly harmless, infinitely annoying.

HP 10 DMG 2 SPD 5

“Chittering noises from the cargo hold. Something is in the grain stores.”

Scavenger Pirates

Scavenger Pirates

common
S2S3 ambush appears ×2–3

Patchwork raiders flying junker craft. Strike from sensor shadows, run when bloodied.

HP 40 SHD 10 ARM 2 DMG 10 SPD 4

“Three signatures peel out from the asteroid field with weapons hot.”

Spacefarer Beetles

Spacefarer Beetles

common
S2S3 swarm swarm ×20

Carapaced swarmers that nest in asteroid clusters. Small individually, devastating en masse.

HP 15 ARM 1 DMG 5 SPD 6

“A glittering cloud detaches from the rock and starts skittering toward you.”

Alien Crystal Shards

Alien Crystal Shards

common
S3S4 passive

Drifting lattice fragments of unknown origin. Inert, but lethal at intercept velocities.

HP 5 DMG 12 SPD 3

“A field of glittering needles drifts across your vector.”

Space Barbarians

Space Barbarians

common
S3S4 aggressive appears ×2–4

Warband flotillas painted with kill marks. Ram, board, take everything that breathes.

HP 60 SHD 15 ARM 4 DMG 15 SPD 5

“Drums hammer over their broadcast band. They want you to hear it.”

Sublight Pilgrim

Sublight Pilgrim

uncommon
S2S3 passive

Generation ships from vanished civilizations, drifting on ballistic trajectories for millennia. Non-hostile.

HP 30 SPD 2

“Your sensors find a hull that has been drifting for a thousand years.”

Claim Jumpers

Claim Jumpers

uncommon
S3S4 scavenger appears ×1–2

Squatters who muscle in on active extraction sites. Will leave if outgunned.

HP 40 SHD 10 ARM 3 DMG 10 SPD 4

“Their MULEs are stripping ore from claims that aren't theirs.”

Minar

Minar

uncommon
S3S4 ambush appears ×3–5

Pack predators with bioluminescent lure spines. Coordinated, intelligent, hungry.

HP 50 SHD 5 ARM 4 DMG 14 SPD 6

“Soft blue lights drift in the dark. Then they accelerate.”

Silicate Swarm

Silicate Swarm

uncommon
S3 swarm swarm ×15

Crystalline collective intelligence. Fragments hunt in lockstep, share senses.

HP 20 SHD 5 ARM 6 DMG 8 SPD 4

“Fifteen geometric forms pivot in unison toward you. They are thinking.”

Void Serpent

Void Serpent

uncommon
S3S4 ambush

Coiling vacuum predator with mineral-scaled hide. Strikes from behind asteroid fields.

HP 80 ARM 8 DMG 22 SPD 7

“A long shadow uncoils from the rocks and turns toward you.”

Cosmic Worm

Cosmic Worm

rare
S3S4 territorial

Gargantuan tunneling beast that surfaces from regolith to swallow ships whole.

HP 120 ARM 12 DMG 30 SPD 3

“The crust ripples, then erupts. Something the size of a cruiser breaches.”

Cyborg Zombies

Cyborg Zombies

rare
S3S4 plague swarm ×5

Repurposed crews -- flesh fused to weaponry, minds replaced by hunger and a directive.

HP 60 ARM 6 DMG 18 SPD 3

“Five derelict-class hulls power up at once. There should be no one aboard.”

Vacuum Slug

Vacuum Slug

rare
S3 territorial

Ponderous mucus-trailing leviathan. Slow but armored like a small moon.

HP 150 ARM 15 DMG 18 SPD 1

“Something glistens across the moon surface, leaving a frozen trail kilometers wide.”

Warrior Aliens

Warrior Aliens

rare
S3S4 aggressive appears ×3

Disciplined xeno warbands in living-metal hulls. Engage with terrifying precision.

HP 180 SHD 60 ARM 14 DMG 35 SPD 7

“Their formation is geometric, perfect, and inhuman.”

Plasma Leviathan

Plasma Leviathan

legendary
S4 territorial

Living storm in vaguely cetacean form. Older than the Sector, hungrier than the void.

HP 400 SHD 100 ARM 25 DMG 55 SPD 5

“The starlight bends. Something the size of a dreadnought is uncoiling from the dark.”

Quantum Wraith

Quantum Wraith

legendary
S4 phasing

Half-resonant entity that flickers between states. Weapons pass through it as often as not.

HP 200 SHD 50 DMG 40 SPD 9

“Sensors lose lock and find it again three kilometers off. Then again, on the other side.”


Rolls happen per hop during navigation and on mining operations; cloak reduces encounter chance. Loot tables map to material codes defined in the game's materials catalog.