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"Okay ladies and gentlemen, gather around. Pay attention to the holomonitor.
Officially, this gruesome monstrosity is known as Species 1558. But most of us in the field just call them 'manmockers.'
Point of origin: Unknown, but somewhere from the Orion Expanse.
They average about two to two point five meters in height, appear to biomechanical in nature: a blend of organic and mechanical. Note that that is DIFFERENT from cybernetic. This is a blend where our science can't tell where the organic ends and the machine begins.
They are sentient, but not highly intelligent. You're talking an average I.Q. of the mid-70s to low 90s at best, thank God.
They are strong enough to easily rip an armored trooper in half, carry what appear to be ancient giant sonic vibration blades and pulsed microwave laser rifles that are more powerful than you'd think. And you pretty much have to blast them to pieces to kill them, or they will crawl away to regenerate.
Now, here's the gruesome part. Their entire purpose appears to be to collect human skin. They flay human captives, generally while they're still alive, and secure their skin to their own hides. Eventually the skin rots, gets torn off in battle or whatever, and they have to go get more.
Why? Nobody knows. Could be trophy hunting, but it appears to obsessive for that. Religious in nature? Possibly. Some biological need? Could be that the organic part gets something out of it that we haven't figured out yet. The boys at Alexandria have scratched their heads over that one for a decade.
What's really mystifying is that humans are the ONLY skins they collect. No other alien species...and they've been allegedly sighted by older races for the last 10,000 years at least in this sector....skins and all.
There's a 1,000,000 credit bonus being offered up by intel for the first person that figures out the burning question.....where the frag were they getting HUMAN skin in deep space 8,000 years before the birth of Christ?"

Description
"Okay ladies and gentlemen, gather around. Pay attention to the holomonitor.
Officially, this gruesome monstrosity is known as Species 1558. But most of us in the field just call them 'manmockers.'
Point of origin: Unknown, but somewhere from the Orion Expanse.
They average about two to two point five meters in height, appear to biomechanical in nature: a blend of organic and mechanical. Note that that is DIFFERENT from cybernetic. This is a blend where our science can't tell where the organic ends and the machine begins.
They are sentient, but not highly intelligent. You're talking an average I.Q. of the mid-70s to low 90s at best, thank God.
They are strong enough to easily rip an armored trooper in half, carry what appear to be ancient giant sonic vibration blades and pulsed microwave laser rifles that are more powerful than you'd think. And you pretty much have to blast them to pieces to kill them, or they will crawl away to regenerate.
Now, here's the gruesome part. Their entire purpose appears to be to collect human skin. They flay human captives, generally while they're still alive, and secure their skin to their own hides. Eventually the skin rots, gets torn off in battle or whatever, and they have to go get more.
Why? Nobody knows. Could be trophy hunting, but it appears to obsessive for that. Religious in nature? Possibly. Some biological need? Could be that the organic part gets something out of it that we haven't figured out yet. The boys at Alexandria have scratched their heads over that one for a decade.
What's really mystifying is that humans are the ONLY skins they collect. No other alien species...and they've been allegedly sighted by older races for the last 10,000 years at least in this sector....skins and all.
There's a 1,000,000 credit bonus being offered up by intel for the first person that figures out the burning question.....where the frag were they getting HUMAN skin in deep space 8,000 years before the birth of Christ?"