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First appearance- Doom 2 Classic (1994)

Spider Masterminds are pretty great on their own, but what if they were smaller? Well, you get the Arachnotrons, smaller, faster, and more savage clones of Spider Masterminds. The Arachnotrons were created by the High Tech Mages of the snowy Aasimar Realm, these Mages pitched to the Hierarchy that they could make smaller, cheaper Spider Masterminds, with their psychic powers and everything, the Hierarchy was intrigued with this idea, so they gave the Aasimar Tech Mages up to 5 years to fully perfect their little project, and so, they got to work.

A lot of things went wrong during this project, for one thing, apparently it's not possible to give psychic powers to the clones, as every time they tried to do so, the clones just explode, so the Mages just gave up on the whole magic thing and instead went for the full science route, focusing more on the cybernetic aspects. This whole project only lasted 5 months, and the Arachnotrons were basically done, and they were off to show the Hierarchy their creations, but the Tech Mages remembered one thing, they promised them that they would have psychic powers, but they don't, they feared for their lives, they thought they were going to see a new side of Hell and feel new types of pain, but surprisingly the Hierarchy was quite happy with the Arachnotrons as the way they were, the Mages breathed a sigh of relief that day, for their lives were spared...

Arachnotrons differ quite a bit from the Spider Masterminds, as their smaller frames, additional limbs and eyes, and their signature weapon, the Plasma Stinger, these stingers fire bursts of blue plasma in quick succession, the plasma grinds up and melts the armor and flesh of their foes, they can also activate an alternate firemode that overheats the blue plasma and turns it into a super-heated red plasma that does even more damage. Continued fire during this mode will result in the stinger being temporarily disabled to cool off, their stingers can also be targeted and destroyed with gunfire, leaving them with only their sharp fangs to defend themselves.

To this day, all Arachnotrons are created in the Aasimar Realm inside mega factories, in which their limbless bodies are birthed from the Flesh Pits, and their robotic parts are grafted on them as they go down a conveyor belt, once the creation process is complete, the Arachnotrons will then scuttle through a portal that leads to one of the Hierarchy's main Military Bases.

Description
First appearance- Doom 2 Classic (1994)

Spider Masterminds are pretty great on their own, but what if they were smaller? Well, you get the Arachnotrons, smaller, faster, and more savage clones of Spider Masterminds. The Arachnotrons were created by the High Tech Mages of the snowy Aasimar Realm, these Mages pitched to the Hierarchy that they could make smaller, cheaper Spider Masterminds, with their psychic powers and everything, the Hierarchy was intrigued with this idea, so they gave the Aasimar Tech Mages up to 5 years to fully perfect their little project, and so, they got to work.

A lot of things went wrong during this project, for one thing, apparently it's not possible to give psychic powers to the clones, as every time they tried to do so, the clones just explode, so the Mages just gave up on the whole magic thing and instead went for the full science route, focusing more on the cybernetic aspects. This whole project only lasted 5 months, and the Arachnotrons were basically done, and they were off to show the Hierarchy their creations, but the Tech Mages remembered one thing, they promised them that they would have psychic powers, but they don't, they feared for their lives, they thought they were going to see a new side of Hell and feel new types of pain, but surprisingly the Hierarchy was quite happy with the Arachnotrons as the way they were, the Mages breathed a sigh of relief that day, for their lives were spared...

Arachnotrons differ quite a bit from the Spider Masterminds, as their smaller frames, additional limbs and eyes, and their signature weapon, the Plasma Stinger, these stingers fire bursts of blue plasma in quick succession, the plasma grinds up and melts the armor and flesh of their foes, they can also activate an alternate firemode that overheats the blue plasma and turns it into a super-heated red plasma that does even more damage. Continued fire during this mode will result in the stinger being temporarily disabled to cool off, their stingers can also be targeted and destroyed with gunfire, leaving them with only their sharp fangs to defend themselves.

To this day, all Arachnotrons are created in the Aasimar Realm inside mega factories, in which their limbless bodies are birthed from the Flesh Pits, and their robotic parts are grafted on them as they go down a conveyor belt, once the creation process is complete, the Arachnotrons will then scuttle through a portal that leads to one of the Hierarchy's main Military Bases.