Star Beasts
Entity Number: 4
Entity Type:
Entity Threat: Deleterious
Entity Class: Hostile
Entity Status: Contained
Entity Department: The Department of Creatures and Beasts
Biography:
Entity 4 refers to a collection of mortal-made nyxic beasts that take on “unexplainable” and “incomprehensible” forms. To further explain, Entity 4 instances take on forms that aren’t based in known reality and so our mortal brains “fill in the gaps” with things that seem somewhat familiar to us. Entity 4 instances usually appear as massive boned insectoids that are equipped with multiple arms ending in 4 outstretch claw like fingers, a vague primitive skull with a third carved eye just above the forehead that darts from corner to corner in a similar manner to REM sleep, a set of glowing star-like beetle like wings that are capable of melting the flesh of bone, and a trail of various asteroids constantly following them. In terms of behaviour , Entity 4 instances are usually extremely hostile to all mortal life, especially towards those who are responsible for their creation as well as those who worship The Golden Faith, but they are notably ignore most beast life however the reason for this is unknown. Finally Entity 4 instances are able to “cut out” holes in space that lead to unknown plains of existence, it is unknown currently where these holes lead to but from what our drones have captured the plain is “disturbing”.
Information:
Entity 4 was first brought to our attention when an emergency distress signal was picked up by The Department of Analytics, the signal was from a collective research fleet that had suffered heavy structural and internal damage, the signal said the following; “Harvesting gone wrong, abandon all pursuits, don’t let the flesh melt away from your face when our failure comes to take it”. Additionally a heavily distorted video accompanied the distress signal showing an instance of Entity 4 showing it’s wings and melting the flesh off of multiple engineers and lab assistants.
After the distress signal was silenced and our contacts within The Collective made sure we wouldn’t be disturbed it was decreed that “The Daredevils” would be deployed to investigate and explore the abandoned collective research fleet, in addition the main reason The Daredevils were selected for this mission is because of their heavy resistance to paranormal phenomena, attacks and magics.
The Daredevils started their exploratory mission by docking at the research fleets medical vessel and as soon as they step on the vessel they were greeted by a completely horrific sight, every surface and object within the medical vessel was cover in melted flesh as well as numerous chard skeletons. While exploring the medical vessel, a loud and ear splitting scream was heard coming from the main ship of the fleet, before The Daredevils made their way to the main ship one of them claimed that their flesh “felt strange, as if it kept moving from a liquid to a solid”.
The exploratory mission continues until The Daredevils finally reach the fleet’s main ship known as “The Grand Harvester” by the staff of collective scientists. Here The Daredevils were greeted by the same sight as the medical vessel, but as The Daredevils continued towards the main atrium a Daredevil recommented on the state of his flesh claiming “it’s sticking to my suit”, but the others simply dismissed his claim and blamed it on the tightness of the new suit. Once they made it to the main atrium The Daredevils were faced with a massive glass window that looked towards what can only be described as “a cracked star” , one daredevil compared the sight to a cracked open egg and ponders if that’s where the Entity 4 instances came from, in addition another daredevil managed to find the main terminal and gathered multiple data discs, personal notes and files referring to “The Harvesting Project”. As The Daredevils were sweeping for survivors, the troubled daredevil again begins complaining saying “it hurts so much, but is the pain real?” before violently tearing out his suits helmet and ripping it off to reveal flesh that had melted down to the bone and stuck to the inside of his suit. Despite the leader of The Daredevils trying to calm them down, the troubled daredevil became erratic and began ripping off his suit to reveal more melted flesh, after which the troubled daredevil ran directly towards the window and began shouting, “We are sorry, how could we have been so blind, how could we have possible known the truth if it wasn’t the truth to begin with?”, as he began pounding on the window a massively powerful glow begins emerging towards the window. Finally as the leader of The Daredevils commanded his remaining agents back to their ship he stayed behind to try and save his agent, but all he managed to do was witness the troubled daredevil’s flesh slowly melt as the incomprehensible form of an Entity 4 instances enveloped the large window, the last thing that was heard before the daredevils felt and requested backup was a single gunshot.
Thanks to our collective contacts as well as the date the daredevils recovered from the main terminal computer, we managed to located and quarantine another 4 Harvesting Project research fleets as well as over contain over 35 Entity 4 instances, in addition all data relating to The Harvesting Project was confiscated by our agents and anyone within The Collective that was aware of the project was given standard level brain-wipes.
Containment:
Entity 4’s containment involves the creation of a pocket dimension in which all instances of Entity 4 are placed. The containment itself was difficult as we lost over 10 ships in the process of capture all 38 instances of Entity 4, but a bigger problem presented itself in the form of instance’s ability of cutting holes in space and traveling to as yet unknown plain of existence, in addition the instances of Entity 4 were able to use this ability to re-enter the galaxy and cause multiple containment breaches. While this was a problem for a few years we eventually learned that the instances are seemingly attracted to and feed on stars, so through the use of paranormal tools, some thaumaturgical spells and a heavy amount of solarmancy we were able to create long lasting stars that the instances could feed on, once this was introduced the amount of containment breaches reached nil practically over night. Additionally observation of Entity 4 instances revealed that their cutting hole ability is possible due to a particular organ that is located within their third, but unfortunately a method to surgically remove this organ has as yet to be found.
