Seediron Breeder

large creature making use of Aetherium to float. It constantly grows many larvae of its species inside its body, even growing multiple at the same time. When these are grown, the breeder spits it out. Most of the larvae die, but rarely, some might grow into their fully adult form, another breeder.

The larvae attack almost any animal, or even Suons, for food in attempts to grow larger.

The abdomen of a seediron breeder resembles an amoeba and takes up most of the volume of the body. The creature also has a number of long tentacles, usually used to pick up or kill nearby prey. A large amount of the bodies energy intake is used in the reproductive system. It will typically give birth to larvae every day or possibly in even shorter intervals. As such, the breeder can require a lot of food just to survive. Breeders would typically eat about 1 sixth of their body mass every day but larvae often require more for rapid growth.

During the very early (pre-industrial) Unification War, many nations have managed to tame them. Seediron breeders have been a subject of relative fascination for the suon species, who normally do not pay much attention to wildlife unless it directly impacts themselves (such as when using them as mounts for wars or when a suon is being chased by them). In war, they could be made into large flying vehicles, especially when armour plated. Many gunners can ride on the breeder and fire at nearby enemies, and there would be few counters outside of other megafauna and massive crossbows. Due to the amount of armour on their head, not even a Heavy Tension Quadrepetal Crossbow will penetrate it fully and reach the brain. Another key weapon of this creature is the fact they partially evolved to eat suons.

A breeder is designed to grow a large amount of larva in parallel. With hundreds of very small wombs, each capable of growing several larvae inside them each, they are all connected to the mouth via a long birth canal which pushes fully grown larvae out of the body rapidly and using peristalsis. This is required so that the newborn larva can breathe. Its stomach is quite large because of the large size of the creature.