The Viron

The Viron are an insect-like semi-symbiotical Hive-minded race believed to have sprouted in planet Cortalia. They have purple skin and six limbs, two pair of crown-like horns, spikes on their backs and two pairs of fangs (one on their mouth and one on the tip of their abdomen).

The Viron may have two life cycles, one of which is symbiotical (thus the semi-symbiotical denomination).

Non-symbiotical life cycle

• Egg stage (about three or four days)
  
• Viron hatchling: small serpentine body with two talons for movement and one mouth for feeding. After they hatch, they wander by themselves to hunt and find a suitable pupating site.
• After about a week and a half, a swarmer (four-limbed viron with a long tail and a single spike on the top of its backbone) is born.
  
• Swarmers then start to look for others and create a Hive.
  
• After enough feeding, they grow into a "pure" Viron individual.
  

Symbiotical life cycle

• No eggs. The Viron Spore can be seeded by any Viron individual or vessel and, as it's microscopical and does not cause harm to the vessel, it often goes undetected. 
  
• When they find a suitable place to start growing (any sort of living being), they settle as a larva in the brain of their host. Only one larva is able to grow per host.
  
• There are few collateral effects for the host while having a Viron larva in their brains. They feed more often, with an increase of about 15 percent. Their five senses are also increased.
  
• As the larva matures and keeps contact with the host's brain, it starts to be able to communicate with him. If the individual is not sentient, it feels a natural peace and adoration to any viron it meets, especiall the queen and the Hive as it starts to become part of the Hive-mind. If the individual is sentient, it realises there's something going on inside him. He is aware that he shares his body with another being and, as the non sentient beings, they become part of the Hive-mind.
  
• If the host tries to remove the larva from its brain, he will eventually die, as the larva attaches itself to many vital parts of the brain.
  
• This process is called Symbiotic Assimilation.