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Meet the nolnidine ravener. Check it. These guys hurtle through space in a crysalis form known as the nolnidine harbinger. They're big. Like a kilometer long or so. When the harbinger impacts something large enough to stop its momentum (generally a planet or moon, though the occasional space station has fallen victim), it sets down roots and burrows in, injecting the fetal stage of the nolnidine into the core of the planet. After a certain amount of time, the juvenile or ravener form emerges from the core and terrorizes the planet surface, sort of godzilla-style. but everywhere he goes he's secreting these spores, coating everything he doesn't eat with 'em. once done, the ravener retreats back into the core of the planet and dies. as his body decomposes, the chemical breakdown becomes massively unstable, and eventually, the giant creature's corpse detonates, typically blowing the planet or moon apart. the spores on the surface have been maturing into these harbinger/chrysalis forms in the mean time, and they all drift off into space to repeat the process like cosmic dandelion fluff.