Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26084195-20160327063302

Since everyone else is doing one of these.

1. The Scourge is thought to be from another Galaxy.

2. Scourge are placed into the brains of their victims as larvae, and they grow into their host along the nervous system.

3. The process of being taken over by a Scourge takes several months and is extremely painful.

4. The consciousness of the victim survives beneath the Scourge parasite, but it is unable to do anything.

5. The Scourge increase the lifespan of their host by a few centuries.

6. The Scourge will actually die slightly before the host.

7. When the Scourge dies, the host has become utterly mad, driven insane by its centuries long torture.

8. As Scourge age, their movements become increasingly jerky and erratic, their eyes become bloodshot, they sweat profusely, and they drink any liquids they can (even the blood of their enemies).

9. Furthermore, while they loose accuracy, this aging allows them to become even more vicious and skilled in close quarters, such as when in buildings.

10. The Scourge breed many creatures to act as hosts.

11. Not only do they have special breeding chambers, but they also perform genetic experiments to create new, even more horrifying monsters.

12. If a Scourge is not implanted into a host body as a larva, it grows into a full Scourge, which resembles a large black jellyfish.

13. This adult form cannot move outside of a liquid in gravity above 0.5g.

14. If they become an adult without being implanted, they are placed in a Scourge vehicle and permanently attached to it.

15. This gives their vehicle's movements a chillingly organic movement pattern. Essentially, they become the tank.

16. Their method of communication is unknown. It is believed to be telepathic, as both pure Scourge and parasite Scourge seem to be incapable of speech.

17. Parasite Scourge are impotent, hence the need for breeding vats.

18. The social and command chains of the Scourge are entirely unknown. All hypotheses on how the Scourge choose their leaders and other positions are quickly shattered by new revelations.

19. It is hypothesized that the Scourge didn't originally evolve to be parasitic, and that that trait only developed in the past 10,000 years or so.

20. The Scourge seem to enjoy instilling fear in their enemies, and many of their weapons are designed for this purpose.

21. Their rifles burn men from inside out with blue fire.

22.They have tanks armed with hoses that spew an acidic jelly into buildings, which then turns into an asphyxiating gas.

23. One of their most potent terror weapons is the Razorworm, a Scourge-possessed, chitin armoured beast with millions of razor sharp claws and teeth which lurk in the shadows of buildings.

24. They have a unit called a Screamer, which is a device with an extremely strange ability to drive fear deep into the heart of any living thing through unknown methods.

25. They cannot seem to understand the speech of others, or even what basic communication attempts mean.

26. Though most Scourge commanders are pure Scourge, some of the more well known ones are parasites.

27. Perhaps the most well known is Cavebreaker, as he is the most feared of all Scourge commanders. He rides into battle in a personally modified flight-capable artillery piece called an Annihilator.

28. They are known asto have conquered at least six different spieces over their many years, almost certainly more.

29. When they first entered the Milky Way, their primary host was some form of lizard-man spieces.

30. Their first action in the Milky Way was to enslave the Human race.

31. They have a strong affinity for anti-gravity technology. Almost all of their ground units are capable of surface-skimming, and most never even touch the ground.

32. Most of their weaponry is plasma-based, and works by firing a solid projectile surrounded by a field of white hot plasma. This renders enemy countermeasures ineffective.

33. As such, their weaponry is extremely devastating and very hard to defend against, but is substantially shorter ranged than most.

34. Furthermore, their anti-grav abilities make their vessels amazingly fast, but rather lacking in the armour department.

35. In summary, they deal major hurt, and can run circles around enemy tanks, but they are definite glass cannons.

36. They are also known as "The Great Parasite".

37. As far as anyone can tell, they have no such thing as "culture" or "tradition".

38. As such, anything resembling honor or ethics is entirely lost on them. They fight dirty.

39. They employ advanced systems known as "missile halos", which are a series of advanced countermeasure systems designed to defend against crap like orbital bombardment or long ranged missile strikes.

40. A significant amount of the resources of the conquered worlds are put toward preparations to conquer a new species.

41. Their starships often field cloaking systems, due to the fact that they don't have the advantages of cover and dodging that ground units have.

42. They seem to take some kind of perverse pleasure from stripping a world of all of its natural beauty and resources. They suck planets dry like vampires, and have ruined many beautiful vistas that way.

43. A starship was found long before the Scourge arrived in the Milky Way. It was destroyed beyond repair, but a log found on the vessel described some kind of mass exodus as their people fled from an unstoppable evil. This is believed to be the Scourge.

44. They have been known to leave a surviving resistance on certain worlds to lure rescue teams into traps.

45. There is a rumor that the Scourge once anonymously told one of their targets that they would attack in one year. This resulted in a minor civil war between those who wanted to stay and those who wouldn't let them, softening the planet up for invasion.

46. You cannot hide from the Scourge. You cannot run from the Scourge. You will be found and brought into the fold.

47. Resistance can only delay the inevitable.

48. We have devoured countless worlds, entire Galaxies. We have left nothing but broken men and worlds in our wake.

49. Ours is a millenium old duty. We are the apex predator, and you are all prey in our eyes.

50. There is no stopping us. Soon all life shall be united, and your utopia will be realized at last. 