Background

The Nibu Gemani are a voracious species of psionically-gifted, fungoid aliens who may have originated in one of the far-off Magellanic Cloud galaxies. Some scholars suggest they may have originally evolved even farther away and then spread like a disease throughout this part of the Universe. Whatever their true history, no one doubts that they’re one of the most destructive and dangerous forms of life known. Individually and in small groups they pose little threat, but they reproduce with enormous speed and devour anything organic in their path like Terran locusts. Furthermore, when large enough numbers of them gather in a single area, they form a gestalt hive-mind with considerably greater intelligence and power than the massed individuals; this “collective mind” can detect the presence of organic life across intergalactic distances, and telekinetically move the swarm at many times the speed of light. Using these abilities, the Nibu Gemani have apparently scoured countless solar systems of all organic life and matter. They descend in their billions and overwhelm the defenses of a world, destroy everything in their path, breed countless billions more, and then move on to the next star system. When a swarm becomes too large, it simply divides, traveling on in opposite directions to continue its devastation.
The Mandaarians psionically detected the presence of the Nibu Gemani and chose to fight them before they reached the Milky Way Galaxy. This effort failed, and in 1843 the Nibu Gemani reached the Galaxy. The ensuing twelve year-long war resulted in the death of billions (not to mention trillions of Gemani) and untold destruction, as well as the collapse of the Velarian Confederation. In the end, with the assistance of the Mandaarians, the alliance wiped out the Gemani nearly to the last. It took forty years for the Galactic Federation to fully rebuild itself.
Despite the best efforts of various species to exterminate them, a few straggling groups of Nibu Gemani remain in the Milky Way, scattered around the outer reaches of the Galaxy. By law in most governments, Nibu Gemani are to be destroyed on sight to prevent them from breeding and growing again. As long as they aren’t allowed access to enough food to begin their exponential expansion, they remain a minor threat.

Physiology

A Nibu Gemani is a short, squat, and powerfully-built creature more closely related to fungi and molds than any animal. Standing about four feet high, it has a thick, cylindrical body and a long, slender neck on which balances a small, round head. It has a single red eye in the center of its forehead and no obvious mouth (its eating Galactic Champions apparatus is lower on its body). Its three arms are thin and spindly but surprisingly strong, and it has three legs. Gemani skins range from dappled-gray to nearly black, with long dark “veins” prominently visible.

Group Relations

Individual Nibu Gemani have limited personalities and work together passably well. However, once approximately a hundred of them gather in one place (which usually means within 100 feet of each other, though this distance increases as their numbers do), a collective mind forms. It controls the actions of all Nibu Gemani present, and at that point they begin to act as a well-oiled machine. The collective mind exists only on the psychic plane, and its psionic powers immediately become stronger... and the more Nibu Gemani there are, the more psychically powerful they become. Given enough of the fungoid beings, the collective mind can have enough Telepathy, Telekinesis, and related powers to psionically dwarf the most powerful Mandaarian or Varanyi.

Tactics

The Nibu Gemani have no tactics to speak of. They simply swarm toward a target and begin attacking it with their psionic abilities, moving in an eerie tandem that signals the presence of a hive mind.
The Nibu Gemani do not specifically Hunt anyone. They regard all other living things simply as food.

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