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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 5132591" data-attributes="member: 41485">I'll combine technowraith's request for an alien aquatic brute with Dannyalcatraz's idea of a radially symmetric creature. They're like echinoderms, like sea stars. Capable of growing extra limbs, these tentacled monstrosities come in all manner of shapes and sizes. They reproduce by budding, shedding limbs to form independent creatures. They can mate through recombination, multiple creatures donating limbs into a single chimeric offspring. Early in their history, they crawled around in sea beds. Eventually, they showed incredible problem-solving capabilities, learning how to find and chase down prey in a huge number of different ways. Some figured out how to use the small and large individuals in different ways, showing a large degree of specialization. Eventually, they started combining their individual arms into new bodies in various ways. For example, they might mimic a hand and arm by attaching a number of small tentacles to the end of a large tentacle, then send the new creature off to handle human equipment.  Nowadays, they are a force to be reckoned with, with many different configurations and undecipherable motives.</blockquote>