Trond Alien

This is a model of a Trond warrior, the enemy of my whale warriors.
The Tronds are from a star system far away from the border regions of the Whale-Human Alliance. They are believed to be the descendants of two very different life forms that evolved into one very deadly organism. This happened very early during the development of life on their home planet, when all animal life was still living in the oceans. During that time a small parasitic squid like creature developed the ability to plug itself into the heads of larger animals with their tentacles and take control of their bodies. The tentacles would also provide them with nutrients from their host. The creatures seemed to prefer attaching themselves to the bodies of large ocean predators and thus became effectively the top of the food chain themselves. Over the time parasite and host evolved into a completely new animal. That new creature had the body of large carnivore, the aggressive instincts of a born hunter and the egoistical ruthlessness and cunning of a parasite. Tronds refer to their ancestor as the Alpha Hunter. Its greatest advantage however was that it still retained two brains that controlled their own sets of acoustical, optical and smelling organs. This allowed them to concentrate on different tasks at the same time, like looking out for possible enemies while hunting prey themselves. The interaction of the two brains also allowed for thinking capabilities unmatched by all their competitors. The creature became so deadly that is was responsible for the first animals to leave the oceans and start living on the continents. The creature however stayed in the water.
After thousands of years the animal had evolved further into a humanoid creature with a civilisation similar to that of humanity during the Stone Age. But when the ocean was ravaged by a series of underground earthquakes and volcanic eruptions for almost 200 years the Tronds evolved again and left the water for living on the land. But these new Tronds found out they were not the only intelligent species on their planet. One of the animals that had left the oceans when the Alpha Hunter still roamed the oceans had evolved into an intelligent humanoid mammal race. While their brains were not as evolved as that of the Tronds they had had no natural enemies or natural disasters on the land and thus had evolved to a civilisation similar to earth’s Bronze Age even. The mammal race did not mind its new cousins from the ocean but the Tronds with their parasitic predator instincts could not suffer any challenge to their rule of the planet. While slightly less advanced in weapons technology then their mammal cousins their aggression allowed them to wipe out their competition in less then a century. But this early challenge to their supremacy by what the Tronds call the “First Enemy” had left a psychological mark on the race. While the instincts left from their parasite ancestors had always given them little regard for the life of other creatures the Tronds now firmly believed that the had to exploit, enslave or wipe out all other life unless it suited their purpose.
Once the Tronds had established themselves on the surface of their planet it only took about 3000 years for them to advance their society far enough for interstellar travel due to the advanced thinking capacities of their two brains. By that time they had exploited most of their own planets resources and left it polluted with most animal life long consumed by the large Trond population. The Tronds never set out to explore space but only to conquer and plunder. For the next 5000 years they brought death and destruction to the galaxy enslaving or destroying several other star empires on their way. They were especially ruthless to civilisations that evolved from mammals. Their encounter with “First Enemy” whose civilisation had evolved faster then their own, despite only having one brain, had made them more fearful of mammals then any other being they encountered since then.
This fear became justified when they encountered the realm of the Whale-Human Alliance. Never since their fight against the “First Enemy” had the Tronds encountered such a powerful opponent. The war with the Alliance even inspired an uprising of races that had been enslaved by the Tronds for centuries. The Tronds were forced to a ceasefire with the Alliance to quell the revolutions rising in their realm. Like always they were swift and ruthless. Every race that tried to rise against them was completely annihilated. Only a few hundred survivors could escape the genocide by seeking asylum within the Whale-Human Alliance.
With the rebellions inside their realm smashed the Tronds have started a new war with the Whale-Human Alliance to destroy this threat to their rule of the universe once and for all.