Is possible to bombard them until they become barren planets, these can be terraformed. Their main ability is to infest planets, being their main source of food along with all the living entities of these planets, they consume them and later transform into "infested worlds": Planets devoid of life that only Prethoryns can habit. The Prethoryn are hive-minded species, they never use mechanical technology, and instead use biological weapons that can bypass shields and armors. Other forms of that the Prethoryn can take are insect-like and fish-like entities that have the size of spaceships, these are also very different from each other. Is assumed that this form is the only one that contains enough intelligence to communicate with the player. The Prethoryn scourge has many different forms, the most common being the one that consist of a large eyeball planted on a stalk with prehensile tentacles. When they are finally defeated, there is a 10% chance during 15 years that new Prethoryns can spawn on the map, they are called as "Feral Prethoryn" and are assumed to be the remnants of the infestation in planets, they only appear on systems previously infested by the Scourge, these Feral Prethoryns are obviously much weaker that the normal ones and can fight other Feral Prethoryns, they never expand and only roam on surrounding systems, they cannot be communicated in any way possible. When 100 years later have passed in-game, the Prethoryn Queen will reveal that the galaxy where her species came from has vanished by an exterior force, is implied that this force are the Hunters. It is heavily implied that they infested and devoured countless galaxies before coming to the player's galaxy.ĭuring the battle with them, an incapacitated queen can appear on the map, the player can tame the queen after some decades. Little is known about their past, except for one thing for sure, that they are fleeing from an unknown force that they call "The Hunters", that hunted and killed their entire race for eons, with only a few surviving and still escaping to the time where the game takes place, according to them, the name "Prethoryn" means "Survivor" in their own language. They can only communicate with species that have psionic powers or other hive-minded species, if a player that does not possess none of these traits attempts to communicate, they will only be received by gibberish, that is actually the Prethoryn own language. In the game, they appear as one of the "Endgame Crisis", particular threats to the entire galactic civilization that spawn when the player's game is far advanced, they can appear if the player selects them during the game settings, or by random choice if the setting is left as random. They are an evil intergalactic, extraterrestrial and hive-minded race, with the only objetive of infesting and consuming the galaxy (The galaxy where the player is currently playing in). The Prethoryn Scourge are a major antagonistic faction of the videogame Stellaris, along with Extradimensional Invaders and The Contingency. ~ The Prethoryn Overmind when asked about the Hunters. WE MUST FEED HERE TILL THEN, SO THAT WE CAN FLEE BACK INTO THE DARKNESS BETWEEN GALAXIES WHEN THEY ARRIVE. THEY HAVE MADE US THE LAST OF OUR KIND, AND THEY HAVE HUNTED US, THE SURVIVORS, FOR EONS.