Suvekizer

The suvekizer is one of the largest and most dangerous cosmozoan species found within known space. A crystalline monstrosity resembling a colossal, spiny, triple-jawed worm, the fully grown suvekizer can pull entire starships down its throat with a natural tractor beam while shrugging off even the firepower that a Starfleet explorer can bring to bear if not carefully directed. They mostly inhabit the region of space coreward of the Federation, but have been found elsewhere.

Suvekizers reproduce by implanting their embryos into small, rocky moons or planets. Over a period of many years, the larval organism feeds on the stellar body's core heat and mineralogy, eventually consuming much of its mass and bursting forth through the crust to begin its adult life as an apex predator of the interstellar ecosystem.

The suvekizer was named after the USS Suvek, which was destroyed by one of these creatures during the Arcadian War.

Various Alpha and Beta quadrant races have had several types of interaction with this species. The Interstellar Commonwealth has encountered these creatures several times in the past, and their Guardian group commanders are drilled on how to deal with them. The Yan-Ros have developed another method of killing suvekizers that involves allowing the creature to swallow a specially prepared ship and then attacking specific vulnerable points inside of its body. The Licori mentats once experimented on suvekizers, encouraging them to breed in the space just coreward of the Arcadian Empire so that the mentats could devise a method of controlling the planetbound larvae; unfortunately they succeeded only in causing a local overpopulation of these dangerous, uncontrollable beasts. The Federation has a well-developed research program based on studying a larval Suvekizer, which has contributed a great deal to making encounters safer for Federation ships, but the creatures remain a danger to unwary civilian shipping and frigates.

Game History

 * In the fourth quarter of 2301, the USS Enterprise commanded by Captain Nash ka'Sharren discovered a hollowed out ice moon that had been left behind by a gestating suvekizer, though the species was not yet known to the Federation.
 * Starfleet's first encounter with a suvekizer was in the first quarter of 2313, when Captain Langa Mbeki of the USS Odyssey responded to a Licori distress signal, and found a destroyed mentat laboratory at the site of a gestating embryo that had had its growth accelerated by mentat experiments. The Odyssey crew terminated the larval organism by reflecting an energy beam back and forth through the moon's interior.
 * During the Arcadian War, the Licori used one of their growth-accelerated suvekizers as a booby trap against Starfleet, resulting in the destruction of the USS Suvek in the first quarter of 2315.
 * A particularly large suvekizer approached inhabited space in the fourth quarter of 2315, and was slain through the combined efforts of the USS Atuin commanded by Captain Vol Chad and the Yan-Ros Ranger Team 37.
 * In quarter three of 2318, another large suvekizer destroyed a Dylaarian cruiser and crippled the USS Tarrak when it came following the Dylaarian distress call. Captain Leaniss and most of her crew were saved at the last moment by the arrival of an ISC battlegroup which wounded the creature and forced it to retreat. The wounded suvekizer was then finished off by Captain Enad Rebin of the USS Vigour when it began menacing nearby civilian shipping.


 * In the final quarter of 2318, the USS Courageous discovered a larval suvekizer gestating in the rocky moon of Beta Cthon I-B. Reluctant to kill an organism that wasn't presenting an immediate threat to sentient lives, Captain Sabek and his crew devised a method of sending the larva into hibernation. A Federation research colony was then founded on Beta Cthon I-B to study the dormant organism and hopefully discover a nonviolent method of deterring others of its species from attacking starships.


 * In the second quarter of 2322 the OUS Nelhiar’s Honor defeated a newborn mentat-bred Suvekizer while operating with Task Force Beyond.