Alien Marauders

Whether you are role-playing in a grim-dark sci-fi universe or a lovecraftian horror setting, these alien marauders will slaughter everyone you love and won’t stop chasing you.

"In the darkness between the stars, jagged spaceships approach isolated colonies like packs of hungry predators circling a wounded animal. Their cargo holds are empty of prisoners and the crew is extremely hungry. They are the Gul, the most feared and savage alien species on the galactic north-western fringes. Every single member of their culture is a warrior by necessity for their food of choice is other species. You cannot reason with them, surrender will only prolong your suffering. To them you are food. Even pretending that you’re dead won’t save you, for they eat the dead. If the Gul are coming to your planet you have two options, fight or hide. If you choose to fight them, make sure that they don’t catch you alive. If you choose to hide, crawl inside the deepest hole you can find, lay as still as possible and pray silently. They can hear breathing through walls. If it were me, I’d have a grenade on me at all times just to make sure there will be nothing left of me for them to eat. Just out of spite…well…there’s option three I suppose. Drink enough poison and even they will refuse to eat your corpse."

The Gul are a barbaric species of aliens that inhabits the furthest regions of known space. They have a warrior culture and for the most part are unwilling to communicate with other intelligent species. Their tenacity in battle, extensive body modifications and willingness to use technology that is as deadly to its users as it is to their enemies, combined with their penchant for devouring other intelligent species makes them feared by all.
Over-reliant on unsafe atomic energy to power their ships, weapons and colonies, the species exhibits rampant mutation. Even the armour that they wear for protection is warm to the touch as it is made of radioactive metals. Sadly the entire race suffers from the effects of this to such an extent that it is rare to dissect a member of the Gul and not discover that they were suffering from some type of cancer. Due to their refusal to communicate, it is unknown if they are even aware that this technology is killing them.
It is speculated that even before their culture shifted to space piracy, the Gul were a predatory species that were perhaps already known for their monstrous practices on their home planet.
It is also theorised that mismanagement of their nuclear technology led to killing all life on their original planet and forcing the species into their current predicament.
Whatever the reason for their practice of hopping from planet to planet, the end result is always the same. They consume other species for food. This coupled with their outright refusal to negotiate, has led to the Gul joining the very short list of intelligent species to be purposefully excluded from participation in the Intergalactic Federation of Star Systems’ parliament. They also share the dubious honor of belonging to the Solar Empire’s list of alien races to exterminate on sight, which some consider to be a badge of honor worn by those species that refuse to bow to imperialism.
To go into detail about what the Gul do to other intelligent species that they encounter is too grim to describe here, but suffice it to say that debates over the eating of other intelligent beings of the galaxy have the tendency to dominate discussion in the various galactic courts as multiple intelligent species who have evolved from predators have a history of conflict over the morality of such matters.

These are the Alien Marauders. Crazed irradiated invaders from outer space coming to your game to eat your player characters.
In this art pack you will find:

Leaders. The Gul Warlord and the Gul Motivator are often seen leading war-parties of the marauders. While the Motivators usually take prisoners back to the dark holds of their ships, the Warlords are simply there to kill.
Soldiers. The average Gul marauder is cybernetically enhanced, wielding a set of melee weapons and a light ranged gun of some sort. Their enhancements often take the form of auto-injectors for a cocktail of combat drugs and aggression enhancers that make them frenzy in battle. A motivator or Warlord equipped with injectors are required to control aggression levels in the soldiers. Bomb implants are often installed as a precaution.
Gunners. Often armed with dangerous and cruel weapons the Gul gunners are much like the soldiers except their purpose in battle is to display overwhelming firepower. The Radgunner’s weapon is capable of reducing people to ashes. The Razorgun launches small projectiles that are meant to maim and injure rather than outright kill. The heavy gun is used as a mobile defence turret.
Scouts. Gul infiltrators are the first wave of attack. The smallest and least enhanced by aggression implants, these warriors are known to sneak into unsuspecting colonies during the dark and wreak havoc by disabling the power, or sabotaging defences before the short arrival of the rest of their comrades. Employing noiseless razor-launchers until their task is completed at which point they switch on their terror-inducing chainsaw weapon-arms. Sowing as much chaos and confusion as they can.
Specialists. The technobarbarians are a scientific class of warriors whose focus is on inventing new ways to kill or cybernetically enhancing the other members of their raiding party. On the other hand the Crystal Mantises play the role of a spiritual guide or sorcerer. It is not uncommon to see a mantis take up a leadership role in a raiding party. Due to their extensive crystal implantation however they seem to often be the most mutated members of any warband and don’t live long. Rage beasts are perhaps the final form of what a marauder can become. Through rampant use of drugs, artificial hormones, steroids, aggression implants, agitating spikes and stimulants, these warriors are enormous and can shrug off damage as their all consuming rage simply does not allow the creatures to die. Deployed as a shock and awe tactic only when the Gul are losing a battle. These rampagers are capable of overturning a tank when in the throes of their battle frenzy and are seemingly impossible to control, attacking friend and foe until their supply of combat drugs runs completely dry at which point either they collapse due to multiple heart failures or are too injured to continue to battle.

Thank you for taking interest in this token pack. These aliens are hyper-aggressive intelligent monsters borrowing from the looks of serpents and insects with their scaly bodies, long tails, multiple limbs, spikey exoskeletons and lack of distinguishable faces. They are clearly meant to be bad-guys for your next sci-fi campaign, but if you think they are cute for some reason, buy them anyway and feel free to disregard all of the lore above and make them have picnics or something. Their knife-hands will be very useful for cutting sandwiches into equal parts so they can share with their friends.

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