Ferrarachnid

Ferrarachnid is an alien from the series Tech Cross.

Abilities
Ferrarachnid is a bus-sized spider-like alien with the ability to curl into a wheel and launch itself forward at high speed. When in wheel shape, the metal plating on Ferrarachnid's claws grows to cover the gaps, shielding her vulnerable areas.

Ferrarachnid's metallic exoskeleton is extremely difficult to pierce, and her thermal vision and acidic venom make her a dangerous hunter.

Weaknesses
Ferrarachnid's wheel form is unable to turn quickly while moving, restricting most of Ferrarachnid's charging attacks to straight lines.

Appearances

 * TBA

Etymology

 * Ferrarachnid's name is a combination of the words "ferro" (meaning "iron") and "arachnid".
 * Kirota is a corruption of the word Chiroptera, the order that encompasses all bats. The planet was originally named as Batdrill's homeworld, but has since expanded to become the home of several sentient species in Earth-83.

Motif
Ferrarachnid is based on the wheel spider, a huntsman spider native to the Namib Desert that escapes parasitic spider wasps by flipping onto its side and cartwheeling down sand dunes at high speed.

Trivia

 * Ferrarachnid is the first full depiction of the Iron Spiders, a predatory species from Kirota mentioned in both Iron Wrecker and Spiderfreak (Tech 10: Rebooted)'s Planet and Species Information bios.