Ferrarachnid

Ferrarachnid
General Information Species: Iron Spider Home World: Kirota Body: Massive Armored Spider Powers and Abilities Abilities: Wheel Charge Metallic Exoskeleton Thermal Vision Acidic Venom Details Classification: Fauna Motif: Wheel Spider Royal Jumping Spider (Titania Form) First Appearance: Re X Mix

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 herself 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 fangs are able to inject an acidic venom that's capable of melting her prey from the inside out.

Ferrarachnid has thermal vision in addition to her standard vision, allowing her to identify any living thing inside her field of vision.

Ferrarachnid's metallic exoskeleton is extremely difficult to pierce.

Weaknesses

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

Titania

Ferrarachnid is greatly strengthened in her Titania form, being able to launch herself hundreds of feet into the air with a single jump. Her fang-like chelicerae secrete an iridescent, more powerful version of her acidic venom, which allows it to be sprayed out in addition to injected, and her vision has been enhanced with the ability to adjust the shape and angle of her eyes' inner lens, essentially turning them into organic telescopes.

Appearances

• Re X Mix (Debut)
• Star X Lovers (By Technova X)

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.

Ferrarachnid's Titania form is primarily inspired by the royal jumping spider.

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.

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