V'uurog

"'What IS that thing?!' - Captain Asenath March"

Locations
Inside hollow asteroids in newly generated systems after a blind jump.

Appearance and Behavior
V'uurogs resemble a squid or octopus. They have one big orange eye that is framed by a ring of six tentacles of different lengths and sizes. If the body indeed is shaped like a sea lily to anchor itself in the asteroid is not yet clear. V'uurogs react hostile to intruders and both try to hit them with their tentacles and shoot at them with their eye. How the latter one is supposed to work is unclear. To defeat them, shoot at the eye.

They don't breathe oxygen. How they spread and what they eat is not known. It can be speculated that they sustain themselves via some sort of chemosysthesis, dissolving and ingesting the minerals of the asteroid they live in. Their hostile behavior can either be explained by them obviously being solitary life forms who see intruders as competition for their limited supply of nutrients, or by them seeing the metallic ships as nutrient sources.

The latter hypothesis may be likely since ship hulls are potential drops from their loot table, indicating they consume ships. It would also explain why they relatively often can be found at places where the space-time has properties that make it more likely that ships drop out of their warp bubbles. This would of course imply that the V'uurogs posses senses that allow them to notice such alterations, maybe hinting to them also being able to warp travel or phase, when their supply of minerals is running low.

V'uurog's eye can be probed for a random Research Materials and XP. Killing it gives a secret achievement 'Call of The Void'.

Missions
Strange Creature from the Blind Jumpers at the The Burrow

Defeating V'uurog unlocks the secret Steam Achievement