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Homunculus-wasp

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this small, poisonous insect was native to the planet Af'El. Assassins sometimes used these small creatures to kill their targets, since the wasp was very tiny. These creatures were called kheilwar by the Defel. There was only a short period of time in which the homunculus-wasp could be employed this way, for they grew at an astonishing rate. In just a week, the tiny insect could amass more than twenty kilograms of body weight and grow to a height of 1.5 meters or more. They were armed with razor-sharp fins and large wings that absorbed and warped visible light, giving it the ability to seemingly disappear. Perhaps their most unusual ability, though, was the ability to transform its body into a simulacrum of anyone it had met. This allowed the creature to further blend into a crowd, and infiltrate a location if its initial attempt to kill a being failed. The homunculus-wasp was primarily a nocturnal feeder, since its sensory organs were badly damaged when exposed to normal sunlight.