http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/Robopoop/Bio%20Pics/UltraliskLARGE.jpg (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a323/Robopoop/Bio%20Pics/UltraliskLARGE.jpg)<br/>Okay. The pic is a little exaggerated thanks to the artist. His size is not as large as it portrays. I'll be following its original size as depicted from the game, about slightly larger than a Terran siege tank. Its armor color scheme is also gunmetal black wth red glowing eyes.<br/><br/>Faction: Due to his being cut off from the Zerg since birth, he harbors no allegiance to any faction save for himself. However, he may rejoin the Swarm with a bit of 'persuasion'.<br/>Name: Araq<br/>Class: Ultralisk (Alpha) Cerebrate Cross Breed<br/>Special abilities:<br/><br/>- Limited psi powers such as telepathy.<br/>- Able to extend his horn into a beam like blade using psi energy, much like those of Protoss psi blades only much longer. Also able to charge his kaiser blades with psi energy to provide more cutting or crushing power.<br/>- Short range psi scream, used to disorient and weaken. Effective to about 10 meters. Ineffective against psychic or psi shielded enemies.<br/>- Somehow able to connect into the Khala and disrupt its energies. Limited ability to detect nearby Protoss and disrupt some of thier abilities. Effective to about 20 meters. However, this also means that he cannot hide from any Protoss or Terran psychic within this range. Powerful protoss can detect his presence from across planets.<br/>- Armored carapace is reinforced by a rechargable shield that can be easily broken. A hit deflects a strong attack or several light attacks but also nullifies the shield for about 8 hours.<br/>- Due to mutations, Araq can no longer control a whole brood. He can still command a small band of Zerg if given the opportunity.<br/><br/>Background(if any): Once the Cerebrate leader of the Jormangand brood, Araq survived the death of the Overmind on Aiur long enough to know that his life was in jeopardy. The millions of crazed minions that he lost control of made short work of whatever they got their claws upon, inclusive of himself amidst the chaos. He was slain by the very creatures that served him and without an Overmind, he could not be reborn. However, a cunning plan made by him before hand allowed for his remains to be collected by a programmed drone in the aftermath, along with the genetic material of a dead Protoss templar. The drone worked as it was instructed to do and before long, a single larvae was spawned at a lone hatchery far from the marauding and lost Zerg. The larvae morphed into an egg, and the drone carried it away, buried it inside a cave and sealed the entrance by sacrificing itself. The fusion of genetic material took fruit in Araq's wild gamble for rebirth but before he could hatch, he was discovered by Samir Duran's unit and subsequently transported to a research facility on a backwater planet for 'hybrid study'. This planet just so happened to be the now near barren planet of Mar Sara, and the secret facility an old relic of the Confederacy. Once he hatched into the Alpha Ultralisk, just he had intended, the facility did not hold him long and in a furious rampage, escaped the facility into the open wilderness. He was never spotted again for a very long time.... until now.<br/>Personality: Being the driving force behind the destruction the Jormangand brood could leave behind, Araq is brutal, ruthless, cunning and determined, the bloodiest among all the Cerebrates under the late Overmind's control. He takes no prisoners and his lust for blood is only staved off by newfound willpower to think before he leaps. The Brood Wars and the disaster on Aiur had taught him much about mortality, even if his body was a powerful Ultralisk. He is not one to repeat past mistakes, as he is on his last chance to exact his bloody revenge upon the Terrans and the Protoss. He is wary and cautious of Kerrigan, however, as he had not trusted her ever since she was reborn. He holds her in suspicion as an 'usurper' after the Overmind's death, but otherwise holds no ill will because she had not done anything to antagonize him.... yet.