Description
Cone-Spiders are a genetically diverse biological species of eight-legged arachnids present throughout a wide variety of levels. They are cone-like spiders with a large cone covering their body and small ones covering their joints. Cone-Spiders prefer dark and moist levels that at least have a 'natural' semblance to it such as looking like a forest. This the general habitat of the Cone-Spiders, however due to their immense genetic diversity, there are large amounts of similar subspecies that don't classify as a true 'entity variant' but merely what gives the entity Class Variable. Different Cone-Spiders have different behaviors and respond differently to their surroundings.
The time they were generally discovered is unknown, but it seems their origin point came from a higher cluster as no reports of Cone-Spiders were mentioned during most of recorded history. But perhaps they do have involvement with history for there is the existence of the Domestic Cone-Spider.
Species
Documented below are an accessible list of known species of Cone-Spiders.
- Common Cone-Spider
- Domestic Cone-Spider
- Frigid Cone-Spider
- Luminous Pygmy Cone-Spider
- Giant Cone-Spider
Conservation Status: Least Concern
Species Description
Common Cone-Spiders are the most common species of Cone-Spider (it's in the name), found in a wide plethora of levels of the Backrooms. They are around half the average wanderer's size, and typically thrive in natural forest-like levels, but any level with 'natural formations' can suffice to them. They can also be found migrating through other levels, stopping by for food. They are passive to most wanderers and will only attack when threatened or starving. The Common Cone-Spiders are genetically stable, giving them a long lifespan where their cone-like body can accumulate in damages that can recover and form imperfections. Their cones are orange colored, whilst their arachnid bodies are black.
Common Cone-Spiders do not like to enter levels at or below Level -100 and will have a tendency to flee the levels until they are above the threshold on the number scale. How they know what level they are in is unknown, nor how they know where to go. Perhaps a hidden energy guides them, or it is a matter of genetic memory.
Species Behavior
Common Cone-Spiders wander the level, burrowing to create traps. They tend to prefer attacking entities and creatures that aren't wanderers, and will only attack the wanderers whenever they are starving or threatened (as previously mentioned). When not enough prey is found, they will typically go to a new area or altogether a different level meeting their criteria.
Species Biology
The average Common Cone-Spider can be found with a short black tail and have the general appearance of what is said in the main section of the document. One notable feature is how they have a lizard-like mouth.
Long-term experiments predict that Common Cone-Spiders have such extremely efficient metabolism to the point that they typically won't starve of food or water until 200 years of time passing, but due to the extreme lengths of the experiment, it has never been completed. Common Cone-Spiders are awake at all times, but rest to gain more strength.
Species Discovery
The discovery of the Common Cone-Spider, presumably the ancestor and base of all other Cone-Spider species, has been lost to time. However, it has been confirmed that the Cone-Spider genetic line has an origin point, an origin level.
Conservation Status: Least Concern (Controlled)
Species Description
The Domesticated Cone-Spider shares a great resemblance to the appearance of the Common Cone-Spider albeit smaller, but they bear a black and green color with the two colors existing in the form of various patterns. Additionally, the cones of the Domestic Cone-Spiders share a great semblance to a traffic cone, however the colors are black and green, and the edges and points are smoothed. This species was apparently domesticated through decades of extensive natural selection and genetic engineering from the Empire of Incanyuden.
Species Behavior
Domestic Cone-Spiders assist wanderers by searching for utile materials and objects. A majority of them are now considered stray Cone-Spiders, and they wander mainly indoor levels rather than outdoor nature levels. When under ownership or control by wanderers, they live wherever they are herded to. A majority of them are owned by the aforementioned Empire of Incanyuden, but many other wanderers now own their own Domestic Cone-Spiders. They still have an instinct to burrow and hunt like their Common Cone-Spider ancestor species, but they typically fail to do so.
Species Biology
Domestic Cone-Spiders have a small difference from Common Cone-Spiders, where they appear to have dog-like snouts. Additionally, their claws have grown in size and appear to be more efficient for digging (despite this, it has been previously stated that they still fail to burrow). Domestic Cone-Spiders have better vision, capable of seeing in further wavelengths than their ancestor species.
Conservation Status: Near Threatened
Species Description
This species of Cone-Spider prefers to burrow in snow and ice instead of the typical materials that most species burrow into. Frigid Cone-Spiders seems to attack wanderers more frequently than any other species, but are at the same time slow creatures, most likely trying to conserve energy while dealing with the cold.
Species Behavior
Frigid Cone-Spiders appear to have a psychological dependency of burrowing within snow or ice. If they cannot find snow or ice for extended periods of time, they will be in distress and act far more aggressive than ever, charging at anything it sees whilst wasting the energy it typically prefers to conserve. When properly burrowed, their cones are most of the time visible and when in proximity, it will emerge and attack any living thing that is nearby.
Species Biology
Frigid Cone-Spiders are slightly larger(~25% larger) than the Common Cone-Spider, with its body being colors of black, blue, and white. They are significantly slower due to an extreme decrease in metabolism to manage with the sub-zero temperatures of the habitat they reside in. Their limbs also appear to be covered in a fur material, which most mammalian species use to contain heat. Their cones appear to consist of a dense insulative material, ceramic-like in composition.
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Species Description
Luminous Pygmy Cone-Spiders are a rare species of Cone-Spider that typically live indoors in packs. They are much smaller(~45% smaller) than the Common Cone-Spider, and physically weaker giving the reason as to why they prefer being in packs, and presumably indoor spaces to be less out in the open.
Their cones exist in two states: a dark and a bright state. During the dark state, the cones are partially translucent and appear to be hollow in nature. In the bright state, they seem to glow a specific color brightly, illuminating their surroundings. It seems that these Luminous Pygmy Cone-Spiders are capable of controlling their cone lights at will, but it is not known why they have this trait or when they do it. All that is known that in packs they do it synchronously.
Species Behavior
Luminous Pygmy Cone-Spiders tend to mind their own business and move in packs, climbing the walls of the level they reside in and resting. What is known is that they seem to be siphon electricity from wherever they can, and also consume various rusts and oxides that can be found on metals within levels.
Species Biology
Luminous Pygmy Cone-Spiders appear to feed off these oxides and refine them internally into nano electronics located within their partially translucent cones, using the electricity they consume to power these nano-scale lights at will. Without these lights, their cones appear to be a desaturated orange and white striped pattern, with their main bodies also having a desaturated orange color. The last notable thing about the biology of a Luminous Pygmy Cone-Spider is how they have six legs instead of eight.
Conservation Status: Critically Endangered
Species Description
Giant Cone-Spiders have a physical appearance reminiscent to that of the Common Cone-Spider, but has ten legs instead of eight. It is assumed that the Giant Cone-Spiders may actually be the ancestor of the Common Cone-Spider, the giant ancestor starting off the entire species. Their size is twice the size of a manatee, which is already larger than a human.
Species Behavior
Giant Cone-Spiders are unable to attack anything due to their extremely low metabolism and therefore extremely slow speeds, and mind their business. They are generally solitary but in large oceanic levels have been seen in massive packs filter-feeding the waters. Perhaps their slow speeds were what was responsible for their current conservation status of Critical, approaching extinction.
Species Biology
Giant Cone-Spiders are massive, and so their metabolism is vastly decreased. They are gentle filter-feeders, consuming particles found in the waters that they live in. They are amphibious, but heavily prefer living on water. Giant Cone-Spiders also have extreme resilience against harsh conditions, almost like tardigrades. They are capable of surviving boiling water and freezing water. The cones of Giant Cone-Spiders are made of a metallic material, presumably formed from the gradual accumulation from particles found in the water they feed off of. Most of the cones are typically covered in rocks.
Rewrite Author: Moscovium-289
Original Author: Lindianr
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