Aparoids

“	We will answer... We are the ultimate existence... You will not resist us... You will join us!	„
	~ Aparoids to Team Star Fox

Background

Aparoids are a race of insect-like creatures that are part-machine, part-life form. From minor enemy units, to major bosses, they serve as the main antagonists in "Star Fox: Assault".

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Aparoids’ story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

It is not exactly known how or when the Aparoid species formed, or if they may be a mutated race. Their homeworld is outside of the Lylat System. The Aparoid queen, who likely had a significantly longer lifespan than other organisms, may have created the species, as she can spawn more aparoids. By Beltino's account, about seventeen years prior the Aparoid Invasion, a lone winged Aparoid came across a Cornerian Fleet and wiped it out leaving few survivors to witness, which alerted the Cornerian Army to the Aparoids' existence. However, nothing was done in defense, as no other known attacks were made on them by the Cornerian Army. The Aparoids did not show themselves again, and went quiet for a time. The Aparoids had previously infected an entire planet outside of the Lylat System, and gathered enough strength to launch a full scale invasion of the entirety of Lylat, as the Queen felt everything in existence rightfully belonged to them. In the midst of the Oikonny rebellion conflict, the Aparoids executed their invasion, by first striking Fortuna, where the last battle of the rebellion was being fought. A Winged Aparoid (assumed to be the same one that attacked the fleet) arrived at Fortuna, and revealed itself when he destroyed a slightly weakened version of Oikonny's flagship, who was leading the rebellion. The Aparoid then did battle with Fox's Arwing immediately after it attacked the Star Fox team on sight, but was killed. Its Core Memory was taken by the team right as the Aparoids launched a full-scale attack on the planet. The Cornerian Fleet recognized them and escaped, but the army of Oikonny's rebels were ignorant to the danger and all of them were killed, save Oikonny himself. Fortuna's natives, escaped and suffered very light casualties, but the Aparoids had the planet occupied. Soon they struck with full force on the galaxy, capturing many planets on the way in vicious battles. The Cornerians reacted by hiring Star Fox to deal with the threat. One of the next victims of the Aparoid Invasion was an outpost on Katina. Star Fox was notified of a distress signal coming from this outpost, and was sent there by General Pepper to find the source. The Aparoids attacked with many of their infantry troops, but were unable to stop them, even with consistent reinforcements spawned by Aparoid hatchers. The Aparoids finally sent the commanding Aparoid mothership to the surface of the planet. The leading vessel was destroyed by Fox, and its Core Memory was stolen by Pigma Dengar (the one who sent the distress signal) before Star Fox could claim it. The Aparoids were driven off of Katina afterwards. The Aparoids then attacked Fichina, which coincidentally, was the exact location where the Star Fox team had been dispatched to find Pigma. The Aparoids captured the climate control center, eliminated the scientists stationed there, and with some unexpected help from Pigma, got the sentry bots turned into Aparoids. But Fox intervened and were able to get the control center back on. The Sentry Bots attacked him, but were defeated by Falco. Pigma again gave some more unexpected help to the Aparoids, by using the Core Memory to turn a piece of the center's engineering into an Aparoid, which would cause the center to explode if the infection was not defeated. The Aparoid was defeated, and it was soon driven out by Cornerian Soldiers. The Cornerians discovered Pigma's whereabouts in Meteo, an asteroid belt, and were sent to capture him with Star Fox leading it. They were unaware that, due to Pigma's actions, the Aparoids had began assimilating him into some form of machinery. The Aparoids attacked with full force and used the assimilated prototype they captured on Fortuna against the team, but to no avail. They soon caught up with Pigma, who was just assimilated into the machinery. The team defeated him and captured the Core Memory, earning Corneria a victory, with the bonus of Meteo. Just as Corneria was analyzing vital data from the Core Memory, the Aparoids attacked Corneria's ally planet of Sauria, because they were drawn to large energy sources shown by Sauria's dinosaur tribe's unmatched ability to survive. The natives fought back hard but were nearly defeated with certain tribes suffering heavy casualties. But Star Fox quickly rushed in to reinforce the Saurians and destroy the hatchers there. While Star Fox was on Sauria, a colossal Aparoid armada invaded Corneria itself, nearly decimating the Cornerian Defense Force, assimilating many of the soldiers stationed there, and quickly gaining control of the planet's capital city. The Aparoids also placed a number of EMP jammers throughout Corneria City to disable the use of radar and telecommunications. Star Fox came to stop the Aparoid invasion, with Fox going on foot to seek and destroy the jammers. After an arduous struggle, Fox was then trapped by a multitude of Aparoid ground and air units, and was caught between assimilation or a gruesome fall to his death, but in a turn of events, Wolf came to Fox's rescue and destroyed the Aparoids surrounding Fox. After Star Fox and Wolf defeated a large number of air and land based Aparoids, General Pepper's flagship flew in from over the ocean, having been infected by Aparoidedation. Fox was forced to fight him, and as Pepper was about to die, Peppy rescued him by stabilizing the fall trajectory with his Arwing. The Aparoids quickly learned of the invasion plans of their homeworld, and attempted to stop it by launching a full scale offense on the orbital gate. Star Fox and Star Wolf assisted the Cornerians and seemed to hold back the Aparoids' massive waves of fighters. The Aparoids then began to warp in multiple missiles in an attempt to destroy the entire station. After the missiles had been destroyed, the aparoids launched a gigantic, three-part missile, but it was also destroyed before it could achieve its goal. It seemed that while there were still a few Aparoid fighters left in the area, the battle was over. The Cornerians launched an offensive on the planet with Star Fox leading the invasion, but the Aparoids managed to reduce the Cornerian fleet by 20% and forced them to retreat. The Aparoids had set up a shield to protect the way into the planet's core. Star Fox took out the generators and the team prepared to go into the planet solo, but the Aparoids activated an auxiliary shield. However, as the Great Fox was under heavy attack by Aparoids attaching themselves to the unprotected rear hull, Peppy and ROB presumably sacrificed themselves by ramming the ship into the shield, taking it down just long enough for the Star Fox Team to get through. The Aparoids threw everything they had in desperation at Star Fox and the Star Wolf team, which had also some how gotten through the Aparoid's defenses, but were unable to stop Star Fox from entering the queen's lair, with Star Wolf distracting a group of Aparoids that was blocking Fox from proceeding further. The queen initially tried to fool Star Fox into surrendering by using information from things it had absorbed to try and convince Star Fox that the Aparoids were not an enemy, using the voices of the team's friends and father. It didn't work, however, (mainly due to Fox deducing that his father would never tell him to give up) and after a fierce battle, Star Fox succeeded in launching the self-destruct Program into the queen, but she began suppressing it and tried to escape, which would allow it to create an antibody. Star Fox gave chase and after one final battle, was able to set off the program. The Aparoids, the queen, and their homeworld were completely annihilated soon after, and their threat was ended.

General Information

Name: Aparoids

Origin: Star Fox: Assault

Sex: Genederless (They are robotic creatures that possess no Sex)

Age: Unknown

Classification: Insect-like Creatures, Part Machine, Cosmic Parasites

Species: Aparoid

Occupation: None

Status: Deceased (Were killed by Team Star Fox after they killed the Aparoid Queen)

Alignment: Neutral Evil (The Aparoids are a group of parasites out to force all to become one with them and rule the universe)

Codex Statistics

Key: Regular Soldiers | Higher Ranked Soldiers | Aparoid Queen

Tier: 8-A, At least 6-C with a large amount of Aparoids | At least 6-C | At least 6-C, 5-B with Self-Destruction

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City District level (Can vaporize the offline Arwing which is this levels of energy), At least Island level with a large amount of Aparoids (A large amount of aparoids could greatly damage the Great Fox) | At least Island level (Casually one-shotted Andrew’s ship giving the Arwing trouble. A whole fleet was destroyed by one Aparoid, beings like Pigma fused with an inactive space station could fight Assault Arwings, which have been refined and improved to have the strongest firepower in the Lylat System) | At least Island level, Planet level with Self-Destruction (The very death of the queen caused destruction across the entire planet)

Durability: City District level | At least Island level | At least Island level

Striking Strength: City District Class | At least Island Class | At least Island Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Combat Speed: Supersonic (Can tag Fox McCloud) | Supersonic | Supersonic

Reaction Speed: Supersonic | Supersonic | Supersonic

Stamina: Limitless (As robots Aparoids do not get tired)

Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Hundreds of Meters with energy attacks (Their energy attacks can travel out this far), Hundreds of Meters through sheer size (Many of the aparoids are this large), Interstellar with Teleportation (Can warp into the Lylat System from outside of the Lylat System)

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Aparoids are highly intelligent lifeforms that continuously become smarter and smarter through absorbing information, capable of easily defeating the Cornerian army and nearly defeating Team Star Fox on several occasions)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight (Some Aparoids can fly), Spaceflight, Immortality (Protection from a Source; Aparoid spawners can continuously spawn aparoids infinitely until they’re destroyed. Reliance [On Being]; The Aparoid Queen is the source of all aparoid will, as long as she exists, the Aparoids will continue to multiply), Inorganic Physiology (Living Objects; Aparoids are robotic insect-like creatures with no biological function), Pseudo-Duplication (Aparoid spawners can spawn more aparoids), Technology Manipulation & Possession (Aparoids are able to take over and infect other machines, making even non-combatant machines become combat enemies. The Aparoids have radar jamming technology based on technology not even the smartest minds of Corneria know of), Mind Manipulation (Aparoids can even take control of organic life to the point that even if their mind is still capable of resisting their body cannot), Biological Manipulation & Fusionism (Aparoids can infuse organic life into their machines increasing their strength), Disease Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Physical; The Aparoids infection can kill beings), Power Bestowal (Through Aparoids controlling organic life they can give them the ability to breathe in space), Spatial Manipulation & Teleportation (Aparoid forces can warp into parts of space, along with teleporting weapons for attack).

Resistance to Soul Manipulation (Aparoids are robotic creatures thus they lack a soul, with it even being directly noted by Fox they do not have a soul)

All previous powers and abilities, Energy Manipulation (Can shoot out an energy beam), Fire Manipulation & Telekinesis (Can burn the ground to cause molten rock to come up and telekinetically throw the attacks at Fox), Homing Attack (Can send homing projectiles), Electricity Manipulation (Can create electricity and green fire around them to blast off in all directions)

All previous powers and abilities with the exception of Immortality, Absorption & Information Manipulation (The Queen used the information from all things she’s absorbed to mimic the voices and memories of characters close to the Star Fox team), Power Nullification (Could suppress the self-destruct system specifically made to kill her), Adaptation (The aparoids can suppress abilities used on them and create an anti body to them, essentially adapting to abilities, even if it’s their weaknesses), Water Manipulation (Has a strange liquid-like substance that she can freely control), Curtain Fire (Can fire a large amount of energy beams all around), Breath Attack & Matter Manipulation (Does a particle breath attack), Forcefield Creation (Uses shields to try and trap Fox outside of her radius)

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Equipment

Aparoids

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Aparoids will attempt to assimilate a person with them if it doesn’t work they will proceed with various kinds of energy attacks.

Weaknesses: Killing the Aparoid Queen will kill all aparoids, inflicting a self destruct program into the apoptosis of an Aparoid, including the Queen, will kill them, though they can surpress it and develop an anti body.

Battle Records

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