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Terror Spider

Superiors: The Queen of Terror
Difficulty: Varies depending on spider type, from hard, to very hard.
Guides: This page
Access: Everywhere with an unwelded vent.
Duties: If there is a Queen of Terror, obey her. Otherwise, create and defend a spider nest.

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The Syndicate combined giant space spider and Xenomorph DNA, in the hopes of creating a bioweapon to use against NT.

The result was Terror Spiders, and they quickly breached containment.

Terror Spider Types

Type	AKA	Role	Notes
Tier 1: Soldiers
Red Terror	Bloody Butcher spider Crimson Terror spider	Juggernaut / Assault	High health, high melee damage, but very slow speed. Known to be able to out-robust several toolbox-wielding assistants at once.
Gray Terror	Invisible Stalker spider	Ambusher	Hides in vents, ambushing prey with webs. Its venom chokes its targets, preventing them from screaming for help as they are eaten.
Green Terror	Vicious Bloodsucking spider	Breeding	Drinks the blood of its victims, then lays clutches of eggs that hatch into more spiders.
Tier 2: Specialists
Black Terror	Giant Black Widow spider	Poisoner	Uses hit-and-run attacks, and incredibly lethal venom. Anyone bitten by this must get to medbay immediately, or they will die.
White Terror	Ghostly Nightmare spider Corruption spider	Infector	Injects live spider eggs into your body. Once these hatch, live spiderlings eat their way out of your skin.
Purple Terror	Praetorian Guard spider	Nest Guard	A variant of the red, these strong creatures use stunning attacks and vicious fangs to guard the nests of Queens.
Tier 3: Minibosses
Prince of Terror	Tank spider	Slaughter	This beast has armor comparable to an organic tank. Fast, tough, and deadly, a well armed squad is required to fight it.
Mother of Terror	Giant WolfMother spider	Schmuck Bait	Carries hundreds of spiderlings on its back. If killed, its children will stop at nothing to avenge their mother.
Tier 4: Bosses
File:Terror gold.png Queen of Terror	Brood Mother spider Arch Terror spider	Hive Queen	Builds nests. Lays eggs. Directs the brood. Spits mind-warping hallucinogenic toxins. Exterminates non-spider life.
Tier 5: Lovecraftian Horrors
Empress of Terror	Lovecraft Spider	Bigger Bad	Experienced, battle-hardened Queens that rule the species. If you see one, it is too late for you.

Fighting Them

• Weld vents and scrubbers. Even fully-grown Terror Spiders can ventcrawl. They will run around murdering the whole crew if you fail to weld the vents.
• Carry a gun. Melee weapons are not good enough to fight the vast majority of terror spiders. Laser weapons are preferable.
• If you can't get a gun, despite trying, carry the best melee weapon you can - and travel with friends.
• Don't travel into dark/webbed areas.
• Don't walk into spider webs.
• If bitten by a Black Terror, or White Terror, seek immediate medical help. You will be dead (or worse) within minutes if you don't do this.
• Attack ASAP once you have that gun. The longer you wait, the more they breed.
• If you are security, consider arming the crew. Terror spiders can be as dangerous as blobs, even worse in some cases. Arming the crew is safer than having a serious terror spider infestation.
• If you are science, make AEGs or lasercannons. Make sure security have them. Night vision HUDs help too. The absolute best weapon against Terror Spiders are mechs, especially mechs with lasercannons. You may not have the resources to construct those, however.
• If you are cargo, consider ordering eguns/laserguns.
• If you are command, get the crew organized. Remind people of what to do, and what not to do. Remind the assistants that these things are serious business, and hunting them with a toolbox is suicide.

Playing Them

• Destroy lights. You can smell blood, and see in the dark. Crew can't.
• Destroy cameras. They emit light, and let the AI see you.
• Incapacitate crew. Once incapacitated, drag them to a green, who will web them and drink their blood.
• Spin webs. They stop crew in their tracks, and even block shots to a limited extent. They have no effect on you, or any other terror spiders.
• Ventcrawl to find targets, and to escape groups of armed humans.
• Each spider type has its own strengths and weaknesses. Know them. Don't try to fight a mech with a black, a chemist with a white, or a sec officer with a gray.
• Follow the orders of the Queen of Terror, if one exists. The queen has the right (and the brute strength!) to tear you in half if you don't.
• If you are injured, go after easy targets for awhile. You regenerate slowly over time.

Terror Spider Abilities

Name	Restrictions	Description
Passive Abilities (all spiders)
Regenerate	speed varies	Terror spiders constantly regenerate health at a low rate. Certain actions increase this rate.
Hivemind	N/A	Terror spiders speak on their shared hivemind by default, but some of them can also talk with normal crew (via ":9" or ".9").
Sense of Death	N/A	Through the psychic link, the death of any one terror spider is immediately known to all of the others.
Active Abilities (all spiders, shown as verbs in the 'Spider' tab of your menu)
Web	15 second cooldown	Spins a Terror Web. These will block some projectiles one time, and ensnare any humanoid who enters them for several seconds.
Ventcrawl	takes 10 seconds	Alt-click on any non-welded vent or scrubber to enter it. After a few seconds, you can move freely through the pipe system, emerging at any other unwelded vent/scrubber you can reach.
Wrap	once per corpse	Wraps up a corpse, and drains it of blood. Doing this enables a green spider to lay eggs.
Green Terrors can also:
Lay Green Eggs	Wrap a corpse first	Lay eggs which can hatch into red, gray, or green terror spiders. Requires using Wrap on a corpse first.
Queens of Terror can also:
HiveSense	N/A	Reach out to your brood telepathically, sensing their locations, types, moods, and status.
HiveCommand	N/A	Issue orders telepathically to your spiders. These orders govern how aggressive they are, how mobile they are, etc.
Kill Spider	N/A	Instantly kills an adjacent terror spider who has displeased you. Intended for use on insubordinate spiders who are ruining your plans.
Lay Queen Eggs	long cooldown	Lay eggs which can hatch into red, gray, green, white, black, or purple terror spiders. Unlike with the green-level ability, Queens do not need to feed before doing this.
Hallucinate	limited uses	Causes a random person on the station to develop terrifying hallucinations.
Screech	single use	Blows out 25% of lights over a wide area.
Fake Spiderlings	limited uses	Creates a few immature spiderlings, broken and defective. They will never grow up, but they will scare the crew as they move quickly and spread widely.
Empresses of Terror can also:
Lay Empress Eggs	None	As Queen ability, but able to lay eggs for every type of spider, including Queens and Mothers.
Empress EMP	None	Emits a massive EMP, frying every electrical device in a vast area.
Empress Screech	None	As Queen ability, but 100% effective, and also breaks some other devices, such as cameras.
Mass Hallucinate	None	As Queen ability, but affects everyone on the station at once. Horrific.
Erase Spider	None	Targets a specific terror spider (located anywhere!) and makes it explode by dumping enormous amounts of telepathic energy into its brain.
Erase Brood	???	Declares a brood unfit for the swarm of terror, causing every spider in that brood to degenerate and die.
Spiderling Flood	???	Forces eggs in her egg sac to hatch early, producing potentially dozens of spiderlings at a time. All will grow up with murderous intent.

Objects & Drops

• Spiderling: Non-playable baby spiders. They move very quickly and like to hide in vents. Humans must kill them. Spiders must keep them alive.
• Terror Webs: Extremely sticky webs placed by spiders. Can be destroyed easily. Attempting to walk through them is highly likely to ensnare any human.

Questions

• Do terror spiders need oxygen? No.
• Are they affected by space/pressure? No.
• Can I kill them with fire? Yes, but it is hard.
• Can I kill them with toxins? No. They ignore plasma in the air, and syringes/syringeguns don't work on them (they do not process reagents).
• How do I play as one? Click on it as a ghost. There may also be a notice in ghostchat when a terror spider is controllable.
• Can adult terror spiders travel through vents? Yes.

Guide For Xenobio

• Can I spawn these as hostile mobs with a gold slime core? No.
• Can I spawn these as tame mobs with a gold slime core? No.
• Can I use a sentience potion to make one loyal to me? No.
• Can I use a transference potion to jump into one? No.
• Will I get brutally murdered if I try interacting with a wild one? Yes!

Guide For Admins

• To manually start a small infestation, spawn three /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/poison/terror_spider/green in an isolated area with an unwelded vent.
• To manually start a medium infestation, spawn one /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/poison/terror_spider/white in an isolated area with an unwelded vent.
• To manually start a large infestation, spawn one /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/poison/terror_spider/queen in an isolated area with an unwelded vent.
• To help crew deal with an infestation, provide them advice (use mechs, weld vents, etc), equipment (as listed above), or manpower (red/gamma ERT).
• To completely remove an infestation via adminbus, spawn an /mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/poison/terror_spider/empress, take control of it, and use the "Erase Brood" verb. This will kill ALL other terror spiders over the course of several minutes. They will not drop any loot when they die. After doing this, aghost out of the empress, and delete it.