In fact, if there is a direct danger to the Brain Bug, the Bug hordes will cease attacking until it manages to get away to safety.

The importance of this type of Bug amongst their hives meant that it is heavily defended with Warrior Bugs fighting to the last to protect it. These abilities allow the creature to control its colony as well as keep everything inside it working efficiently. They are known to be highly intelligent and are adept in a range of telepathic powers. They had multiple eyes on their head, much like a spider, and a fleshy mouth. They resemble large fleshy slug like creatures who were so fat that they were incapable of traveling completely by themselves and instead were carried by a swarm of Arkellian Sand Beetles/Chariot bugs. In contrast to the Warrior Bug, the Brain Bug was physically almost completely defenseless, although they could emit a high pitched screaming noise capable of bursting blood vessels in human heads at a short distance. They were highly intelligent and commanded entire Bug colonies and directed their forces against enemy threats.

These variation of the Bug (scientific name Cerebus rex ) strains are a leadership caste amongst the Arachnid forces that served as a vital role as a hive brain for their colonies. The Brain Bug captured on Planet P as seen in Starship Troopers (1997 film)īrain Bugs?! Frankly, I find the idea of a Bug that thinks offensive! After Operation Royalty, several Brain Bugs were captured, although none of them survived for long afterward. The 'brains' are easily held by humans in their power suits.īrain Bugs depend entirely upon their workers and warriors to survive, their own bodies possessing 'barely functional legs, bloated bodies that were mainly nervous system.'ĭuring the Operation Royalty, Charles Zim captured a Brain Bug. It is hinted at in the novel that the Brain Bug is telepathic and it is stated that the 'brain' shares a symbiotic relationship with the Bug Colony and that if it dies, the colony dies. The Brain Bug as shown in the 1976 board game Starship Troopers.Ī Brain Bug is the leader of a Bug colony of the Pseudo-Arachnids. 3 Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.

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