Talk:Racuna/@comment-5870856-20150421033103/@comment-1743498-20150425221838

Yeah, that's the right idea. Part of the reason why I aimed to avoid making it like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (or in another case, the Borg) was that the Buyuk were meant to still be recognizable as their own species rather than having them be the disease itself.

And yes. Not only were the Buyuk inspired by the Grox, they are the Grox. When we ported our creations from Spore Fan Fic Wiki over to this one, the only thing we did to the Grox was change the name. It became "Harbingers", then it was later changed to "Ghorax", and finally given the name "Buyuk" to distinguish them as a particular faction of Ghorax. Much of the backstory comes from from fan fiction and theories I made about the origins of the Grox - in that the Grox were once their own species, but then turned to cybernetic implants.