Glukar

The Glukar are a horrifying alien race from the planet Ardeneat. They were the second extraterrestrial race discovered by the Dhragolon Federal Monarchy. The Glukar, although sapient, are rather unintelligent having the same intellectual skills as a human toddler their entire life.

Biology
A Glukar usually appears as a bipedal, brown furry rodent-like creature about ten inches tall. This creature has similar body proportions as a teddy bear doll with large eyes. Glukar also have the ability to speak when in this form and are referred to as Gophers.

Glukar have a metabolism of anomalous proportions. In Gopher form, they must consume at least 25,000 calories per day in order to maintain their appearance. As they age, they usually do not have to eat as much, but still more calories than an Olympic athlete.

The Glukar have similar shapeshifting abilities to the Lusari, but are much more limited and unable to change at will. Gophers maintain their form so long as they continue consuming food. On the verge of starvation, the Gopher will transform into an abomination. From a central spherical body are numerous snake-like appendages each with a set of jaws. Each jaw has five tongues each with another set of jaws. When feeding in its true form, a Glukar will use its appendages to rip its victim apart. Becoming a meal for a Glukar is perhaps one of the worst and most painful deaths too terrible to describe on this wiki.

After ten days without transformation, the Glukar will reproduce via mitosis. Its tail will fall off and grow into another Gopher. So long as there is an abundance of food, Glukar can reproduce at an alarming rate.

Civilization
After joining the Sinister Hegemony, the Eghos begun genetic experiments on the Glukar creating many variants. While the Glukar are sapient already, more intelligent versions with more reasonable metabolisms were created to be used as grunts in the frontline of battle. However, the modified, intelligent Glukar were also used as representatives for communicating intelligibly.

The original, unaltered Glukar were often traded to their enemies as house pets destined to devour their owners who would most likely be unable to keep up with their high demand for food.

Discovery by the Dhragolon
Most Dhragolon were able to pick up on the fact that the Glukar were not simply adorable animals, because rodents were unpopular pets in Dhragolon society and instead seen as food. However, the Dhragolon had become sucked into steep trading agreements which eventually resulted in a war.

Extinction
The Glukar shared a similar fate as the Lusari. Upon the destruction of the Eghos Oligarchy, the Glukar could no longer obtain food by themselves. However, instead of starving to death, the Glukar resorted to cannibalism and the entire race ate itself.