Rearing Swarmer

The rearing swarmer split from its ancestor. Some dark swarmers in the LadyM Ocean discovered the seafloor detritus as a food source and their descendants adapted to a life feeding almost exclusively on it. Rearing swarmers swallow sediments, digest the nutrients in it and spit the remnants out. They lost their photosynthetic abilities completely and have a camouflage pattern that hides them from predators using bioluminescence. If disturbed, rearing swarmers will erect their front bodies to show the eye spots on their undersides, sprawl their hind tentacles and flash up the light organs on them, sometimes they will throw up their ingested sediments at their attacker. Their luminescent organs are usually inactive and hidden inside skin folds.

They crawl on the ground most of the time, using their claw-like leaf fin appendages and swim rarely, although they sometimes travel long distances to reach carcasses of bigger animals lying on the ocean floor. Their single eye is atrophying and mainly used to detect flashes of other rearing swarmers; smell is their primary sense.