Vulcain

ENCOUNTERED Solar CLASSIFICATION Stellar plasma bioweapon OFFENSIVE CAPABILITIES Plasma projectiles, scythe-like appendages DEFENSIVE CAPABILITIES Regenerating exoskeleton

INTEL Researchers conducting long-range scans of Solar have uncovered the presence of a powerful bioweapon that appears to have been engineered by Dr. Andross. Reconnaissance probes have returned alarming images of an enormous creature with a rocklike exoskeleton and powerful scythe-like arms. It appears to have been designed to react with extreme aggression toward any moving creature other than itself.

Upon analysis of Vulcain's composition, researchers have surmised that this life-form has been engineered to thrive within the ultrahot furnace that is Solar's plasma sea and may, in fact, be composed of the same materials as its environment. Because of this, the creature appears capable of reshaping its own exoskeleton so it can spit projectiles made of superheated plasma as a protective mechanism.

Note that this bioweapon is believed to be the source of recent instability detected deep within Solar.

ASSESSMENT Projections indicate that prolonged activity by Vulcain could destabilize Solar and precipitate a mass-casualty event affecting the entirety of the Lylat System. The bioweapon must be destroyed before Solar's condition reaches a critical state. Though it remains unclear how an attack might be launched in such an inhospitable environment, any attack on Vulcain should target its known weak points: its arms and its mouth.