Mizzurani

The Mizzurani are one of the Minor Aliens in The Long Journey Home. They're squid-like, and often the first or second alien race encountered by a player in a new game. Though they are very friendly, contact with them can cause crew to become infested.

Description
The Mizzurani see all organic life as both friend and food, consuming worlds and races typically by crashing their own spacecraft onto the surface and letting worms infest the surface. Their society largely consists of parasitic worm-like beings which enjoy populating and "eating" worlds by causing epidemics.

Upon first greeting a Mizzurani vessel, they will always offer a gift of an EM fuel tank, distinguishable from regular EM fuel tanks by the small purple worm that appears in the corner of the icon. Using the gift fuel tank will infest any crew member that installs it. Other races recognize it and will not want to buy it.

Their vessels follow the player once getting close. When they follow the player, they will "accidentally" crash into suitable planets and infest them. This can be weaponized by the player to infest worlds owned by other races, thereby removing a hostile race's influence from that system completely unless a station or gate is present. To avoid infesting planets, before looking for resources on their surface, Mizzurani ships can be attacked and destroyed.

Sending a lander to the surface of a world with a Mizzurani crash site can cause the crew member to become infested, even without landing. A crew member who has an infestation injury has a chance of infesting other crew members over time, and will suffer from greater infestation as time passes.

They consider all races their friends except the Cueddhaest, because as energetic beings, they cannot be infested. The Mizzurani consider the Vine Consensus to be just like them, "but with pretty flowers". Most other races generally dislike or strongly dislike the Mizzurani.

Interactions
Mizzurani are your friends. That's why they always intercept, when they see you. The first time they even offer an infested EM Tank for free. It does not matter whether the player accepts, they will start following the player after an encounter. However, they don't follow the player through gates. If they follow the player to a healthy planet, that does not contain ruins or other special structures, they will crash onto the surface and infest the world. Attacking a Mizzurani will turn the Mizzurani hostile, but they forget about it, as soon as the player leaves the star system. A Celindion Device will make them attack the player immediately.

Docking at a Mizzurani gate, or starport will infest a crew member.

Show

 * Mizzurani Nostrum (Friendship) - turns Mizzurani hostile.

Insult

 * Logos - Adds evidence during the Chemtrails in the Sky quest.

Starports and ships
Mizzurani cities, gates, and starports do not exist by default.

City
Mizzurani cities are created by the player guiding a Mizzurani Friendship to an inhabited planet, where it is crashing into the surface. The local alien race will immediately turn hostile and die. Landing in the city is possible and the player can loot an infested piece of equipment, or get a piece of evidence during the Chemtrails in the Sky quest. Beware of the planet's atmosphere while landing, the pilot has a chance to get infested.

Gate
Mizzurani Gates only appear after making a specific decision during the Chemtrails in the Sky quest. They do only provide restock and repair facilities and will automatically infest a crew member during docking. Using the gate is for free.

Planetary wreck
Mizzurani infested planets are the most common way to meet the Mizzurani. A greenish fog on the planet and huge Mizzurani tendrils in the landing view, are a good indication, that the planet is infested. Mizzurani planets always contain a wreck, that can be looted without any tools. The player can loot an infested piece of equipment, or get a piece of evidence during the Chemtrails in the Sky quest. Beware of the planet's atmosphere while landing, the pilot has a chance to get infested. Mizzurani planets are in general guarded by a Mizzurani Friendship.

Starport
Mizzurani starports only appear after making a specific decision during the Chemtrails in the Sky quest. They do only provide restock and repair facilities and will automatically infest a crew member during docking.

Friendship
There are 5 different Mizzurani Friendships sharing the same name. Friendships are using infested ships of other alien races as a vehicle. They will all defend themselves, if attacked and have no shields. They all deal special infestation damage, that can infest a crew member. Friendships don't form a real threat to experienced players and can be killed even with the weakest ship equipment without taking damage.

Cueddhaest drone
The ship is an infested Cueddhaest drone (it would spawn, if the player had attacked a Cueddhaest Templar). Being the smallest ship, it can only shoot with two cannon straight to the front and lay mines.

Ilitza drone
The infested Ilitza drone (it would spawn, if the player had attacked an Ilitza Executioner) is the weakest Friendship. It can only shoot straight with a single cannon.

Meorcl Prideyacht
The appearance of the medium sized Friendship is an infested Meorcl Prideyacht. It uses 2 static cannon aiming to the front left and front right of the ship and 1 dynamic cannon protecting the sides.

Wolphax Knight Marshall
The strongest ship is an infested Wolphax Knight Marshall, which can fire 4 rockets to the front and protects its sides with 7 static but mighty cannon. The back is protected by 1 dynamic cannon.

Glukkt Trader
The infested Glukkt Trader is the largest and slowest Friendship. It uses 5 static cannon shooting to the sides, but has no weapon to the front making it an easy target.

"mizzurani grow mizzurani seek friends"

Assessment of the Entrope
(only accessible with Admin-Device on Entrope Stations)

Spores that are able to survive in the space. Have enorm Terraforming capacities. Potential weapon of an uncontacted civilization. Potential future weapon if correctly harvested.

data update is made

Update after exposing the Logos during the Chemtrails in the Sky quest:

FILE UPDATED. Designate LOGOS/MIZZURANI. Sentient plague from another galaxy. Evolved form posed as precursor race. Exposed by designate HUMAN.

Assessment of the Galaxy
During the Chemtrails in the Sky quest, many races will give hints on how they see the Mizzurani and their actions.


 * Ilitza: "We have tried harnessing its power before, but the Logos always swoop in and interfere. A pity. With so many Mizzurani, we could keep our cities fueled indefinetly."
 * Meorcl: "Mizzurani make poor servants. We order them until we art hoarse, yet they still persist in their trespass and infestation. We wouldst consider we hast underestimated them. Except that we do not make mistakes."
 * Raxact: "Hahaha! Never touch worlds of the bubblehead ones. Their cleansings turn worlds from planets into suns."
 * Subbeq: "Horrible creatures. Vile. Awful. Thank goodness the Logos are here to fight them. Always right on time. Almost."
 * Vine Consensus: "To be curios. To be one, yet many. To be like Yggdrasil, but to corrupt. To find only best worlds. To speak, but not to communicate with words. To be psychically connected. Not just to others. To whole infested worlds many sectors away. To command, perhaps? To not know..."

Conclusions
Even the similar Vine Consensus sees the habits of the Mizzurani as egoistic and dangerous. Their behavior seems to be a facade and fraud. They themselves even help dead worlds blossom and reach life, Mizzurani eat and destroy their worlds. They also have a united psionic network, which the Vine Consensus has not.

The Meorcl's inability to stop the Mizzurani implies their psionic network is stronger than the Meorcl's natural affinity for psionics.

Ilitza would like to use the massive biomass of the Mizzurani for a near unlimited quick reproducing biofuel. They have mastered the Xaquindi before, there is little doubt they could back up this claim. All that is in their way are the Logos. If only someone would remove them so they can enslave the Mizzurani.

The Raxact immediately imply an odd result for some of the Logos purification efforts. It seems to turn former habitable worlds either into real suns or they mean radioactive tomb worlds.

The Celinedion device seems to cut the Mizzurani off from their psionic network and the hivemind. This enrages them and hurts them... understandably. The Logos know about that.

Trivia
Mizzurani do not use capital letters or punctuation marks.