Death Spider

The Death Squad were the first variant of the mass waves that came spilling from the Asylum cities. After their emergence more and more varied and terrifying Asylumists emerged. Back in the depths of the Asylum cities the Blood Engine had furthered their experiments and had began selecting those from their Death Squads that showed promise. Once selected they were recalled, prepared and transplanted into a new body. The new killing machine, aptly named the Heavy, proved to be a valuable bodyguard and front line soldier. As soldiers of the Coalition moved into the ruins of their fortresses, laid waste by the waves that had attacked before, they came face to face with these creatures of metal and flesh. Hunkering down, silent and still, the Heavies kept hidden until hapless soldiers wandered into their view. With a roar and red flash the Heavies engines would spring to life as the bulk of metal rose and unleashed its weapons on its prey. The Spider variant, able to traverse terrain with ease and armed with a terrifying array of flesh rending weaponry proved time and time again to be the end of countless units. Heavies come in many shapes and sizes, sculpted and altered for the task at hand. Their design often incorporates living flesh as to the Blood Engine, working with flesh is just as valid as metal and wire. If a beating heart would suffice for a pump, or a muscle as a pulley, onto the structure they go, often straight from a unwilling victim. The perceived weakness of the flesh is remedied by the Heavies deflecting fields, augmented and altered tissue samples and a Blood Engine’s ingenuity and imagination, of which there appear to be no limits.