Ramla had seen the monsters herself but the horror they embodied was impossible to describe with words.
According to her, the things that would attack the base had the appearance of ants, except for the fact that each of them was almost two meters tall. Their bodies were covered in a jet-black carapace that seemed to absorb the light around them, creating the illusion of a thin veil of black smoke surrounding them. Their six limbs were like long sharp spikes stabbing into the ground with such ferocity that they left holes behind as they advanced, but nothing was more frightening than the mandibles attached to their heads, with a length of more than a meter and jagged ends that threatened to rip apart anything that came close.
The antennas over their heads moved frantically as if searching for something. Many would point in the humans' direction only for the monster to let out a pain inducing screech and accelerate its advance.