Translations:Codex: Nukas/20/en

Phaedra II’s lushest zones, where nukas likely began their evolution, are home to a species of predator plants known only as ‘plugs’. This devious flora hunts by propelling itself from a pod via chemical reaction and lodging itself in the throat of a victim species and anchoring itself in place with numbing spines. Nukas managed to escape predation by developing auxiliary breathing channels on the chest, through the lipples. Scientists theorize that a gastric linkage evolved later to ease the rearing of freshly hatched young.