Translations:Codex: Sand Worms/33/en

Hybrids grow astronomically quickly when compared to their ‘parent’; with ‘parent’ being the host. As stated above, the continuation of the orange female strain requires the infection of a hybrid by another orange parasite type. The hybrid genes that they pick up in each reproduction cycle keeps the inevitable incestual damage to a minimum. This reproductive quirk hints at some genetic crisis in their evolutionary past, thus requiring them to take on genes from another species or become essentially sterile. Why they needed to do this, or what led up to this reproductive crisis is a mystery so far. The only lead so far is that there is an unusually high amount of sydian DNA located in their cells. Because of this, xenobiologists speculate that the first genetic hybrids were of sydian descent and could be why the hybrids are always more insectoid than the host species.