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UNDEFINED XENO
Praetorian	Difficulty: Hard Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Assist xenos with your pheromones and very strong acid, stun marines with acid cone Guides: no separate guides Quote: "Say 'scream' again. Say 'scream' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say scream one more Goddamn time!"*

The Praetorian

The Praetorian is a powerful ranged-support Tier 3 Xenomorph that can spit both neurotoxin and acid, spray a large cone of acid, and emit pheromone auras to help allies within a certain radius. You are also tough enough to help with front-line combat, but are still somewhat vulnerable to fire.

Playing the Praetorian

Praetorians are some of the hive's most powerful support and leader castes. When the hive decides what caste the spitter should evolve to, they default to the praetorian for the following reasons:

opening push with acid spray
stunning multiple marines with acid spray
increasing marines' horizontal state with acid spray
suppressing marines with neurotoxin spit
assaulting, harrassing, and insulting the marines with acid spits
disengaging out of marines' firing lane with the pheromones frenzy to repeat the harrassment
emitting pheromones to fellow xenomorphs
extinguishing fire with acid wells and, to a lesser extent, acid spray

Name	Description	Metabolism Rate	Overdose Threshold	Critical OD Threshold
Neurotoxin ▮	A debilitating nerve toxin. Impedes motor control in high doses. Causes progressive loss of mobility over time. Causes progressively increasing pain and stamina loss, increasing after ticks 20 and 45. Additionally, purges medicines at a rate of 1u per tick. On overdose, causes 0.5 toxin and oxy damage; critical overdose stops breathing.	0.4 units per tick	30u	60u

All spitters want to be the Praetorian, and all Praetorians want to burn down marines with acid spray and spit.

You can switch between neurotoxin and acid spit, and your acid spray is a very powerful ability which sprays a cone of acid across the ground seven tiles wide and four tiles long. Acid spray will knock down any marine that it hits and will do damage to anyone that stays in it or moves through it while it's on the ground.

Pheromones are another critically important tool you must use. You can switch between recovery for faster healing and plasma regeneration, warding for extra protection, and frenzy for a speed bonus. Make sure you're always emitting pheromones to help yourself and your team, and when applicable, make sure you aren't overlapping pheromone types with other Xenomorphs to maximise their usefullness.

Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths

The Praetorian is a Tier 3 and cannot evolve further.

Maturity increases stats as follows.

Slash is the melee damage when the xenomorph is in harm intent and slashing marine. In the code, it's melee_damage.
Melee, bullet, laser, energy, bomb, bio, rad, fire, and acid are soft armor values, not hard armor, which means that they reduce damage by a percentage rather than a flat value.

Age	Health	Plasma	Slash	Melee	Bullet	Laser	Energy	Bomb	Bio	Rad	Fire	Acid
Young	290	800	20	30	35	35	35	0	28	28	35	28
Mature	320	900	20	35	40	40	40	0	33	33	40	33
Elder	340	1000	23	40	45	45	45	0	35	35	45	35
Ancient	360	1000	23	45	50	50	50	40	38	38	50	38

Maturity for the Praetorian will increase considerably more stats compared to other castes, which includes

Acid Spray damage
The delay between Acid Spit actions
The amount of neurotoxin transferred when using Acid Spit, while neurotoxic splash is selected.
The strength of pheromones, which can determine how powerful some actions will be, along with pheromones themselves

Age	Spray Damage	Spit Delay	Neurotoxin Amount	Pheromone Strength
Young	35	1.3s	9.5	3
Mature	39	1.2s	9.0	3.5
Elder	43	1.1s	9.5	4
Ancient	47	1.0s	10.0	4.5

Praetorian Abilities

Ability

Description

Plasma Cost

Cooldown

Toggle Bump Attacks

This ability allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. If for some reason you want to avoid them, toggle this off. The red arrow means it's on; the green arrow means it's off.

N/A

Rest

This ability is used to rest and get up. You will heal only when resting on weeds and will also regenerate plasma faster.

N/A

Psychic Drain

This ability is executed on dead marines. Every dead marines psyhic drained will give 60 psychic points and 1/8 of a larva.

100

N/A

Corrosive Acid

Lets you expel acid from your body onto any structure/object you are able to. Praetorian acid is medium strength, stronger than a Sentinel's but still weaker than a Boilers or Queens acid.

100

N/A

Place acid well

Place an acid well that can put out fires when a xenomorph steps on the acid well.

500

2 minutes

Emit Pheromones

Toggles to see your pheromones, allowing you to select recovery, warding, or frenzy. You may only emit one at a time, and you can see which pheromones you are effected by in the '''stats''' tab. Each pheromone uses 5 plasma every regeneration tick, which doesn't do much.

Pheromones:
Accelerates healing for health and plasma.
Increases armor and accelerates sunder recovery.
Increases movement speed.

5 per tick

N/A

Toggle Spit Type

Toggle between using neurotoxin and acid spit.

N/A

Xeno Spit

Spit neurotoxin or acid at a target or tile up to 7 tiles away. Acid does permanent burn damage.

???

Spray Acid

Channel a cone of acid across the ground in a 4x7 tile area. Knocks down targets it hits and does tick damage to any target that stands in or moves across the acid while it remains on the ground.

300

30 seconds

Primordial Evolution

NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE INGAME.
Once the hive has enough psychic points, your queen has the option to unlock powerful primordial evolutions for each strain. Primordial evolutions grant additional abilities for the relevant class.
For the XENOMORPH, this primordial ability is XENO NEW ABILITY.

Ability	Description	Plasma Cost	Cooldown
64px XENO PRIMO ABILITY	DESCRPTION	N/A	N/A

Tips & Tricks

In the absence of the Queen, you will often be looked at as a central point of combat due to your powerful pheromones. Make sure you're supporting your other Xenomorphs and paying attention to the battle.
You can help an assault succeed, or even influence a push to begin, with a well-placed acid spray that drives marines back from barricades or catches some out, wounding them or cutting them off from support.
Praetorians also rival Spitters in their harassment ability, so make sure you're constantly spitting neuro or acid when you're not spraying or fighting.

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, ~~Survivor~~

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