“ Somewhere, out there amongst the stars, a group of Hylotl peace missionaries fiddle with their radio and attempt to contact home. They have no luck, just like the last time, and the time before, and the time before that. Outside of their cave, the entrance of which they've disguised with a net of branches and leaves, strange noises can be heard. Unusual, garbled chattering; an alien language, unknown to the Universal Linguistics Database. The automated translators fail to parse the chattering, but the Hylotl know. 'Find them,' the voices are saying. 'Find the fish people.'
The Hylotl are down to their last ration pack now. They ran out of bandages days ago, after Kawaski slipped down a cliff and needed patching up. He recovered, but they're in a bad way now. Hungry, thirsty, cold, warmed only by the campfire they dare not light until they're sure the creatures outside are gone.
Agarans, they are called. Named by Greenfinger, of course. What creature isn't these days? The Agarans are plants - the Hylotl knew this coming to the planet, they knew the risks, the suspicion the Agarans regard them with, their unknown connection to the Florans. But the Agarans have been peaceful until now. Sure, they've been cropping up more and more around the galaxy; spreading, spore-like, although nobody has ever seen them engage in space travel.
Of course, the Hylotl sent their peace missionaries to make contact, to understand this strange, mushroom-like species. To guide them down the right path, to distance them from the vile Florans. But here, on this remote planet, the Agarans proved just as menacing as any other murderous plant.
The missionaries encountered the first group standing around a towering monolith made of plant matter. They were chanting, singing, dancing. The smell of blood and fire lingered on the air. Blindly, arrogantly, the missionaries approached. The Agarans stared at them, then began to jabber in that strange, unknown language. Then, seemingly as if commanded by a silent voice, they began to attack.
The missionaries - or what remains of them anyway - huddle together in the cave. The spores are spreading. Outside, the voices are growing louder. There's a rustling, then nothing. One of the missionaries breathes a sigh of relief, and then the camouflage is torn away from the cave entrance, and the Agarans stand there, murder in their mushroom eyes.
'Go,' one of the older missionaries whispers to Coralgrower. 'You're still young, strong. You can make it. We'll hold them off. Go.
'Go and warn the universe about the Agaran menace.'
Coralgrower flees, charging through the dark cave, trying to ignore the sounds of battle behind her. Trying to ignore those voices, those sounds, and then... that strange, growling sound, not like a creature at all, but the sounds of something taking root, growing, spreading, filling the mouth of the cave, chasing her down, down, down the dark tunnel, the scent of sap and oak dancing just behind her, out of sight.
Coralgrower does not stop running until she reaches open ground, and teleports up to the ship. She knows the others are lost. Her heart still racing, her breath still ragged, Coralgrower sits in the captain's chair and makes the jump.“ — The Agaran Menace[1], 공식 포럼의 관리자 Razey
개요
게임 스타바운드에 등장하는 플레이어 선택 불가 종족으로 현재까지 종족 전체가 확실하게 악역의 위치에 있는 유일한 종족이다.
버전별 묘사
기본적으로는 포자를 통해 종족을 확산시키며 그 호전성으로 유명한 플로란마저 쩔쩔매게 만들 정도의 호전성을 가지고 있다고 묘사된다.
베타 : 코알라
Enraged Koala 버전때에 최초로 등장했지만 초창기에는 그저 HP만 많은 바보같은 적대성 NPC 였으나... 위 소개문이 공개되면서 그야말로 포럼을 충격에 빠트리게 만들었다. 아직까지 베타인 만큼 완성되지 못한 면을 감안한다면... 버섯 블럭과 목재로 만든 집들로 이뤄진 이들의 마을을 발견할 수 있는데 여느 마을이 그렇듯 플레이어에겐 호위적으로 보인다. 말을 걸면 감탄사로 보이는 "Hooh"등을 비롯해 알듯 말듯한 단어들만 몇개 나오거나 검색되지 않는 언어[2]라는 에러메세지가 등장한다. 단순히 번역이 안되 무의미해보이지만 공식 위키페이지의 다일로그를 보면 종족마다 대사가 있다는걸 알 수 있다.
이외에도 아펙스의 작은 건물을 점거한 모습이나 알인지 식물인지 영 알 수 없는 다양한 크기의 Fungal Pod를 두고 이를 지키는 듯한 모습도 포착되는데 글리치로 이걸 조사해보면 원래 플로란의 것이였다고 한다. 심지어 상호작용하면 둔닥한 소리가...
베타 : 기린
기타
아직 완성되질 않아 알 수 는 없지만 적어도 현재까지는 촉수괴수나 Miniknog과 같이 확실하게 악역의 포지션을 가지고 있는 종족이고 유일하게 직접적으로 게임내에 등장하고 있는 악역이기도 하다.