Star Snacker



Star snackers are beings from a higher dimension named after their most commonly observed behavior which is to feed on stars. Although many races attribute evil to them, their true motives are beyond cognition, and are more likely to not have a manichaean interpretation of their acts. It's hard to identify an individual snacker since their appearance changes randomly. Another source of confusion when IDing snackers comes due to their ability to move to our dimension from outside, which makes it possible for them to be in more than one place in the Multiverse at once. Contrary to popular belief, those beings don't have any particular preference for stars, what draws their attention is any region where high-energy-density (HED) plasmas can be found, hence the apparent behavior of them liking to eat stars. Since the regimes of HED plasmas occur in a wide range of ultra-high temperature and/or ultra-high densities, snackers can be found everywhere, from war zones where high yield weapons are being used to space portals. Although a rare event, snackers sometimes chase ships, attracted by their engines.

Morphology
See: General appearance of beings from higher dimensions

The general shape of a snackers can roughly be described as a elongated and curved cylinder which is rarely smooth, having appendages growing in a random pattern. Snackers vary in size and color, with a single individual capable of changing those two attributes depending on how they are drilling into our dimension. No knowledge exists about their anatomy, as their internal parts could not be probed. Their size ranges from as little as a meter to as much as several billion kilometers. The color of a snacker comes mostly from emitted radiation, which can be composed from spikes in any part of the spectrum, thus making them appear different, depending on the observer's visual receptor’ sensitivity. All snackers have what is regarded to be a mouth. This opening serves to consume plasma. The space curvature inside this region is similar to those of a black-hole having a singularity at its center. Different observers in the Multiverse described the snackers as having characteristics that could not be scientifically verified, such as the snackers having eyes or being enraged if attacked. Such descriptions are regarded as cognitive illusions caused by imperfect interpretation of those observers’ minds, created based on previous knowledge.

Intentions
There is no consensus on any logical explanation for the snackers actions. As is common when dealing with beings from higher dimensions, the snackers didn’t show any intention in communicating when approached. Since it’s known that some beings from higher dimensions do communicate, the most plausible explanation is that the snackers purposely chose not to interact, not because of a lack of capacity but an absence of interest in lower dimensions affairs.

Hazards
Unlike the Great Devourer, coming in contact with a snacker is not always fatal; but should be avoided at all costs.The most common effect of such an event is a random displacement of the subject’s position relative to the sublayer, which results in a tunneling into a different spatial location, timeline or even universe. Some cases resulted in the subject being thrown into the sublayer, outside any universe. Contact with the snacker’s mouth, however, is widely accepted to be fatal.

Controversy
Since the destruction of the last iteration of the Multiverse there are no documented cases of snackers coming to our dimension. This led to some speculating that those beings were actually an unknown species from within the Multiverse. Those theories, however, don’t hold true when the energy signature from the snackers are analyzed against samples from our dimension. In spite of the controversy that has marked this topic, the most widely accepted explanation for the lack of snackers sights are:
 * The Multiverse is no longer easily accessible from their dimension due a change in the topological configuration of our entire dimension.
 * The snackers lost interest on our multiverse's energy signature
 * Their projected appearance changed, making them indetectable from our point of view.