| Hettenacle | |||
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| General Information | |||
| Universe | No Man's Sky | ||
| Aliases | Risslite Starnacle | ||
| Species Type | Starnacle | ||
| Homeworld | New Hette | ||
| Environment | Usually anchored to Risslite | ||
| Intelligence | Non-sapient | ||
| Biochemistry | Carbon-based lifeform | ||
| Discovered | 3421 | ||
| Discoverer | Noot | ||
| Biological Information | |||
| Reproduction | Sexual; release airborne gametes | ||
| Locomotion | Larvae: Float along air currents Adult: Sessile | ||
| Feeding Behavior | Filter-Feeder | ||
| Prey | Aeroplankton | ||
| Distinctive Features | Bioluminescent | ||
| Eye Color | Black | ||
| Skin Color | Dark gray pedunkle, teal capitulum | ||
| Lineage Information | |||
| Related Species | Barnaclissh | ||
| Cultural Information | |||
| Alignment | True Neutral | ||
| Personality | Mindless filter-feeders | ||
| Organization | Colonies | ||
| Sociocultral characteristics | |||
| Scientific Taxonomy | |||
| Planet | New Hette | ||
| Genus | Neohettes | ||
| Species | riffliteus | ||
| Other Information | |||
| Status | Least concern | ||
| Creator | Procedurally generated (as part of the substance Risslite) | ||
| First Sighting | May 28, 3421 | ||
| Last Sighting | Current (3420s) | ||
Hettenacles (Neohettes riffliteus) are a species of starnacles indigenous to the terrorsphere planet New Hette. They are filter-feeders, feeding upon drifting aeroplankton.
Found almost exclusively on a substance known as risslite, Hettenacles rest upon a long, muscular and segmented stalk (known as the pedunkle). The head (known as the capitulum) houses the primary body elements of the organism. It is from here that they unfurl their nearly-unnoticeable and surprisingly long flexible cirri for grabbing microorganisms to distribute to their comb-like mouthparts. These cirri can be a couple meters in full length. They have numerous eyes hidden in rows around the capitulum and they are known to glow with light blue bioluminescence, though the exact purpose of this glow is unclear. It is thought that it may help attract certain species of aeroplankton to them but little research has yet to be performed.