CLASS: VAMPIRIC

   A silicon-based organism with quadruple-helix DNA, the bite of this hyper-evolved being robs living things of some unknown property until they are little more than crumbling ash, one of the few processes that can truly annihilate its preferred prey - vampires. The creature even reproduces parasitically in vampiric hosts, implanting tiny embryos that grow for several weeks before burning their way out.