SHIPWRECK CLASS: SHIPBREAKER
Risk Assessment Score 5: Highly aggressive and extremely dangerous. Will seek out human targets to cause extreme injury or death. Priority destruction over all other threats highly recommended.

Despite stiff competition, Shipbreakers are hands down the most dangerous species of the Shipwreck Class. These ghosts move far below the ocean’s surface where even modern radars have difficult detecting them. Due to the extreme depth at which they stalk the surface, it’s believed that they actually feel miniscule vibrations in the water that alert them to the presence of ships in their vicinity; once they’ve honed in on a human vessel, they follow it for a time, and then attack from below with devastating force. The crystalline horn and spines on their back are more than capable of piercing a ship’s hull, but what’s even more frightening is their inexplicable ability to leech the very light out of their prey. A blackout onboard is almost always the immediate harbinger of an attack, and it’s only at this point that the ghost’s illumination gives its presence away- far too late to avoid or escape. Thankfully, Shipbreakers seem to vastly prefer the colder water around the poles, but incident reports in much warmer waters are starting to rise. It’s speculated that the severely decreased amount of ships in their usual territory has pressed them to start migrating into more ship-dense areas for prey, a pattern that the world at large is still unprepared to deal with.

(description edited and expanded by :usermedik:)