Agaran

Agarans are a species of parasitic fungi-like people. They originate from the same planet Florans come from, and evolved alongside them. They are less of a people, more so vessels for the Agaran fungi to spread. Due to this, Agarans are often treated as pests that should be shot upon sight.

It is believed that Agarans were created by fungi in an attempt to spread their influence. It is safe to say that this is the only reason why Agarans came into existence, as mere vessels by fungi to infest.

Agaran feed with other fungi, and can sypon minerals from the roots of plant life. They can also terraform fungi together to create buildings, weapons, and tools.

The Agaran language is a corrupted yet decipherable dialect of the language of the Florans.

Agarans live up to 70 GSY before expiring.

Conversion
They can convert other species into their own. Florans are particularly fluid to them, but they can convert nearly any other standard carbon water based species. They lack the ability to affect Avali, Shadow People, Novakids, Vitunnakians, and Slimes. In addition, while they can indeed grow over Glitch and robots, it is merely some fungi puppetting a robotic chassis.

This conversion process is said to take about six months. First the Agarans must somehow trap their target in a fungal pod, which requires several Agarans and/or fungal growths to create. This pod needs to be connected to enough nutrients as to not cause their target to die due to starvation. Over the months, the target's mind is slowly corrupted to match that of the Agarans. Then their DNA will be slowly converted to Agaran. After six months for Florans or a year for anything else, the newly formed Agaran will “hatch”. All of their previous memories are completely intact, but any will they used to have is replaced by the needs of their fungal overlords.

Awoken
Agarans that have managed to break from their hive mind are called "Awoken". Once they have reached this state, there is no way to rejoin with the hivemind. They still have their memories from their previous state intact. Most of the time, these Agarans are killed by their colonies essentially on sight.