Station

After a Lorako gets too big even as a Carrier to move easily, they will circle their bodies into a loop like an Ouroboros, latch onto their own Tailflower, often impregnating themselves repeatedly in the process by gulping their own Lorako Semen by reflex and sensitivity during a rapid growth spurt, and transform into a fixed Station form.

Station form Lorako can only move via an energy-intensive FTL jump via their extremely massive Lorako Core s and the Flicker Drive s they contain.

Rarely seen and quite expensive in terms of resources and development time Stations will eventually grow even further, potentially forming more complex loops, floral spirals, dendritic forked structures and transform further into a Stargate form Lorako.

While never before seen and potentially mythical, it is said among Lorako that the longest lived among them will one day grow even further into a legendary living gigastructure called a Riftgate.