A clearer illustration of the beast Stranger and their xen, Venohaze, are in a tussle with. I wanted to design a beast with a simple base body that was further fleshed out with mods of some sort. I'd imagine a jockey tight on resources would opt to assemble their xen piece-by-piece as they accumulated the things they'd need to bring about their vision, verses culturing/converting/etc a xen from scratch all at once.