The Rill, aka Banshees

I found this on Eroc's site:<br />http://worldoferoc.blogspot.com/p/star-frontiers.html<br />

Rill (aka Banshees)
<br /><br />The Rill are a strange hyper-space threat. Commonly referred to as Banshees by spacers because of the high pitched wailing they emit. These creatures are only encountered while traveling in hyper-space where they
latch onto the hull of a ship and tear their way inside attempting to devour any and all living organisms. Very few ships have escaped the attacks of a Rill and still much is unknown, however a defense for Rill attacks is being tested on many ships throughout the Frontier.

<br /><br />Spacer lore postulates that many ships that have been lost in hyper-space were actually victims of Rill attacks. Some even say the Rill drag the ships back to a hive that floats in hyper-space itself where hideous things are done to the surviving crew. None of this has ever been proven and the scientific community at large discounts this as nothing more than pure superstition.<img src="/files/u4436/rill1.jpg" alt="rill1.jpg" height="491" width="662" />