LeechCraft

LeechCraft debut in Golden Son as sleek, rapid assault shuttles designed to ferry mixed-color boarding parties—Obsidians, Golds, and Grays—onto enemy starships to seize critical internal compartments during fleet actions. By Morning Star their portrayal shifts to emphasize raw functionality: compact, unlovely metal craft that melt through hull plating and flood vessels with up to fifty troops in a single deployment. Across the two books the craft evolve from agile tactical tools into brutal, purpose-built instruments of boarding warfare, reflecting the saga’s escalating scale of space combat and the Rising’s need for reliable ship-to-ship penetration.