Once an alien from a mechanically crafty race, the Stranded Stryder is said to be a hybrid of the alien itself and the vehicle it became stranded with. Legend says it fused the craft to its own body as a means of survival from predators and eventually shaped it into a towering vessel of alien and machine that wanders looking for food to sustain it. There is speculation it is now so proportionately mechanical that it is no longer sentient. All attempts to communicate with it scare it away and it only attacks when cornered.