"My son died on Omicron Theta. He was sixteen when the colony was attacked. That is the reason I have become an expert on the Crystalline Entity. I have spent my life studying it, tracking it and hoping one day to find it. And if I learn you have been helping that thing in any way whatsoever, I will see to it that you are disassembled piece by piece!" - Doctor Kila Marr informing Data of her motivations for studying, and hating, the Crystalline Entity The creature known simply as the Crystalline Entity is a space-faring organism of terrifying power. With a vast, intricate and stunningly beautiful form crackling with energy, the Crystalline Entity is completely unlike anything encountered before, even among the list of strange and exotic space-faring life forms studied by the Federation. Much of the intrigue surrounding the Crystalline Entity lies in its utter mysteriousness. Years pass between encounters - very little is known about it in general, and absolutely nothing is known about its origins. What has been observed, however, is utterly terrifying. The Crystalline Entity appears to feed on electromagnetic energy, specifically that generated by biological life-forms, and possesses the ability to convert living material to energy it can consume. Over the course of days or even hours, the Entity can strip entire worlds of life, leaving nothing, not even bacteria remaining. For all the horror attributed to the Crystalline Entity, there is no malice or evil intent behind its actions. Likened to a whale of Earth's oceans consuming plankton or cuttlefish, the Crystalline Entity is essentially an animal acting on the instinctive need to feed. Of course, this is cold comfort to those who have lost friends and loved ones to the Entity's hunger. While an initial attempt to communicate with the only known specimen of these unique creatures ended in disaster, there are undoubtedly others of its kind still wandering the reaches of the galaxy. They are highly dangerous.