Bug fighter

"Slowly the Bug fighters descended. It was easy to see where they'd gotten their nickname. They were slightly larger than the Andalite fighter and shaped like legless cockroaches. There were small windows like eyes on the forward-thrust head of the bug. And on either side of the head were two very long, very sharp, serrated spears."

―Jake

A Bug fighter is a small Yeerk spacecraft that is piloted by one Hork-Bajir and one Taxxon. They resemble cockroaches, hence the name, are about as big as a school bus, and have two long serrated spears on their sides that point forward which are actually Dracon beam emitters. The ships can be modified to travel underwater.

History

Creation

"We suspect that they have built fourteen fighter craft, based on a new design but similar in capabilities to your own Andalite fighters. These fighters are armed with two Dracon beam weapons, a blending of Andalite shredder technology with some Ongachic particle-wave technology. [...] Forty thousand Hork-Bajir hosts, maybe twelve of their new Bug fighters up and flying... that's what we call them."

―Dak Hamee to Alloran-Semitur-Corrass

In 1968, after conquering the Hork-Bajir homeworld, the Yeerks began mining, using their newfound knowledge to create Dracon beams, Bug fighters and Blade ships, replacing the Ongachic, Hawjabran, and Andalite spacecraft they had stolen.

Usage

"Bug fighters are the smallest of the Yeerk ships. They aren't much bigger than a school bus. They have a cowled, insectlike look, except that on either side there are very long, serrated spears pointing forward. So they look a little like a cockroach holding two spears."

―Marco

To be added

Gallery

Blade ship, bug fighter, and Hork-Bajir from the Animorphs for Gameboy color game

A Bug fighter flies overhead Marco morphing wolf in an illustration for one of the Animorphs Jigsaw Puzzles.

Bug fighter schematics

Yeerk bug fighter illustration from the cover of an Antioch Animorphs Journal