Rogue Mantles

Rogue Mantles are enormous creatures that reside within space, separate from their counterparts at the Swarmstar.

Background
Rogue mantles may be happened upon a further distance away from the swarmstar and even between or around other distant stars in the frigid void of outer space. Unlike those found in packs, however, the filaments found along the upper sides of rogue mantles have become twisted into a tangled mess, due to their being no single direction to attract them. Even so, moisture and even atmospheres can still be found on Rogue mantles, alongside a slight gravity field. Believe it or not, for those not orbiting around another star, a rogue mantle can also produce heat for its surface, though of a much colder variety than what the swarmstar pack experiences. Consequently, all of these factor do allow for live to still thrive on a mantle not orbiting a star.

Unsurprisingly, explorers of the night may chance upon rogue mantles with different kinds of creatures living upon them, all of which are adapted the cold and dark of space. Humans may also be among them, but they would've otherwise abandoned their hanging cities and instead thrive off of the slowly atrophying flesh of their mantles' upper sides.