Mimic

Mimic also known as Typhon Cacoplasmus by its scientific name is a hostile Typhon encountered on Talos-1 during Prey (2017).

Overview
Mimic is small, arachnid Typhon, which can camouflage itself to look like ordinary objects in the environment be it office chair or garbage can. Mimics are very agile, capable to quickly jump from wall to wall. They kill their victims by tightly wrapping its appendages around the body and then ramming one of the appendages down the victim's throat, rapidly devouring all of their flesh and then using said biomass to undergo fission, splitting into four new Mimics. Morgan can obtain Mimics mimicking power through neuromods. In-game, the mimics create a fear of any object in a room. The fear of a mimic appearing out of nowhere gives the game the ability to make silly jumpscares. (EX: When a trashcan rolls down the stairs and the player hits it with a wrench/ shoots it with a gun only to find out it is a real trashcan, and not a mimic. The same thing happened to Markiplier, a internet celebrity.)

The variant Greater Mimic has that ability to turn into more complex objects like Turrets or Operators, these mimic facsimiles of actual machines will be fully operational, turrets firing and operators floating around.

TranStar scientists have no idea how they transform with theories ranging from it retreating into alternate dimensions and displacing an item from that dimension to make it looked like it shapeshifted, that the shapeshifting is simply the Mimic emitting a field that convinces organisms it is shapeshifted, that it changes its own molecular structure at will, or they just think that it is magic.

Design
Mimic looks like four legged arachnid, made entirely of black smoke-like substance not unlike the headcrabs from Half-life 2.

Strategy
The Psychoscope is able to detect a mimic when it has assumed the form of an item. Use this to check the area for mimics before advancing.

The Mimic's strategy revolves around ambush and strength in numbers, as the most numerous type of Typhon organism it's not uncommon to find several Mimic's in a single area. In the absence of a viable target they prefer to assume the form of a inanimate object for the purpose of lying in wait for one to appear. The first thing that Morgan needs to remember is that Mimics can only assume the form of a object that is already present, so if they see more than one of the same object in a odd place then their best option is to try to eliminate both objects at once.

The Mimic will attempt to scare Morgan, causing them to waste valuable ammunition or stamina in a panic but if they're able to remain calm then they aren't much of a threat. Mimic's require a living organism to reproduce, so if one such organism is nearby then it might be best to eliminate that organism first, or at the very least keep any Mimics in the area away from them, in order to prevent them from being able to reproduce.

Trivia

 * Mimic is the first Typhon discovered by humans.
 * Mimic has some resemblance to Mimics from Edge of Tomorrow (2014).
 * Mimics resemble headcrabs from the Half-Life series.