Nestene

"That thing is appallingly dangerous."

- The Doctor

Nestenes are ruthlessly aggressive intellegent alien lifeforms that can put life into anything made of plastic through the use of radio signals. Their appearance is usually in the form of a cephalopod, resembling and octopus. Nestenes usually make themselves in to a group mind, the Nestene Consciousness, so that they can control plastic.

They manifest themselves as a disembodied, mutually telepathic intelegence. When they require bodies, they make themselves bodies using plastic. Of all their creations, the Nestenes are most feared for their plastic automatons: the Autons.

''It may be that Nestenes can bring plastic to life or may possess plastic. If they can become a liquid form, they may be used to make Autons.''

During their first attempt at invading Earth, the Nestenes were able to travel through space in plastic meteorites, similar to the Krynoids whose pods are hurled into space by volcanic eruptions on thier planet. However, sometime circa 2005, the Nestenes aquired warp-shunt technology for travel between worlds.