While one may initially make the assumption that the Lk (pronounced simply as \ lk \, making it sound like "ulk") are potentially evolved from either a race of serpents or leeches, they are in fact evolved from saprotrophic fungal spores. These spores fed upon the remains of the then-rotting food stores of the ancient Precursors, possibly even the bodies of Precursors as well, assuming that the great race had perished and had not just transplanted their bodies somewhere else. This, combined with having evolved inside a Precursor base and thereby immediately possessing large quantities of their artifacts, they consider themselves the true heirs and inheritors of the Precursor legacy, and seek to control all artifacts of the long-lost species. They speak in a manner of hissed S's and roll