>>5055772 (OP)
So. I land on this pretty nice planet, build a decent home inside one of the local dormant volcanos and just settle in for a few hundred thousand rotations around the local primary. Pretty comfy. Then I take a nap and the exterior of my home is CRAWLING with these things when I get up. They’re chopping up the garden, digging for heavy metals, even building nests. Long and short of it? Put down gluon traps. I know they make some of the bleeding hearts mad, but a good gluon trap will vaporize a whole herd of these things.