Spinner

The Spinner is a Chimeran strain that appears in Resistance 2. "Experiment Documents" from the metastasis website reveals that they look like large, bloated insects, with heads that look remotely like the head from the Alien of the Alien movies. A boss known as the Mother spinner is apparently some sort of "queen" to these Chimera. This strain is most likely not created from human hosts, and instead may be created similarly to the Leapers of Resistance: Fall of Man.

The Spinners are the Chimera's new way of infecting human hosts and creating new Chimeran soldiers, lessening the Chimera's need of Conversion Centers. The Spinners are released from Spires, just like Crawlers, and move on to capture humans and spin them into cocoons-hence the name. From here, hosts are converted into Grims.