Official art of a swarm of nanyds.
Nanyds were mutated creatures that could be found in the Garil Desert. They were flying creatures and travelled through the air in swarms of ten to thirty. Although fairly harmless on their own, the combined strength of nanyd swarm could be a threat to humans. Amongst the swarm there was a larger queen nanyd which was uniquely identified by its red colour, as opposed to the yellowish colour of the regular nanyds. When Edge encountered enemy swarms of nanyds in Panzer Dragoon Saga, Gash told him this information, so it appears that the Seekers had encountered these creatures before. By individually targeting and destroying the queen nanyd with Edge’s gun, the swarm would be overwhelmed by chaotic tendencies and scatter. This was a more efficient way of ending the conflict than destroying the nanyds individually or with the dragon’s lock on lasers. The nanyds would fight to the death to defend the swarm’s queen, but with the queen defeated they would join another swarm.
Nanyds could also be found surrounding larger mutated monsters called pludgers. According to the defeated enemy data record for the pludger they “employ” nanyds to clean up after them, although this might not meant to be taken literally. Nanyds are scavengers and so would often stay close to larger predators such as the pludger in anticipation for a kill to be made. They would then scavenge from the remains of the larger predator’s kill.