Coordinated for fauna.

[It's a fair enough point - the number of creatures makes this very odd for wildlife, in SecUnit's experience of being variously chewed on by local planetary hazards, though. It fires a spread of energy bursts into some of the slowly approaching creatures, falling a few steps back towards one of the nearby vehicles.]

There's a shield. Holding out may be the next option if killing a number of these things isn't sufficient to drive them off.