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now those last two are just a matter of not having observed them enough yet (they hang out half a kilometer down at shallowest!) and we expect they probably reproduce like some other Foraminifera where they use alternation of generations, but we currently don't know for sure.

Clearly it's a perfect chance to write a story about how they're actually biological resource miners sent to collect the volatiles from earth's oceans

after all, we can't find them in the fossil record (though there's theories that some other things we see might be very different ancestors of them), clearly they just showed up shortly before they were first discovered in the 1880s.

a deep sea submersible once collected a spatangoid urchin 3km down that was wearing a cloak of over 200 Xenophyophores. It is unknown if the urchin was specifically collecting them, or the Xenophyophores specifically sought out the urchin to grow on.

they're the dominant organism in parts of the ocean floor. It's been theorized that they are "ecosystem engineers": a creature that significantly impacts a habitat, such as how beavers significantly impact the flow of rivers with their dams.

BTW, did you know that over 50% of the earth's surface is Abyssal plain?

If they're invaders, they already won.