Laira Darkhold
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AZURE AQUADON
SPECIES INFORMATION
Designation: Non-sentient
Homeworld: Manaan
Also found on
Average Length of Adults: 50 Meters
Skin color: Blue, Grey, Beige
Hair color: None
Breathes: Type 1; Aquatic
Strengths:
The large spines on its back conduct electricity and store it, as a form of natural electromagnetic transformers, that are activated by a voluntary chemical released by the creature expelling built up bio-electrical energy in an weak omni-directional stun burst that causes a minor disruption of electronics. It uses this tactic normally to stun groups of fish allowing it to feed upon smaller prey that could otherwise avoid it. Against larger prey a different biochemical directs the electrical charge up the creature’s spine and expelled as a targeted as an electrical bolt from the horns on the creature's brow. This bolt is capable of stunning even an enraged bull rancor for several seconds, allowing the Aquadon to attack while its prey is unable to defend itself. Its spines are known to absorb electricity and store it, effectively making the creature immune to stun blasts and electrical trauma.
Its jaws are very powerful, able to crush bone and metals, while its mouth is lined with dozens of teeth designed to allow the Aquadon to latch onto prey and hold on while it turns in a death roll or coils itself around the prey animal. Even vehicle armor should fear the creature's jaws as it tears and twists limbs off prey and walkers alike.
Unlike most other creatures that developed on a completely oceanic world, Aquadons are semi-amphibious able to breath through the use of relatively small lungs, or through the use of gills in water. This allows the Aquadon to survive temporarily on land, though it does require an aquatic or swamp-like environment to survive long periods of time.
Like most reptiles, an Aquadon never stops growing throughout its lifetime, which means older animals are generally larger than younger animals. Also factored into this growth rate is abundance of food, a healthy individual grows faster than a malnourished one. As they get older, their color patterns become darker with age, their scales become harder and more durable, their teeth continue to grow, and the spines on their back grow with additional spines growing up out of the skin around the back, along the tail, and neck meaning that the older the beast, the more dangerous and more resilient. With the discovery of a few black and dark blue Aquadons of immense proportions living deep in the ocean near volcanic vents, the Obsidian Aquadons are believed to be very old, very well fed Aquadons, though it is unknown whether this is true or not.
Armor Ratings:
Diet: Carnivorous
Finds Jelly Fish Poisons interact with its stomach acid negatively causing it to become sick until the jelly fish is fully digested or expelled from the stomach.
The Aquadon prefers larger prey, such as sharks, whaladons, colo claw fish, opee sea killers and the like, but is more than willing to eat anything it can get its teeth around. Even something as small as a trout, if it is noticed could be a potential meal.
Communication: Vocal growls and grunts and Body Language
Culture: Non-Sentient, however they are known to be intelligent enough to set traps and hide in places that disrupt technology, indicating a level of intelligence beyond a beast.
Technology level: None
DESCRIPTION
General behavior:
Aquadons are dangerous, aggressive, territorial beasts, known for attacking each other and even larger predators that enter their space. They relentless hunters and will continue fighting through broken and lost limbs if necessary, however they are very intelligent. It is unlikely normal bait tactics would work on them given their keen senses and intelligence.
When hunting, they are known to swim blindingly fast, attack prey like a torpedo gliding through the water, attacking with a stunning burst of electricity right before contact, dazing their prey and allowing them to latch onto a weak spot with their very powerful jaws. Following this they will constrict around prey and squeeze it, using their strong forearms to slash and tear at their prey until it dies. Or begin a death roll in which while latched onto a neck or limb attempting to sever the limb or break the neck.
The beast is territorial, having a specific nesting area where they sleep, breed, and lay eggs, normally an underwater cavern, a small cove just big enough for them, or something of the like. If a creature enters this area and attracts the leviathan’s attention, it will be warned off with a threat display of the beast's hood and a small electrical pulse. If the creature does not heed this warning it will be attacked fiercely until one or both are dead. Most of the time, anything the size of a trout or catfish is beneath its notice when nesting unless being particularly disruptive, but anything human sized will provoke a response.
As a large predator, it has a large hunting ground and will sometimes spend days roaming the waters it has claimed for prey, occasionally roaming outside its claimed territory in search of food. While at home in the water, the beasts make use of gills and lungs allowing them to survive in water and on land, though they are much slower on lang and more vulnerable, less agile. Sometimes they have been observed sunning on sandy beaches.
During mating season a female will attract a male through a pheromone release, the two will mate, and then part ways. If two males encounter each other on the way to a female, they will attack each other and attempt to display dominance by using their hood and electrical discharges on one another.
A female gives birth to live young, and will protect them for only a short time, normally about a year before they go their own way, about five meters long at this point. Regardless of relation, after leaving the nest, they will not be able to return without invoking the mother’s territorial wrath, and are on their own for the rest of their lives.
After about ten years the creature reaches adolescence, and is about twenty meters long. During this stage of the life cycle they develop the ability to emit the omni-directional bio-electrical pulses, which they use to stun schools of fish in order to feed quickly and efficiently.
When the creature reaches age thirty, they are considered adults, having fully developed to about fifty meters in length. At this point the males have grown a pair of ridges over their eyes that appear like short horns, and females begin going through mating cycles, of about once every two or three years.
As they grow older, their color pattern becomes darker and darker, leading to the belief that Obsidian Aquadons are ancient creatures that have lived longer than the average life span, preferring to rest near thermal vents on ocean floors.
History:
Dwelling in tropical waters and preferring solitary nature, the territorial creature has been transported to many aquatic worlds shortly after the Gulag Plague disappeared. Zoos attempted to house them, but it was discovered they would attack during feeding time, and would damage their enclosures in escape attempts. After a short time in captivity, the creatures would literally kill themselves attempting escape. That, and their painful electrical pulses, they are no longer kept in zoos.
In the wild, they are rarely observed, being aggressive enough to attack boats and ships they come across, and their electrical disruption has been known to leave even some small unshielded corvette sized warships (Aquatic) vulnerable enough to be physically destroyed by the creatures. Sailors reported that without working electronics such as blasters and cannons, even for a short time, the beasts are very very dangerous and they are unable to respond quickly enough.
What few reports there are of these creatures all imply exercising caution if approaching, and one Sith Lord indicated he was unable to control one of the beasts as it continued to attack his underlings. No Jedi have yet to approach one.
Notable Player-Characters: None
Intent: Its a Hunting creature, designed to be opposition of a group of hunters, with some neat loots for folks, and some bragging rights.
REFERENCES
SPECIES INFORMATION
Designation: Non-sentient
Homeworld: Manaan
Also found on
- Mon Calamari
- Maramere
- Kamino
- Naboo
Average Length of Adults: 50 Meters
Skin color: Blue, Grey, Beige
Hair color: None
Breathes: Type 1; Aquatic
Strengths:
- Large Size: The size of the creature makes it extraordinarily strong and resilient, difficult to kill and able to crush buildings and vehicles under its bulk. Getting stepped on or swatted with its tail is a bad idea for a tank, much less a person.
- Crushing Jaws: In its mouth are rows of strong, crocodilian teeth, able to crush and chew through bone and metal alike.
- Powerful Senses: It is an alpha predator, and its senses in water are very powerful. Its sense of smell is akin to that of a shark able to smell a single drop of blood from kilometers away. Its sense of touch can feel large distortions in the water easily, and its sight underwater is very prominent, allowing it to hunt both large and small prey.
- Bio-Electric Pulse: The beast has a very interesting bio-electromagnetic field, not only assisting in hiding it from long range sensors such as orbital life form detectors, but can also be used as sort of an Electrical Pulse similar to a weak area of effect stun blast, interfering with electronics for several seconds. This can be condensed to a stunning electrical bolt against larger or more dangerous prey, stunning them and rendering even very large animals unconscious for a few seconds.
- Extreme Cold: Despite being aquatic, the Aquadon is not used to cold temperatures, preferring warm tropical waters, and is lethargic in cold water, and will sometimes hibernate and go dormant if exposed to arctic waters.
- Sensory Overload: As with most things that can hear very well, loud noises can be disorienting, as can bright lights due to its eyes. Additionally its nasal cavity is particularly sensitive to damage.
- Solitary Predator: With the exception of mating season, Aquadons do not abide each other's presence. It doesn’t make friends, it can’t be domesticated, and no amount of animal friendship or affinity is going to take anything smaller than it off the menu. If you are in its way, in its house, or big enough to be noticed, you are food.
- Reptilian, Aquatic, Predator, Cold-Blood, Territorial
The large spines on its back conduct electricity and store it, as a form of natural electromagnetic transformers, that are activated by a voluntary chemical released by the creature expelling built up bio-electrical energy in an weak omni-directional stun burst that causes a minor disruption of electronics. It uses this tactic normally to stun groups of fish allowing it to feed upon smaller prey that could otherwise avoid it. Against larger prey a different biochemical directs the electrical charge up the creature’s spine and expelled as a targeted as an electrical bolt from the horns on the creature's brow. This bolt is capable of stunning even an enraged bull rancor for several seconds, allowing the Aquadon to attack while its prey is unable to defend itself. Its spines are known to absorb electricity and store it, effectively making the creature immune to stun blasts and electrical trauma.
Its jaws are very powerful, able to crush bone and metals, while its mouth is lined with dozens of teeth designed to allow the Aquadon to latch onto prey and hold on while it turns in a death roll or coils itself around the prey animal. Even vehicle armor should fear the creature's jaws as it tears and twists limbs off prey and walkers alike.
Unlike most other creatures that developed on a completely oceanic world, Aquadons are semi-amphibious able to breath through the use of relatively small lungs, or through the use of gills in water. This allows the Aquadon to survive temporarily on land, though it does require an aquatic or swamp-like environment to survive long periods of time.
Like most reptiles, an Aquadon never stops growing throughout its lifetime, which means older animals are generally larger than younger animals. Also factored into this growth rate is abundance of food, a healthy individual grows faster than a malnourished one. As they get older, their color patterns become darker with age, their scales become harder and more durable, their teeth continue to grow, and the spines on their back grow with additional spines growing up out of the skin around the back, along the tail, and neck meaning that the older the beast, the more dangerous and more resilient. With the discovery of a few black and dark blue Aquadons of immense proportions living deep in the ocean near volcanic vents, the Obsidian Aquadons are believed to be very old, very well fed Aquadons, though it is unknown whether this is true or not.
Armor Ratings:
- Azure Aquadon: 7 (Scales)/6 (Underbelly)
- Obsidian Aquadon: 8 (Scales)/7 (Underbelly)
- Young: 1-10 Years
- Adolescent: 10-30 Years
- Adult: 30-150 Years
- Known for being larger (Up to 75 Meters Long) and more aggressive with a darker black coloring along with more powerful bio-electrical pulses.
- Obsidian Aquadons have a tougher hide than normal (Akin to armorweave and metals with partial or minor lightsaber resistance)
- Obsidians reside in deeper, darker waters near volcanic vents in the sea floor.
- They are believed to be very old Aquadons
Diet: Carnivorous
Finds Jelly Fish Poisons interact with its stomach acid negatively causing it to become sick until the jelly fish is fully digested or expelled from the stomach.
The Aquadon prefers larger prey, such as sharks, whaladons, colo claw fish, opee sea killers and the like, but is more than willing to eat anything it can get its teeth around. Even something as small as a trout, if it is noticed could be a potential meal.
Communication: Vocal growls and grunts and Body Language
Culture: Non-Sentient, however they are known to be intelligent enough to set traps and hide in places that disrupt technology, indicating a level of intelligence beyond a beast.
Technology level: None
DESCRIPTION
General behavior:
Aquadons are dangerous, aggressive, territorial beasts, known for attacking each other and even larger predators that enter their space. They relentless hunters and will continue fighting through broken and lost limbs if necessary, however they are very intelligent. It is unlikely normal bait tactics would work on them given their keen senses and intelligence.
When hunting, they are known to swim blindingly fast, attack prey like a torpedo gliding through the water, attacking with a stunning burst of electricity right before contact, dazing their prey and allowing them to latch onto a weak spot with their very powerful jaws. Following this they will constrict around prey and squeeze it, using their strong forearms to slash and tear at their prey until it dies. Or begin a death roll in which while latched onto a neck or limb attempting to sever the limb or break the neck.
The beast is territorial, having a specific nesting area where they sleep, breed, and lay eggs, normally an underwater cavern, a small cove just big enough for them, or something of the like. If a creature enters this area and attracts the leviathan’s attention, it will be warned off with a threat display of the beast's hood and a small electrical pulse. If the creature does not heed this warning it will be attacked fiercely until one or both are dead. Most of the time, anything the size of a trout or catfish is beneath its notice when nesting unless being particularly disruptive, but anything human sized will provoke a response.
As a large predator, it has a large hunting ground and will sometimes spend days roaming the waters it has claimed for prey, occasionally roaming outside its claimed territory in search of food. While at home in the water, the beasts make use of gills and lungs allowing them to survive in water and on land, though they are much slower on lang and more vulnerable, less agile. Sometimes they have been observed sunning on sandy beaches.
During mating season a female will attract a male through a pheromone release, the two will mate, and then part ways. If two males encounter each other on the way to a female, they will attack each other and attempt to display dominance by using their hood and electrical discharges on one another.
A female gives birth to live young, and will protect them for only a short time, normally about a year before they go their own way, about five meters long at this point. Regardless of relation, after leaving the nest, they will not be able to return without invoking the mother’s territorial wrath, and are on their own for the rest of their lives.
After about ten years the creature reaches adolescence, and is about twenty meters long. During this stage of the life cycle they develop the ability to emit the omni-directional bio-electrical pulses, which they use to stun schools of fish in order to feed quickly and efficiently.
When the creature reaches age thirty, they are considered adults, having fully developed to about fifty meters in length. At this point the males have grown a pair of ridges over their eyes that appear like short horns, and females begin going through mating cycles, of about once every two or three years.
As they grow older, their color pattern becomes darker and darker, leading to the belief that Obsidian Aquadons are ancient creatures that have lived longer than the average life span, preferring to rest near thermal vents on ocean floors.
History:
Dwelling in tropical waters and preferring solitary nature, the territorial creature has been transported to many aquatic worlds shortly after the Gulag Plague disappeared. Zoos attempted to house them, but it was discovered they would attack during feeding time, and would damage their enclosures in escape attempts. After a short time in captivity, the creatures would literally kill themselves attempting escape. That, and their painful electrical pulses, they are no longer kept in zoos.
In the wild, they are rarely observed, being aggressive enough to attack boats and ships they come across, and their electrical disruption has been known to leave even some small unshielded corvette sized warships (Aquatic) vulnerable enough to be physically destroyed by the creatures. Sailors reported that without working electronics such as blasters and cannons, even for a short time, the beasts are very very dangerous and they are unable to respond quickly enough.
What few reports there are of these creatures all imply exercising caution if approaching, and one Sith Lord indicated he was unable to control one of the beasts as it continued to attack his underlings. No Jedi have yet to approach one.
Notable Player-Characters: None
Intent: Its a Hunting creature, designed to be opposition of a group of hunters, with some neat loots for folks, and some bragging rights.
REFERENCES
