THE UNDEFEATED
- Intent: To bring the Dreddikkast Beast up to date within the Chaos Galaxy.
- Image Credit: Midjourney & Headers courtesy of
Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
- Role: A war mount and companion beast.
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Embedded
- Age: Sixty
- Force Sensitivity: Force User
- Species: Valliphicarus/Errindak ancestor
- Appearance: The Dreddikkast is a remnant of a long-lost species predating the Valliphicarus and Erindak native to the Draemidus system. A miasma of black carapace and long tendril wings gilded with sharp rivets. Its torso, surrounded by arms large and small, its brow crowned with jagged horns and a heavy jaw dotted with craning mandibles. A facade for a face, goading foes to attack this hardened brow. Black hidden eyes dot the body and limbs of the Dredd, its true mouth hidden behind its facetious face. Its visage alone is impossibly black, driving the unworthy insane with its presence alone.
- Name: The Dreddikkast
- Loyalties: Tathra Khaeus
- Personality: The Dreddikast is deathly silent, and calm until it must release its ferocity. Its malevolence sits deep, chambered within its skulking blackness. A lust for blood and fear waiting to be unleashed. Stubborn, tough, and bloodthirsty.
- Combat Function: Combat Mount
- Combat Capability: The Dredd is equal parts a precise and high-speed mount and can assist with the directing of other beasts, and empower Draelvasier warriors in battle. The Dreddikkast is also armed with many serrated talons, capable of severing unshielded vessels into pieces. Furthermore, the Dredd can release strikes of ionic red plasma from its mouth. Its 'dragonfire'. The Dredd can also absorb energies such as geomagnetic storms, solar winds and lightning to empower its dragonfire.
- Defenses: Extremely resistant scales of black armour, and force defences against telepathic attacks
- Force Abilities: Battle Meditation, Precognition, Force Scream, Telepath, Force Drain
- Role: Personal Mount
- Size: Large [326m wing span, 200m torsal length]
- Weight: 300 metric tons
- Mount Experience/Training: Elite
- Maneuverability: Extremely agile at lower speeds
- Speed: Mach 0.65 - This requires the Dredd to focus its wings and arms into a focal point, turning into a large shredding bullet rather than a mass of tendrils.
- Locomotion: The Dredd moves by manipulating its torsal body via its main four arms and tail [as seen in the picture] but can also use its innumerable arms and tendrils of varying sizes to navigate. Therefore, the Dredd can operate omnidirectionally in any environment.
- Passenger Capacity: A dozen
- Cargo Capacity: 100tons
- Incredible Speed and agility
- Hidden beak/weak point
- Omnidirectional movement
- Strong
- Intelligent
- Powerful force abilities
- Dragonfire
- Omnidirectional eyesight
Weaknesses:
- Volatile
- Telepathic hubris
- Dependent on its four arms
- Overtly Hostile
- Its beak is an extreme weak point
- Eyes across its body can easily be damaged to blind or hurt the Dredd
- Softer underbelly
- Maneuverability is hampered severely in enclosed spaces
- Last of its kind
The Dreddikkast was saved from a dying hatchery of a long-dead species on one of Draemidus Prime's moons by the Titan, Tathra Khaeus. It is the last of its kind, born into the heart of the Bryn'adul Empire. The Dredd's intelligence was evident early on. The Chieftain enlisted their best hunters and Shamans in training the Dredd, the beast watched and mimicked, eventually able to mimic the force abilities of the Shamans. The Dredd continued to grow, responding to telepathic commands and the use of the war-whistle by Draelvasier Shamans. Even being able to match their frequency. Still, it was unruly and hostile, impatient. No single Shaman even Primarchs past and future of the time couldn't conquer the Dredd. Only Tathra Khaeus, the first face the Dredd saw was able to bring the beast to heel as it grew and grew endlessly. By age seven, the Dredd was a war beast fully grown or so the Draelvasier believed. The Dredd became symbolic of the Titan's presence on the battlefield, spurring other beasts and Bryn'adul soldiers on the battlefield with its battle meditation. The Dreddikkast was formidable, capable of dueling Destroyers, Cruisers, and Fighters. It served as a precise instrument of Tathra's will or an encumbering presence against his foes.
When the Bryn'adul reached their apex, no one beast was known more than the Dredd as a legend, an inspiration. A sign of victory at hand. Indeed, the legendary serpent Hadad was more feared, a carnivorous beast, a whirlwind of destruction only barely directed against their enemies. But the Dredd, it inspired and brought forth the God-Warrior, the Titan. A herald of victory, its disappearance was an omen.
When the Civil war erupted over Kardun, the Dreddikkast served the Titan loyally until the fateful battle of Mount Kyradis - where the Dredd and Titan upon its back fought Hadad, the world cracking Servitor. Hadad died and the Dredd was fatefully wounded, never to be seen again. Until now.
As Tathra Khaeus returns the Dredd is reclaimed.
