OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To further flesh out my Planet sub and to add some fun creatures.
- Image Credit: Irenbee 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Tygerii
- Name: Tyrant Dragon
- Designation: Semi-Sentient
- Origins: Tygeria
- Average Lifespan: Around 370 years.
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: Tyrant Dragons are the dominant life form on Tygeria. They have two wings which act as foreward legs, and two smaller legs in the back. Much of their appearance can change, from horn patterns, different coloration and patterns, frills, spiked tail, etc due to centuries of the Tygerii breeding them. Their metal scales and inferno breath make them quite the challenge, even to modern equipment.
- Breathes: Type 1
- Average Height of Adults: 10 meters
- Average Length of Adults: 32 meters (It should be stated that they can grow bigger or smaller than this, as their size is determined by how much they are fed as well as how much room they have to roam/grow, like a gold fish)
- Skin color: Common scale coloration are green, red, tan/cream, black, white. Other coloration are possible but uncommon simply due to the amount of selective breeding the Tygerii have pushed onto the species.
- Hair color: N/A
- Distinctions:
The biggest distinction a Tyrant dragon has from most life in the galaxy is its ability to use metals in the formation of its scales. It can digest the hardiest of metals, melt them in its inferno of a stomach, and absorb them through special receivers that then distribute the metal, mixing it with keratin and hydrocarbons, before pushing the scale through the leathery skin to take its place on the dragons armor. Dragons who do not find metal are a sorry sight. Their scales are created just with keratin and hydrocarbons, making them significantly weaker, and incredibly deformed. Tygerii scientists have only recently just delved into the science of their scale creation, specifically how the metal is used to give these scales shape and smoothness. These Keratin and Hyrdocarbon scales made without metal are often jagged, and sometimes grow inward causing incredible pain. Should a dragon be found who has been mistreated so, it is common place to put the dragon out of its misery, or go through extensive surgery to remove each and every scale and start to supply the dragon with more metal than it realistically needs to try to compensate.
Tyrant dragons are also genderless, able to swap genetic make up through the consumption of other Tyrant Dragon eggs. This genetic information is housed in a sort of 'bank' within the Tyrant dragon's own inactive genes. These genes are then taken out of their own genome and implanted in an egg, fertilizing it. Extra inactive genes are even put inside an egg, meaning that Tyrant dragons who have never interacted with other Tyrant Dragons can still lay a few fertile eggs, even if these eggs won't have that same ability.
- Races: Tyrant Dragons are split up into a dozen or so races just by the type of metal they primarily eat. Those that eat lighter metals like Phrik or Aluminum are perfectly capable of flight with little problem, but those who devour heavier substances like lead or iron tend to have great difficulty flying, tending to mostly glide. The biggest race is a small group of Tyrant dragons that are amphibious, having developed the ability to hold their breath for long periods of time to swim through the ocean hunting large aquatic animals. These are simply called 'Aquatic Tyrant Dragons'.
- Force Sensitivity: All
- Fire Breath: Tyrant dragons have two chemicals in their body, that when mixed and exposed to oxygen produce a searing hot blue flame upwards of 1,426 Celsius.
- Metal Armor: The nature of the armor of a Tyrant Dragon means it is incredibly resistant to blasters, slug throwers, and most melee weapons.
- Force-Sense: Tyrant Dragons primarily use the force to hunt prey and navigate the world, progressively getting better at it throughout their lives.
- Blunt Force: Blunt force trauma can still do incredible damage to a Tyrant Dragon, especially if it is from a great fall.
- Toxins: Tyrant Dragons have very little defense against poisons and toxins, in the air or in consumables, making it one of their greatest weaknesses.
- Overheating: Tyrant Dragons cannot survive on volcanic or desert worlds due to their naturally high body temperature. They will simply overheat and die.
- Poor Vision: Ever since Tyrant Dragons began using the force to hunt, their reliance on their vision has slowly begun to suffer, their eyes only able to see black and whites and not even very well.
- Shiny Diet: Tyrant Dragons need incredible amounts of metal to keep developing their scales. Young dragons may be able to scavenge the older dragons shed scales, but eventually they will need to start finding pure sources of metal either in ores or already refined metals.
- Diet: Carnivore, metal doesn't give them nutrients.
- Communication: Grunts, Growls, Roars, the older Tyrant Dragons are able to communicate basic ideas via the force such as simple desires or emotions.
- Technology level: N/A
- Religion/Beliefs: N/A
- General behavior: Wild Tyrant Dragons are extremely territorial and reclusive, carving out huge swaths of land and hunting anything in it and fighting any Tyrant Dragon that may be trying to take their territory. The domesticated Tyrant Dragons on the other hand have a variety of personalities, from extremely social to solitary, yet few are intrinsically violent.
Tyrant Dragons have been the dominant species of Tygeria for centuries, having been so successful on the evolutionary food chain that in ancient history discovered by fossils and other methods, they would cause entire species to go extinct and resort to mass cannibalism. Yet this cycle changed when the Tygerii, out of pure dumb luck, found a few with a mutation that allowed them to imprint and bond with other species rather than just their own. Through what can only be described as conquest and mass culling of dragons without this gene, the entire species was changed to be able to be tamed and forced into docility. Yet this has not meant that the Tygerii have replaced them on the food chain, as a rogue dragon can still cause mass havoc and hundreds of lives are lost. Thus the Knights Vigilant were formed, who's primary goal outside of enforcing the law is the hunting and extermination of rogue dragons. They have been around since the early days of Oros' first Dominion, and have only refined their craft since then.
There has been recent debate as the Tygerii seek to colonize more than just their world if they should even bring Tyrant Dragons with them to other worlds. Their unique way of reproducing poses an intense problem, as only a dozen or so dragons or eggs of dragons that get misplaced can soon go feral, and bring up an entire population of feral dragons rather quickly in most habitats. Many Tygerii even claim that the Tyrant Dragons could one day be a blight on the galaxy and a threat to all civilized life. Other Tygerii claim that the Tyrant Dragon simply represents the indomitable will of the Tygerii people and that they will go where the dragons do.
More ideas of what they could look like (As long as it has a 'wyvern' body and not the traditional six limbed dragon)
