The First Daughter
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To develop a powerful Sithspawn that can be used to decimate the Light
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- Canon: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Name: Behemoth
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Homeworld: [SIZE=9pt]Valrar [/SIZE]
- Language: No language besides roars
- Average Lifespan: 80 years
- Estimated Population: Rare
- Description: A hulking mass of flesh, armor, and many many many blades and spikes, the Behemoth towers above any battlefield on its four legs, looking much like a rancor abomination birthed from nightmares.
- Breathes: Type I
- Average height of adults: 15 meters
- Average length of adults: N/A
- Skin color: Purple and brown
- Hair color: No hair
- Distinctions: The most unique trait for the Behemoth are the massive scythe like blades it has, blades of tearing through most anything in its path. Males will typically have four blades while females will only have two. Besides that, just their sheer size and amount of armor is enough to distinguish them apart from other creatures.
- Races: No other races currently
- Strengths:
- Alchemized scythe blades are able to cut through just about anything (barring phrik and other restricted materials) and through the use of alchemy, they are honed to a monomolecular edge and cannot break unless subjected to Force Light.
- The Behemoth's hide and armor plating have been boosted through genetic manipulation and alchemy that blasters and slugthrowers are near useless in penetrating it. Even lightsabers will have difficulty in breaking through the armor plating. Turbolasers and mass drivers can penetrate the armor and hide however, along with concentrated artillery bombardment.
- The Behemoth can build up momentum as it runs, and given its size and weight, it can barrel through most hardened positions it faces.
- The Behemoth has augmented muscles to give it immense strength.
- Weaknesses:
- Much like an actual rancor, the Behemoth's eyes and mouth are key points to target as they are not protected by the creature's thick hide or armor.
- If the beast loses one of its limbs, it will no longer be able to move as its weight will horrifically effect its balance and it will essentially lay there until it dies.
- Once it has built momentum, it cannot change direction. Attempting to do so will cause the Behemoth to lose its balance and smash to the ground.
- Its eyesight is rather poor, while not blind, it only can see things directly in front of it without moving its head. It has no peripheral vision, and it is completely blind in the dark.
- Corrosive weapons have a unique effect on the creature's armor, if even a single drop of acid lands on its armor, it will trigger an intensely fast chemical reaction that turns the Behemoth into nothing more than sludge.
- Its own scythes can cut through its skin and armor like warm butter.
- Another peculiar weakness the Behemoth has is its fear of water. If it even sees any amount of water bigger than a puddle, it will go on a frenzy to try and run away from it.
- Diet: Strictly a carnivore
- Communication: Roars
- Technology level: No technology level
- Religion/Beliefs: No religion or belief system
- General behavior: The Behemoth's general behavior is one that has been manipulated through both alchemy and genetic tampering to be nothing but pure aggression and rage. Designed to be something that could through swaths of men or really anything standing in its way, anything else was deemed unimportant to Eldaah or her Master. Females will only accept mates after they have witnessed it kill and devour another of their kind, and even then, the male must also overcome the strength of the female or be killed itself. It also has the peculiar habit of sharpening its scythe blades on anything it can find, even though this is unnecessary due to the alchemization process.
To create a culmination of the frontline Sithspawn that Eldaah and her Master had been developing, they wanted to create something that could eviscerate anything in its path. As a base template, she and her Master collected several large specimens of bull rancors from Felucia before spiriting them away to their facility on Valrar. Once there, Eldaah's Master began the process of warping and twisting the bull rancor specimens, going through several alchemization processes to create the Behemoth.
To go about accomplishing her main goal, Eldaah's Master began to encourage the growth of bone-like scythe blades, using alchemy to make them unbreakable except when Force Light is applied to them and honing a monomolecular edge to the four bone scythes on males, and the two on females. The scythe blades are designed to cut through just about anything, such as durasteel and its derivatives like duracrete, quadanium steel, alusteel, but it cannot get through phrik or beskar (or other restricted materials).
Eldaah's Master also twisted and built up the creature's hide, forming a natural armor that was far tougher than anything she had created before. The hide and armor of the Behemoth can easily shrug off blasters and slugthrowers, and can take multiple blows from lightsabers before it can be penetrated (cannot be used as armor for PC or NPC). However, a turbolaser, mass driver, or a concentrated artillery barrage can break through the armor. The toughness of the hide and armor does not carry over to the flesh of its mouth, leaving it a key weak zone, along with the creature's exposed eyes. As the hide, armor, and alchemized bone scythes are extremely heavy, the Behemoth's musculature was enhanced to give it immense strength, both to support the weight and to crush anything beneath its four feet.
The Behemoth is truly a terror once it starts charging at position, building momentum until it can smash through any hardened position to deal with the enemy therein or around it, given the size and weight behind it. However, it cannot changed direction when charging like this, and if it attempts to do so, it will crash from lost of balance. Balance is a key thing for the creature as if it loses one of its limbs, it will collapse and be unable to move ever again.
Eldaah's Master did note a few peculiar behavioral traits that she planned to deal with in the future, such as the Behemoth having a great fear of any body of water larger than a puddle. The hypothesis was that the Behemoth, aware of its own weight, had some instinct that told it it would drown if it fell into water. Corrosive weaponry was observed to cause a very peculiar, and very alarming effect. If even a single drop of any corrosive acid lands on the armor, it will trigger a chemical reaction that will quickly reduce the Behemoth to an organic sludge. It was also observed during a forced mating process that the beast's scythes can cut through their armor and hide with extreme ease, so any weapons fashioned from such can easily cut through the creature.
The creature also has a few holdovers from when it was a rancor, mainly the poor eyesight. This was worsened to a degree as the creature has a narrow cone of vision, only being able to see things in front of it, with its peripheral vision being completely nonexistent. All in all, it would accomplish what her Master had set out to do, but there was room for greater augmentation in strains in the future.
