Darth Voracitos
Chaos-God of Gluttony
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Make a dinky species stub into a kick-ass CHAD creature.
- Image Credit: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/X14yR
- Canon: Yes
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- Name: Bildog
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Origins: Chad
- Average Lifespan: 400-800+ years
- Estimated Population: Planetary (A Large Concentration on a single world or system, rarely found off-world)
- Description: Gigantic herd animals that possess a hide that act as a replenishable food resource by smaller creatures
- Breathes: Water (Occasionally inhales Clouzon-36 from an ancient meteorite located at a popular breeding site)
- Average Height of Adults: 15 meters
- Average Length of Adults: 150 meters
- Skin color: Brown/Grey
- Hair color: N/a
- Distinctions: These creatures are notable due to their ability to generate edible fleshy protrusions on their hide, where thousands of smaller species and young offspring can subsist on their flesh, which regrows at remarkable rates. It additionally provides an excellent lure for animals the Bildog consider prey. These protrusions usually grow around their mouth, forming a beard-like structure, making it easier and advantageous to eat prey too boldly approaching them to subsist off of their flesh.
- Races: Northern Bildog, Southern Bildog (slight phenotype variations between the two, divided in the summer by the steaming equatorial regions)
- Force Sensitivity: Low (Some members are, but many are not)
- Traveling Ecosystem - Provides a food source to a small ecosystem of animals naturally without injury to the Bildog, and lures prey close to its mouth with little effort.
- Supreme Size and Numbers - Bildogs possess very few natural predators, due in part to a truly enormous size compared to many of the animals on Chad, and also due to the numbers of a Bildog herd preventing potential predators from seriously threatening the Bildog population.
- Durable - Being so large, and literally possessing the ability to be eaten alive and continue to survive as an evolutionary trait, it comes as no surprise it is actually notoriously difficult to kill a Bildog. Their major organs are buried under mountains of regenerating flesh and are known to regenerate in the rare case they are damaged. Even when the organs are fatally destroyed, the Bildog are known to continue surviving without a majority of them for decades before finding a final place of rest. It is often said, a Bildog only dies when it is well and ready to.
- Slow - From a large energy requirement, a large size, and a great number of other creatures depending on it (from its own herd to the stowaways in its Beard), the Bildog cannot afford to be very fast, instead relying on its strengths to compensate.
- Lack of Instinctual Awareness - Being the biggest living thing on the planet, the Bildog possess no natural predators of any kind. They are the top of the food chain and have stayed this way for a very long time. This means, however, that slowly over the generations they have relied less and less on their perceptual awareness to the point that if a dangerous situation were to pass them by, they are unlikely to react at all. If an invasive species that can challenge the Bildog shows up on Chad, the Bildog will be unlikely to fight back, lacking a sense of urgency or fear.
- Diet: Omnivore
- Communication: Rumbling Roars
- Technology level: N/a
- Religion/Beliefs: N/a
- General behavior: The Bildog are generally even-tempered creatures with little natural aggression. They travel in extended family groups of herds that possess several generations, given the lengthy average age of a Bildog. There are many sites around the world known for Bildog migration, and mating seasons, which only occur every other decade for an individual Bildog. One strange facet of behavior stems from an ancient meteorite containing massive quantities of the Clouzon-36 gas leaking out in the ocean has an adverse effect on the Bildog. They are able to sniff out a trace amount of the substance from tens to hundreds of kilometers away and appear to have an unnatural attraction to it. In fact, because of this meteorite, they have created a regular migration to the site for an unknown number of Bildog generations. Unfortunately, since it is located at the equator, sometimes in the summer months when the water begins to boil, the gases begin to leak out at even greater rates, attracting Bildog from all over the planet. While the naive Bildog youth are largely unaffected by the near boiling heat of the equator thanks to their size and durability lessening the impact for the duration of their stay, the temperatures are often too much for the ecosystems they support and the prey they depend on for sustenance. Once these youths are abandoned, the Bildog will soon find themselves without food or helpful symbiotes. Even if they turn back, they will find their health deteriorated, and lifespan shortened.
There is not much to say about the history of the Bildog, except they have lived on Chad for a very long time, and that their meats have been a staple of the primitive economy on the planet. It is possible though that they share an ancestry with species existing elsewhere, or otherwise evolved in such ways as to escape the planet, but all such theories are purely speculation due to their similar appearances and strange inclination towards the exotic non-native gas spewing out of a massive meteorite site that has existed for millions of years. No serious scientific tests have ever been conducted to confirm or disprove claims of similar ancestry to the space-bound Purrgil.