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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To update and upgrade a powerful mount made exclusively for Sith Lords and Ladies
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- Canon: N/A
- Links: Kakdijs Zuta Carnelian Dragon
- Name: Cirmuhai - Pandemic
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Origins: Amaltanna
- Average Lifespan: 70 Galactic Standard Years
- Estimated Population: Rare
- Description: The Cirmuhai are immense reptavian beasts, pitch black bodies with a thick leathery skin and massive wings, that are designed as a deadly mount and symbol of fear and death for the strongest Sith in the galaxy.
- Breathes: Type I and Type II
- Average Height of Adults: 14 meters
- Average Length of Adults: 18 meters
- Skin color: Black to a deep gray
- Hair color: No hair
- Distinctions: The most striking physical traits of the Cirmuhai are the massive wings that support its body while they are in flight, large jaws full of sharp teeth, and powerful legs that end in hooked talons useful for gripping their prey while in flight or tearing it apart.
- Races: No other races
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
- The Cirmuhai are powerful beasts of the skies, their massive wings allowing them to fly great distances and for extended periods of time without rest.
- Through the use of Sith Alchemy, the muscles of the beasts have been significantly augmented even beyond the original monster that they are an improvement of. It is not unheard of for the Cirmuhai to carry off bull rancors let alone the average rancor.
- The hide of Cirmuhai is incredibly tough due to the alchemy used in their creation, capable of taking blaster bolts and slugthrower attacks with ease. Lightsabers can pierce the hide, but it will take a few blows.
- An insidious carry over from the previous beasts, the Cirmuhai have access to a potent aura of Force Fear. Like a rolling black wave of paralytic horror, the Cirmuhai can emit their aura to keep their prey helpless before them.
- Seeing an opportunity to enhance the noxious breath of the Kakdjis Zuta, the Cirmuhai can unleash a wave of toxic gas from its maw that is on par with the Trauger Gas that can be found on Socorro. Yellow-green in color, the gas can kill in moments with symptoms ranging nausea, muscle impairment, respiratory failure, blistering skin, and organ failure. If subjected to water, the gas can become a corrosive acid.
- The Cirmuhai is gifted with powerful jaws filled with sharp alchemized teeth and their talons have equally been treated with alchemy to make them unbreakable and razor-sharp.
- Because of their strength and powerful wills, only Sith Lords and Ladies can hope to dominate these beasts while lesser dark siders will perish. However, once they do, they gain an immensely loyal beast and mount that will carry them into battle and protect their territory.
- The Cirmuhai's wing membrane, while powerful, are also rather thin. If they are damaged in combat, they will be unable to fly until the tears or wounds in the wings are healed. The membrane of the wings have not been toughened by alchemy as it would have made their density too great for flight without significant other alterations.
- While their aura of Force Fear is incredibly powerful, trained individuals or those with a powerful will can resist the effects.
- Likewise, their toxic breath might be a potent weapon, if someone is able to get out of the effected area or a breeze comes through and disrupts the cloud, it can be rather useless.
- An oddity, and irritation that it carried over for the Lady of Secrets, is the Cirmuhai have a discolored spot on their chests right where their heart is located. While not as thin as on the Kakdjis Zuta, this area is still vulnerable to harm from weaponry and can instantly kill the beast if struck.
- As with most Sithspawn, direct applications of the Light side of the Force, such as with Force Light, can injure or drive the creature off. One or a few applications won't kill it, but enough light side attacks will cripple it or kill it.
- The Cirmuhai's eyes are also a weak spot as they are not protected in anyway and their vision can be impeded immensely if they are subjected to a bright light suddenly. This vision impairment will last twice as long as normal for other beings subjected to it.
- Curiously, if attacked with a carbonite weapon, the Cirmuhai's skin will become extremely brittle that even someone touching it will cause it to split and wound the beast.
- Diet: Carnivore, it will devour any sort of meat placed before it.
- Communication: Screeches and shrieks, it can also understand commands given to it in the Sith language or telepathically by the Sith Lord or Lady that dominated it.
- Technology level: No technology level
- Religion/Beliefs: No religion or belief system
- General behavior: The Cirmuhai, even more so than their original progenitor Sithspawn species, were designed to be apex predators. Between their abilities and their sheer strength, the creatures have developed an extremely sadistic and arrogant behavior pattern. It does not fear anything it might encounter, and it takes pleasure in the terror it evokes in its prey, relishing with a primitive joy the pain and suffering it can cause. Like their progenitors, they are extremely territorial and solitary creatures while they are unbonded, staking large tracts of area in the mountains of Amaltanna and guarding it fiercely. However, once they have been dominated by a Sith Lord or Lady of sufficient ability, they become immensely protective of their masters. Utterly loyal, they will obey any command given to them and will ferry their masters to battle with no compunctions or guard their master's lands as jealously as their own territory.
As the Lady of Secrets continued her work in developing powerful Sithspawn for use by the Sith, she decided to revisit one of her more powerful creations: the Kakdjis Zuta. The beast was already a fearsome monster that was designed to be the personal mounts for Sith Lords and Ladies of the current Sith Empire, but the Lady of Secrets thought there were improvements that could be done on the original beasts.
Relocating the creation to the world of Amaltanna, the planet that played host to her primary research lab in Sith space, from Carnelion IV, Taeli and her alchemists began work on enhancing the Carnelion dragons that were imported to the world for the task. Dark rituals of Sith alchemy were applied to the creatures, warping and twisting their shapes into their new form. They were going to be larger than the original Kakdjis Zuta, their muscles even further enhanced than before. Taeli personally oversaw the alchemization of their flesh, fangs, and talons to ensure their strength and protection from injury and also was the one who gave the creatures their enhanced aura of Force Fear.
Between her alchemists and some of the scientists that served Taeli, a new noxious compound was created to replace the old toxic gas the creatures could expel. Moving away from the toxic mist of Carnelion IV as a base, the researchers created an organic compound that was based on the Trauger Gas of Socorro that the creatures could produce naturally from a new organ developed within their bodies. The new gas attack was proven to be far more potent than the original, pleasing their Sith master to no end. Once the new creatures were born from their alchemy chrysalis, the Lady of Secrets dubbed them the Cirmuhai, Pandemic in High Sith, and presented them to the Dark Lord of the Sith [member="Darth Carnifex"]
