Akestos
Surge Lord
Intent: Exploding Acidic Balls | Hieeeeya | The Value of Ewoks
Image Credit: Monster Vault | Video: Baneling Starcraft | Custom Text
Canon: Centax Purifier | Tirafaraleen Gas | Ewoks
Links: [member="The Hive Mind"] | Akestos | [member="Kylraya"] | SwarmSurge | The Swarm | The Surge
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Ewokamite aka Ewokkazi
Designation: Non-Sentient
Origins: The Hive Mind, also known as the Swarm Mind when speaking collectively.
Average Lifespan: 5
Estimated Population: Inter-Planetary
Description: One meter in Diameter Rolling Balls, or Skittering Spider Creatures. Green acidic sacks across their entire black and green, or orange and red body. They move fast, faster than almost any Hive creature and often ahead of the Surge, or just within the front ranks of drones. Sometimes heard to make a shrieking Hieeeeya sound before soon exploding in a glorious shower of purifying liquid and gas. They have sharp jaws and sharp claws, but rarely are these used against threats.
PHYSICAL INFORMATIONBreathes: Type IV Environments or Better
Average Height of Adults: 1.2 Meter | 3.9 Feet
Average Length of Adults: 1.2 Meter | 3.9 Feet
Skin color: Lime Green, Dark Green and Sometimes as with nearly all Hive Creatures in Red or Orange shades.
Hair color: None
Distinctions: Ewok combined with the Tyrant DNA. This causes a volatile mix of spider and a surging maniac. Designed for only one thing. Obliterating a threat usually at the front of the main Hive Surge. The Surge Ewokkazi are especially volatile little blighters, rolling like a blur toward their victims before showering them in Centax Purifier to eradicate the threats. They are not harmful to the Hive, a bio-engineered weapon that is quite devastating if they are allowed to reach a target. Thankfully it's not that hard to stop when you see it coming if you are paying attention and checking your corners, watching your back. They do not breed naturally, thank the force, bred only in Hive Breeding chambers.
Races: Ewokamite: Surge Ewokkazi | Swarm Ewokkemi
Force Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
Strengths:
- Very Fast Rolling. Fast Jumping or Moving on four legs over ceilings, walls and open space.
- Deadly when they explode in a biological acidic shower and gas cloud. The Centax Purifier released eats through any Non-Hive metal and living tissue.
- Highly resistant to acid and biological warfare, of all the Hive species this is one of the most resistant.
- Highly adaptive to environments, pathogens, cures, unstable and dangerous DNA that will evolve into other species.
- Higheeeee Ya! Volatile when struck. Their acid sacks especially so.
- Not tough. Continuous Blasterfire, AOE weapons, or just Accurate Shooters. Hit it a few times with anything and it's going to splatter. Even a badly trained drunk stormtrooper can take this one.
- If not part of the Hive Mind. This creature is as unpredictable as they come. Prone to making small nests in trees and hitching a ride aboard unsuspecting ships or speeders. It will go anywhere. The more spider-like Ewokkemi variation especially likes spinning annoying lime green webs around the Hive or other structures.
- The mutations this species goes through make it unreliable. The DNA is by its nature in a state of flux.
Diet: Omnivore preferring smaller animals but can live off hive fed nutrients alone. Allergic to Ewoks, and will detonate early upon coming into contact with one.
Communication: Acid Signs, Body Language, Sight. Hisses, clicks and roars. The Hive's Mind, The Swarm's Will.
Technology level: None Existant.
Religion/Beliefs: The Swarms Will, Exist. The Surge Impulse, Expand.
General behavior: Be a general nuisance. Roll toward threats and explode. Nest in webs in the hive. Mutate and adapt to environments.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Ewok DNA combined with the Tyrant DNA caused explosions. Quite literally in the case of One Hive which is now an acidic cloud and crater where once there was life. Like all things, the Hive adapted, it changed things and got the balance right. The Swarm Ewokkemi are the first subspecies of this creature, sometimes found spinning webs and nesting in areas of the Hive. Most, however, are Surge Ewokkazi, little more than rolling Kamakazi balls heading straight for their targets to explode in a chemical shower of liquid and gas.
Endor proved a useful field trip for the swarm, not the great feasting it had hoped for, the DNA it was chasing even evaded it completely. The lush world of Endor, however, was nice pickings for its scouts and seeders over time, with smaller visits and more subtle approaches. Taking what DNA it could as its own and leaving the rest. The Ewoks provided resilient threats when the Hive visited them, so much so the greater Swarm's Will decided to integrate them into the Hive in larger numbers.
Like all DNA it is uncertain what use it will be at first, if at all. Though the Ewok DNA was first thought of as a mistake. The Hive was able to integrate it into the Tyrants DNA, finding some good matches and a specific use. About the time the Centax Purifier was finally stabilized and under the Swarm's will, this species seemed to be the perfect method of delivering the result. Face first. Known to many as Ewokamite.