Other Space Kaiden
Better than other-other space Kaiden
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(Epic Games)
Name:
Ghashthran
Designation:
Semi-Sentient
Homeworld:
Gratos
Language:
Can be trained to understand basic commands (any language)
Average Lifespan:
13 years
Estimated Population:
2.3 Billion (throughout all 4 Graug colonies + Gratos)
Average height of adults:
2.3 feet
Average length of adults:
2.5 feet
Skin color:
Dark Grey-Green
Hair color:
None
Distinctions:
- Strong teeth that secrete acid (capable of crushing Durasteel)
- Two stomachs, one for digestion and another for breaking down materials such as durasteel (which is expelled back through poors in the skin)
- No eyes
- Hard shell on back capable of resisting blaster bolt strikes (Armor Rating 6)
- Hunts is packs or swarms
- Often are bread with bombs molded into their shells
- Their clawed hands can merge together to form spiked ends or seperate to form hands
Breathes:
Type I
Strengths:
- Due to their long lives spent in the darkness underground or in the thick jungles of Gratos, the species has evolved without eyes. Instead, much like Miraluka, the Ghashthran utilize force-sense to navigate their surroundings. This power evolved alonside their predatory nature, giving their senses acute senseitivty to dark and lightside force signatures; allowing them to track force-sensetives for miles. Graug often train them to hunt the most powerful force user in the area, making them fantastic blood hounds.
- The teeth of the Ghashthran are made out of corrosion resistant bones that are capable of eathing through most metals given enough time, if not through simply crushing and tearing it, then by the acid that secrets through the pours of the teeth to weaken it over time. Not only this, but the creatures have two stomachs; one for digesting food and the other for breaking down minerals such as metal alloys. This evolved because, like most things on Gratos, burrowing under the earth is a necessary survival tactic for the species. However, Gratos' surface is rich with hard alloys and thus the species needed a way to dispose of metals they ate through effectivly. All metals ingested into the second stomach are eventually dispelled as ooze through the poors found throughout the hide of the animal. This ooze then works as a type of cooling mechanism to regulate the creature's body heat.
- The size of the creature makes it easy for the beasts to hide and tuck away in small spaces. A pack or swarm of Ghashthran could easily infiltrate the air or sewage system of a building, city or ship.
- The hard shell on the back of the Ghashthran slowly grows as time goes on. It will even grown around obstructions in its path, sometimes causing Ghashthran to absorb minerals and other items into their shells. The Graug have since learned how to use this for military gain, strapping bombs to the beasts at birth and forcing their shells to grow around the device; creating living bombs.
Weaknesses:
- Lack of eyesight is a blessing in some places and a curse in others. Due to their lack of sight, the Ghashthran must rely on their smell to pick out creatures with low force signatures. Vong and vongshaped individuals are impossible for the Ghashthran to sense and thus they would need to sniff out such a victim; which is a near impossible task in a densly crowded area or with proper precaution taken to mask ones scent. This means that non-force users are far harder to detect with force sense for a Ghashthran and force-deads can be made impossible to find with any of the beasts senses; save for running head-first into them.
- The Ghashthran lack physical strength and must rely on pack numbers to take down a target. A single Ghashtran, while it could chew through metal, eat weapons and snap a hand clean off, is ultimatly little threat against a trained soldier. However, a pack of ten or twenty is a serious challenge and much more dangerous. Without numbers or a bomb strapped to them (which would in turn kill them anyway) a single Ghashthran is little threat.
- The Ghashthran are fast, skittering creatures but lack the same durable hide as the Graug themselves. While a Graug could take several blaster or slug hits naturally, a Ghashthran is lucky to survive one or two.
Races:
None
Diet:
Meat of most kinds
Metal accidentally introduced into the digestive track is usually lethal
Most vegitation will make the creature sick
Communication:
Small ticking noises made with their teeth that display emotion and intent to others of their species
History:
The Ghashthran evolved on Gratos in the thick jungles, rarely seeing the light of day due to the sky-obscurring canopy. Thusly, the creatures had a distinct lack for eyes and evolved to utilize the natural darkside force signature of Gratos. In the early stages of Graug evolution the species was deeply feared as it was not uncommong for swarms of Ghashthran to sweep across a Graug village and decimate it within a matter of minutes. To counter this, The Graug were forced to build their villages far from the jungles for much of their early development.
It wasn't until the Iron Age that Graug discovered how to tame the beasts in small numbers. At this point, however, they did not serve a combat roll and were merely used for construction. Their abillity to get into small spaces and chew through metals was highly saught after and near priceless on underground building projects before the domestication of the Blukthran (or blood spiders that are still used today). It wasn't until the time of the Graug cleansing war that these lowly creatures finally saw a use in combat. In a technique thought of by the Imperial Clan, young Ghashthran were strapped with explosives and sent into enemy camps and hordes; detonating by the hundreds for critical damage.
After their more than successful run in combat during the Cleansing War, Ghashthran quickly earned the name that has been bestowed upon them. They are now bred in captivity by the millions by The Graug to be used as little more than living ordinance. While some still do find use as construction equipment or torture devices, these rolls have long since been passed to other creatures domesticated by The Graug.
Intent:
Fleshing out The Graug and their planet more while creating cool war beasts to use in threads!
