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Approved Species Kraujas Dtirsina - Blood Crystal

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
  • Name: Kraujas Dtirsina
  • Designation: Non-sentient
  • Homeworld: Kessel
  • Language: No actual language
  • Average Lifespan: 3 years
  • Estimated Population: Rare
  • Description: At a glance, this species of energy spider has been completely overgrown with a reddish-black crystal. Crystal covers its entire body, and the blades on its limbs have morphed into extremely sharp red crystals.
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
  • Breathes: Type I
  • Average height of adults: 3 meters
  • Average length of adults: 2.5 meters
  • Skin color: Reddish-black
  • Hair color: No hair
  • Distinctions: Besides the crystal that has overgrown the creature's body, the most distinctive features are its multiple limbs, each tipped with an extremely sharp crystal blade. Females have six legs along with a larger abdomen while males have eight legs and have an extra set of small mandibles. Eyes glow red from the infusion of the dark side within the creature, giving it a menacing appearance.
  • Races: No other races
  • Strengths:
  1. Much like the creature they were before, the Kraujas Dtirsina feed upon energy. Blaster weapons are utterly useless against them as they will just consume the energy. In addition, with the infusion of dark side energy from the Creeping Lignan and alchemical meddling from the Lady of Secrets, the Kraujas Dtirsina have gained a potent version of Force Drain.
  2. While the Creeping Lignan would normally freeze the creature in place soon after reaching the stage of covering the body completely, the Lady of Secrets and her alchemists have forced the change into a closer symbiosis. The crystal will stop growing as long as it receives a constant supply of energy. This has given the Kraujas Dtirsina a strong crystalline armor and extremely sharp crystal blades.
  3. Due to the Creeping Lignan infestation in their bodies, the creatures have greatly enhanced strength, capable of flipping a speeder or even a light tank.
  4. Much like the base creature, the Kraujas Dtirsina can still spin webs provided it consumes enough rock and silica. However, because of the symbiosis with the Creeping Lignan, the webs are no longer glitterstim spice. Instead, the webbing it can use to cocoon prey and form its lairs is a sticky version of Creeping Lignan that can be harvested and refined.
  5. If a victim is cocooned by the creature's Creeping Lignan infused webbing, the dust of the Creeping Lignan will enter the victim and start growing within them, assuming they live long enough.
  • Weaknesses:
  1. The creature still has an aversion to light, and while it no longer has glitterstim in its body to activate, it will flee from anything brighter than a glow lamp or lightsaber.
  2. If the creature does not feed upon enough energy, the Creeping Lignan covering its body will rapidly harden and it will reach the final stage of infestation, becoming little more than a statue of crystal.
  3. While blaster weapons are ineffective against the creature, ballistic weapons such as a slugthrower or mass driver can and will break through its crystal armor and can injure or kill the creature.
  4. Force Light and other direct applications of the light side can severely harm or injure these creatures.
  5. A curious side effect to the deeper symbiosis forced on the Kraujas Dtirsina, if they are attacked by a sonic weapon, they will immediately shatter into pieces of crystal.
CULTURE
  • Diet: Electrical energy, Force Energy, Rock and Silica
  • Communication: While they have no language of their own, they communicate with others of their kind through unsettling chittering. They can understand commands given in High Sith.
  • Technology level: No technology level
  • Religion/Beliefs: No religion or belief system
  • General behavior: Kraujas Dtirsina are generally solitary creatures, except during mating season. They tend to the darker tunnels, spinning their lairs with their Creeping Lignan infused webbing and hunting for prey to consume and entrap within cocoons. Once prey is caught, the spiders will keep the subject alive, feeding off their bio-electrical and Force energy but never actually killing them. Order of Shadows researchers suspect this is because the spiders know the cocooned subjects have been infested with Creeping Lignan themselves due to fine crystals within the webbing. The spiders are also fiercely protective of their territory, to the point where Sith Beastmasters are required to accompany teams sent down to collect more of the Creeping Lignan for experimentation.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION

The Kraujas Dtirsina began as a further experiment into the original energy spiders that were subjected to Creeping Lignan infestation. The original spiders were only able to survive for a few weeks at best before becoming statues of Creeping Lignan crystals, but they had served their purpose as an initial source of the substance for the Order of Shadows to experiment with.

Having received the first reports, the Lady of Secrets, Taeli Raaf, ordered further experiments be done on both the energy spiders and the imprisoned subjects. Taeli personally began overseeing work on the energy spiders, desiring a way to alter the symbiotic relationship between the crystals and the host. Using Sith alchemy, she began altering that relationship, deepening it and changing it so that the crystal would not finish the final steps of the process, i.e. turning the spider into a statue, but would stop once it had covered the body if the spider was able to feed on enough energy.

To help the new creature, dubbed the Kraujas Dtirsina or Blood Crystal in High Sith, Taeli gifted it with the ability to feed on the Force and life energies of a victim, in addition to its ability to feed on electrical and plasma energy. She noted in her observations on the first subject of her alterations that it had developed a sense of preservation when it came to its victims, wrapping them in a cocoon of reddish-black webbing and then feeding on the subject in all ways right up to, but never crossing, the point of death. They would even give the subject time to recover from the ordeal.

Taeli suspected that the spider would do this because the trapped sentient was also infested with Creeping Lignan crystals due to a fine crystal powder within the webbing. The experiments were duplicated, and while they number only a few dozen currently, and are kept within the dark tunnels below the secret Order of Shadows facility on Kessel so Creeping Lignan can be harvested, Taeli suspects they are the key to further experiments with the substance.
 
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