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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit the first technobeast Sithspawn created through Project Mekhis and the Gitaxias Nanospore.
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- Name: Mekhisian Laigrek
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Origins: Nar Shaddaa
- Average Lifespan: 75 Galactic Standard Years
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: For all outward appearances, a Mekhisian Laigrek appears to simply be a laigrek made of metal and could be mistaken for a droid modeled on the creature from Dantooine. However, the truth is the creature is the first in a new line of technobeasts created by the Order of Arcane Syn and their Cybergene Alchemists.
- Breathes: Due to their metallic/cybernetic nature, they do not require an atmosphere to survive.
- Average Height of Adults: 1.2 meters
- Average Length of Adults: 1.8 meters
- Skin color: Metallic silver to a metallic blue
- Hair color: No hair
- Distinctions: The most distinctive physical characteristics of the laigrek is the fact its whole body is formed from a metallic resin and armor plating, while its limbs appear to drip with droplets of oil along their edges. Besides these changes, they still remain recognizable as a laigrek from Dantooine.
- Races: No other races
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
- The original carapace of the laigrek has been mutated into an armor made of metallic resin that has the same strength and properties as the alloys forged into Sith swords. This gives the new technobeast an impressive durability for its size, able to take several small arms shots and little damage from physical weaponry. It can even take glancing blows from lightsabers.
- Each leg of the creature is honed into a serrated blade that can slice through standard armor materials. More insidiously, each blade secretes an oily ichor that contains the Gitaxias Nanospore that can infect those that the metallic creature wounds.
- The mutations from the nanospore have altered the internal organs of the liagrek that produced its flame-like breath attack, mutating them to produce instead an oily acid spray that slowly burns on contact against skin, cloth, and standard metals used in armor. The spray also contains the Gitaxias Nanospore and can infect a victim as the acid burns into their body.
- While the carapace of the laigrek can sustain several shots from small arms and physical weaponry such as vibroblades, heavier weapons can pierce right through its armor and sustained blows from a lightsaber can still cut through it.
- Extreme applications of heat, such as from a plasma weapon or sustained flames from a flamethrower can cause severe damage to the laigrek. Flames will also temporarily halt the ability of its bladed limbs to secrete the infectious mutagen that coat them.
- Diet: Due to their metallic/cybernetic nature, the laigrek does not require sustenance to function. However, it will still follow its previous carnivore predilections, but any meat consumed in this way is altered into more of the mutagen coursing through its body.
- Communication: Metallic-sounding screeches, chirps, and roars. It also understands and follows commands given in the Sith language and through the direction of a Force user trained in mechu-deru.
- Technology level: No technology level
- Religion/Beliefs: No religion or belief system
- General behavior:
- When left on their devices, as observed by the alchemists in charge of Project Mekhis, the laigreks remain deadly hunters and predators. Working in small groups to hunt and patrol their territory, in this case their enclosures within the Order's complex on the Smuggler's Moon or in the lowest levels for field tests, the creatures prefer pack ambush tactics that severely wound victims and prey. The alchemists believe that part of the mutations to their brains by the nanospore have given them a desire to injure, rather than outright kill if they can so they spread the nanospore to their victims, although they have been observed occasionally eating their kills even though they no longer need to feed to survive.
With the creation of the new nanospores by the Cybergene Alchemists on Nar Shaddaa, permission was granted by Darth Arcanix to begin experiments under the codename Project Mekhis to create the new series of technobeast Sithspawn. At this early stage of the project, it is the desire of the Lady of Secrets and Hyson Whita as project overseer to keep the creation of these new technobeasts obscure from possible interference from the Jedi. To that end, the beginning experiments would need sentient subjects that would not be missed, not hard to come by in the undercity of Nar Shaddaa, or creatures that could prove useful if subjected to the transformations.
A hive of laigreks from Dantooine were quietly captured and smuggled to the moon for experimentation as the first subjects, with the alchemists injecting the Gitaxias Nanospore into the insect-like creatures. The changes were rapid as the mutagen overwhelmed the creature, replacing their skin with a metallic resin similar to the alloys used in the forging of Sith swords, albeit without the full resistances created during the forging process. Organs and bodily fluids were mutated into cybernetic facsimiles, with the blood of the creatures now being the mutagenic ichor that carried the nanospore. The ichor containing the nanospore also altered the bladed limbs of the creatures, enhancing the serration of the limbs and secreting an ichor that contained the mutagenic nanospores within it to infect those that suffered wounds from the creatures.
Several of the creatures subjected to the transformation were of the deadly laigrek variety, and it was observed that the chemicals they used to create their flame-like breath attacks were also mutated by the nanospore into an acid-like version of itself that could both burn and infect victims. When the transformations were complete, the alchemists through mechu-deru imprinted an understanding of the Sith language into the cybernetic brains of the laigreks to allow orders to be given in an easier fashion if a Sith did not have access to mechu-deru and desired to utilize the creatures.
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