Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a Sithspawn that can take the form of objects
- Image Credit: http://kuueater.tumblr.com/post/178452608068( the other place I was finding the image was a meme generator)
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Shi'ido
- Name: Qitculea - Sith for Pummel
- Designation: Semi-sentient
- Homeworld: Bastion
- Language: No spoken language, can understand the Sith language
- Average Lifespan: 50 years
- Estimated Population: Scattered
- Description: Generally the creatures take the shape of inanimate objects, such as books, chests, holocrons, and other various items of import. Their true form is an amorphous mass that can shift and change into various different shapes.
- Breathes: Type I and II
- Average height of adults: Varies depending on the object they are impersonating, normal form is about a meter tall
- Average length of adults: Varies depending on the object they are impersonating, normal form is about half a meter
- Skin color: In their natural state, they have an off-white coloration
- Hair color: No hair
- Distinctions: Besides their ability to shift shapes into different objects, the distinct traits of each member of the species can vary depending on the object they are impersonating. Bioluminescent growths to simulate electronics, skin can look and feel different such as wood, metal, stone, etc. The arms they form, however, generally appear as two muscular humanoid arms based on their creator's own physique.
- Races: No other races
- Strengths:
- The Qitculea have the ability, thanks to the original Shi'ido specimens that created them, to shapeshift. However, unlike the original specimens, the Qitculea have perfected the ability to become an inanimate object they see or are ordered to become. They will look like the object, feel and weigh like the object, and even pretend to activate like the object by using a form of bioluminescence to pretend to be electronics or other light producing sources.
- When approached by an unauthorized being, such as a potential thief, the Qitculea will form a powerful set of limbs when the potential victim is within arms reach, demonstrating strength twice that of a Wookiee, and they will attempt to beat the victim to death.
- The Qitculea are extremely loyal to whichever Sith they imprint upon, done when a Sith feeds them a drop of their own blood and will accept any command given to them. They will also not harm those their master has shown them to be friendlies, such as their own acolytes, servants, and superiors, and when a certain phrase is uttered in the Sith language to placate them.
- Weaknesses:
- While they have the ability to shapeshift, a powerful electric current will force them into their natural form and they will be completely defenseless.
- Powerful applications of the light side will force them back into their natural state, and most likely kill them
- The Qitculea are not very durable creatures, and if someone can get free of the arms before they are grabbed or punched, a blaster, a lightsaber, and other common weaponry can easily kill them
- Diet: Carnivore
- Communication: They cannot speak, but they can understand the Sith language
- Technology level: No technology level
- Religion/Beliefs: No religion or belief system
- General behavior: The creatures are generally docile, remaining in the shape their masters have commanded them to take, whether it be something mundane like a book or table, or something of high value such as a holocron, priceless treasures, or art. When approached by someone that is not their master, or something their master has instructed them to expect, they will form a powerful set of arms and attempt to grapple the intruders. They will proceed to viciously beat, in any way they can, the victim and once dead, the victim is consumed by the creature in its natural state... and then it goes back to docilely sitting as an urn or whatever shape it was before.
The idea that would become the Qitculea came from the Emperor [member="Darth Carnifex"] himself, his demands being a creature that the Sith might use to lay traps within ruins and other places Jedi and other enemies of the Sith might frequent for lost treasures. The Lady of Secrets decided, as a test for some of her younger alchemists, to have them create several different varieties for the Emperor to select for mass creation. They were given a list of criteria to meet, and enough Shi'ido specimens, cloned in Spaarti labs, to work with.
When the specimens were created, Taeli sent word to the Emperor that several creatures had been created and were awaiting word on which he desired more of. Taeli herself was rather proud of the work done by a Falleen alchemist named Yaala Gygax within her service. The monster was quick, small, and could become any object it saw swiftly. It had proven to be aggressive, and Yaala had given it a reproduction system through fission once it absorbed the blood of a victim.
The Emperor arrived... and while he admired several of the designs the students presented, including Yaala's... to utter bafflement of Taeli and the other senior alchemists present... he chose the work of a Houk alchemist named Bruc Morg. Morg had created something to the specifications given, but he had made it so its preferred method of killing was creating two powerful and muscular limbs, with the strength of twice a Wookiee, and then beating the victim to death.
When Taeli asked the Emperor later about the decision, she only received the response, "Those arms could put a Jedi through a table... and I want to see that."
Would hate to stumble into one when I break into TSE's library 
