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- Name: Stalker
- Designation: Non-Sentient
- Homeworld: Rattatak
- Language: Growls, Hisses
- Average height of adults: 1.5 meters
- Average length of adults: 4.5 meters
- Skin color: Black
- Hair color: Black
- Breathes: Type I
- Strengths:
[+]Dead Mind: The Stalker for unknown reasons has a mind that is completely and totally untouchable by the force. When a mentalist reaches out to caress the Stalkers mind they find a void. This is clearly not a trick of being force dead as a Vong Biot would be, but instead a natural resistance to mental attacks or domination. The reason for this is unknown to Nemene, but is in fact quite simple. The Stalker is so driven and pushed by its natural instincts to hunt that other influences are blocked out almost completely, it is so voracious in its task that to most force users the Stalker seems dead. To Masters who have trained for years in beast mastery however there is a slight gap in the Stalkers mental void. With sufficient training and trial a Stalker can be controlled, though with difficulty.
[+]Enhanced Vornskr Attributes: Stalkers much like Verinth carry over a large amount of their Genetic Ancestors attributes. This means that they too hunt with the the capabilities of the force. Along with this their tail as well is filled with a dangerous paralytic agent and unlike the Verinth, Stalkers will utilize this at every chance they get, sometimes even harming themselves in order to do so. The tail however does not harm them with the paralytic, as they are completely immune. Instead in their tunnel vision to kill they end up whipping themselves with their tail instead of their prey, essentially just causing self harm.
- Weaknesses:
[-]Metabolism: Like the Verinth Stalkers have an extremely powerful and fast metabolism, in fact it is even faster than their cousins. In order to survive a Stalker must consume a size-able meal(about a human child worth of meat) every four hours, if it is not fed this the Stalker will begin to grow hungry, starving in only a 24 hour span if fed nothing at all. This starvation makes them incredibly easy to kill, once they begin to starve their movements slow, their muscles begin to atrophy and the venom on their tail becomes slightly less effective. These symptoms become worse and worse until the creature quite literally becomes nothing but skin and bones and eventually dies.
[-]Uncontrollable: The Stalker is completely and entirely uncontrollable. As stated before its mind is completely untouchable by the force, alongside this all means of training Stalkers through normal means have met with complete and utter failure. Stalkers are completely resistant to being whipped, punished, praised, or any normal training method used on a beast, their nature simply makes them impossible to control.
[-]Dumb: Stalkers are observably stupid. They are easy to trick and even easier to confuse by simple means. If one were capable of hiding themselves in the force for instant one would only have to hide themselves behind a corner in order to escape them. Of course if one cannot hide themselves in the force the Stalkers natural instinct will keep it hunting until its prey is dead, or somehow hides. It's sense in the force extends about fifty meters in a radius around the Stalker, escaping this is difficult but not impossible as getting it to trap itself beneath rocks, low over hangs, etc... is quite easy due to its mental capacity.
[-]Short Life Span: Like their Verinth cousins the Stalker is vulnerable to the same genetic defect of short life, with most only living 5-10 months if that.
- Distinctions:
The one thing that always gives away a Stalker however is the unique shape of its head. For some strange reason a Stalkers head is very un-Vornkr like. Instead of being in the shape of a cat is resembles far more fish like attributes. The reason for this is unknown, though Nemene suspects that it is due to the mutated creatures bone structure being shifted during the embryo stage so that the Stalker has an easier time consuming its brothers in the womb.
What triggers the mutation to begin is also unknown.
- Average Lifespan: 5-10 months
- Races: None
- Diet: Carnivore
- Communication: Hisses, Growls
- Culture: Mutant Culture.
- Technology level: Mutant Kitty Technology.
- General behavior:
Unlike Verinth's, Stalkers are creatures that are completely and entirely solo creatures. They do not work in packs and definitely do not work well with others. Stalkers are destructive mammals to the T. They will eat, drink, and kill anything that is around them. They seek out prey no matter the size and will attack anything that they can find.
Stalkers are generally uncooperative, stupid, and highly destructive. Their nature is such that no one can say a Stalker will ever be helpful to anything. All the creature wishes to do is destroy, even to the point of causing self harm.
This extends to all things, even their makers. Stalkers are uncooperative, threatening, and generally a pestilence on society. There is no training them, no teaching, no guiding. They will attempt to kill any and all who are around them, even their creator.
- History:
The Queen of Rattatak began with a large pool of creatures that she could breed, eventually she settled on one creature that was the perfect hunter of Jedi and Sith, the Vornskr. The irony of her hated of Kaine known as Darth Vornksr was not lost on her but she decided to ignore this and continue on anyway. Nemene took a couple of these beasts, buying them on the black market and bringing them back home to Rattatak.
Here she began the long work of learning everything and anything she could about the Vornksr. She dissected dozens of them down to the cell, took apart their brains, muscles and anything else until finally she completely mapped their genetic code. From there she began to play with their DNA, changing things slightly, adding attributes from other animals and splicing different things into Vornskr make-up. She would then use this new genetic code to create an embryo of her new creature and implant it into a female Vornskr.
She did this dozens of times until finally one of the Vornskr gave birth to a creature she dubbed the Verinth.
From there it was all trial and error in breeding more. She eventually managed to breed a second Verinth and from there she began the culling of an entire species. Finding that Verinth bred rather quickly and had fruitful litters was a delightful surprise, though up to a point. Around the sixth litter of Verinth that came into being Nemene found that something had gone horribly wrong in her machinations with Vornskr DNA.
For some Strange reason every so often one of the Verinth cubs would be horrible mutated, containing no fur, paler skin, and dozens of other mutations that were too horrid to describe.
Nemene documented these new creatures, dubbing them Stalkers. The Stalkers were wildly different than their Verinth brothers. Unlike Verinth, Stalkers were completely independent. They killed their brothers and sisters in the womb causing only the Stalker to survive. They would eat and kill anything and everything around them, they were wildly destructive and curiously their minds were complete blanks in the force. When Nemene had Evelynn try to control one of the creature it reacted poorly, lashing out and trying to kill the two sisters with all its might before eventually being killed by Nemene.
Though one in fifty Verinth turned out to be a failure Nemene still dubbed the experiment a success. Having created her own species of apex predators Nemene found herself well pleased and began a breeding program to encourage the creation of more Verinth hoping to eventually eek out their flaws and make them a true unique species in the galaxy.
Because of this the Verinth every so often produce a Stalker. The Stalkers are taken, brought to the pits and used there to fight gladiators and slave for grave entertainment. Though the Two Sisters have other things in mind for the beasts as well.
- Notable Player-Characters:...Really?
- Intent: To continue the expansion of creature Evelynn and Nemene utilize in both the Cauldron and outside in the galaxy as well as to utilize Nemene's knowledge in genetics and cloning.
