Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a Subsumed-class Rakghoul for use in aquatic locales
- Image Credit: http://resistance.wikia.com/wiki/Fury
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Rakghoul Elixir EX-324
- Name: Subsumed Cetus
- Designation: Sentient
- Homeworld: Mon Calamari
- Language: Sith, can understand Basic but cannot speak it
- Average Lifespan: 30 years
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: Subsumed Cetus are horrifying mutations, done through the new strain of the rakghoul plague by the Lady of Secrets. Glowing yellow eyes, enhanced biting jaws, pale skin, and extremely sharp fins denote the viciousness of the new monster from its original form
- Breathes: Breathes underwater only
- Average height of adults: N/A
- Average length of adults: 4 meters
- Skin color: Pale white to a sickly gray
- Hair color: No hair
- Distinctions: The most distinctive traits of the Subsumed Cetus are the glowing yellow eyes, their enhanced and infectious jaws and fins, and also the cybernetics grafted into their backs. Females will have an extra set of maneuvering fins while males have two large crests that run along their back parallel to the cybernetics
- Races: No other races
- Strengths:
- As part of the Subsumed strain of the rakghoul virus created by the Lady of Secrets, the Subsumed Cetus retain their sentience, albeit the inbred compulsion to be loyal to their Sith Masters and the dark side of the Force. They can learn and adapt as they hunt their former brethren.
- Just like the base rakghoul, the Subsumed Cetus are able to pass along their specific strain of the virus. If a victim survives a bite or being slashed by the extremely sharp fins of the monsters, they may become infected and fall into a coma soon after where they will be taken to a processing center to be fitted with the necessary cybernetics by the Subsumed Cetus themselves.
- The Subsumed Cetus, like their land cousins Ghouls, have been injected with the EX-324 serum. The serum has given their jaws and an extreme boost in biting power, being able to bite through durasteel. They also are able to swim incredibly fast due to their muscles being enhanced by the serum.
- Due to the EX-324 serum, they also have an enhanced healing factor, able to heal most non-lethal wounds in moments. They cannot regenerate limbs or wounds they prove fatal, however.
- The cybernetic pumps on the back of the creatures inject a supply of a synthetic version of the Flesh Eater elixir, increasing their aggression and bloodlust. The pumps also serve a secondary purpose of injecting a coolant into their bloodstream to prevent overheating from their rapid metabolism.
- Weaknesses:
- They have completely lost the ability to go on land, if they are forced to the surface, they will die in moments as they cannot breathe out of water.
- If the pumps on their back are damaged in any way, the coolant they need to survive will cease to enter their bloodstream and they will literally burn up from the inside out within moments, killing them.
- Due to a complication from the EX-324 serum, if the creatures come into contact with any organism carrying Yuuzhan Vong DNA, even if wounded by a Vong weapon, they will rapidly suffer cellular degeneration and become nothing more than a pile of organic goo and cybernetics.
- Because of the EX-324 serum enhancing their strength and healing factor, they have an increased metabolism. Not only do they need to consume twice as much as other beings, but their healing factor is not perfect. Repeated injuries will cause the wounds sustained to heal improperly, leading more to infected wounds and possible death.
- If an infected individual is able to be injected with bacta before they fall into the coma stage of infection, the plague will be cured. If they fall into the coma, complete submersion in a bacta tank with regular treatments of anti-virals can cure it. Once the transformation takes place, however, there is no going back.
- Force Light and other direct applications of the Light Side of the Force will wound or outright kill them.
- Diet: Carnivore
- Communication: Sith language or roars to intimidate their enemies, can understand Basic enough to accept commands issued by commanders
- Technology level: Galactic Standard
- Religion/Beliefs: Unlike their land brethren, the Subsumed Cetus had formed a religion centered on the worship of the Miri Kuiaisiri. The Subsumed Cetus respect the power and death the larger monster bring, offering them prepared sacrifices of captured Mon Calamari or Cetus that have fallen in grace in their society as a form of protection from being consumed by the monsters themselves.
- General behavior: Much like their land brethren, the Subsumed Cetus is focused around war and survival of the fittest. The creatures that have the highest body counts tend to be leaders of their communities, located in the darker parts of the underwater trenches of Mon Calamari. Unlike Subsumed Ghouls, Cetus are not sterile, with females laying clutches of eggs of the monsters. They are fiercely protective of their nests, attacking anything that draws near them. They also reproduce, like other rakghouls, by infecting other Mon Calamari with their plague, dragging them back to their lairs for processing if they are not outright killed.
As the Sith Empire brought its iron fist down upon the world of Mon Calamari, subjugating it, the Emperor decreed that Mon Calamari lives were forfeit and they were to be hunted down. The Lady of Secrets, however, requested live captives be brought to her for experimentation. While her Deep Leviathans were proving to be dangerous foes, she had grown curious about the effects her Subsumed strain of the rakghoul plague would have on the native population of the world.
The results were... pleasing to the Lady of Secrets. The captured Mon Calamari underwent horrific mutations from the virus, losing their ability to survive on land but becoming extremely effective predators for the waters of the galaxy. They still retained their sentience, although they were fully enslaved to the whims of the Sith and those they commanded, and the loss of their arms in the mutations forced them to adapt, eschewing the use of weapons in favor of their jaws and fins. The Lady of Secrets also had the subjects injected with the EX-324 serum and the synthetic Flesh Raider elixir, also giving them modified construction droids for use in their lairs and communities.
The new mutants were released back into the deeps of Mon Calamari, and they would lead the hunt for their former brothers and sisters. The will of the Emperor would continue, and if someone survived an attack from the new Subsumed Cetus, they would be dragged back into the darkness... only to emerge as a new member of the Subsumed.
