Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To enhance an older Sithspawn creation of the Lady of Secrets
- Image Credit: https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Lurker
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Festerer Sand Demon Vixus
- Name: Suppurater
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Origins: Valrar
- Average Lifespan: 20 Galactic Standard Years
- Estimated Population: Scattered
- Description: Larger than the original Festerer strain of Sithspawn, Suppuraters are an even more vicious looking creature than the original. More spikes, more blades, more chitin armor, more acid, and now having an additional weapon for use against the Sith's enemies, the creature is an improvement in every way.
- Breathes: Type I
- Average Height of Adults: 3.5 meters
- Average Length of Adults: 1.8 meters
- Skin color: Purple covered in a dark brown chitin
- Hair color: No hair
- Distinctions: The most distinctive physical traits for the Suppuraters are its eight bladed appendages (six legs and two smaller bladed limbs) that it uses to move, burrow into the ground, and slash and stab their prey. On top of that are the many spikes that sprout from the beast's body and its new tail-like appendage, but the last distinctive physical trait is the hidden weapon that lies within the spikes that line the front of the larger part of its body.
- Races: No other races
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
Strengths:
- Like its predecessor, the Suppurater has an extremely acidic saliva that it uses to help burrow into the ground or melt prey, even armored prey. The Lady of Secrets has enhanced the acidic qualities of the saliva to be able to start eating through tougher materials like beskar and phrik, although it does take longer to eat through such metals. The saliva can also be spewed forth in a streamed projectile attack.
- Much like the Festerers, Suppuraters when they burrow into the ground can incorporate minerals and biomass within their vicinity to repair damage to their chitin armor or wounds they have sustained. Their chitin has been enhanced even more to better take energy and kinetic damage, forcing enemies to use heavier weaponry to try and injure the creatures.
- The bladed appendages of the Suppurater have been enhanced through Sith alchemy to be nearly indestructible and to retain their sharp edges to be able to slash through armored foes.
- The newest addition to the Suppurater is courtesy of introducing Vixus DNA into the creature, creating a collection of spiked tentacles that the Suppurater keeps concealed within the larger piece of chitin on its upper body. The creature can send these tentacles through soft earth and have them erupt as an ambush attack against prey it senses above it while they are burrowed, while also being to launch them out while above ground as another ranged attack. Both tentacle attacks are limited to a seven meter radius.
- Like all lesser Sithspawn, direct applications of the Light Side such as Force Light can severely injure or outright kill Suppuraters.
- While the Suppurater is covered in more of its enhanced chitin than the old Festerers, the underbelly of the creature is exposed and present an easier to penetrate target for enemies to attack. The creature's armor also is still unable to stop the blade of a lightsaber or heavy weaponry.
- The tentacles, when extended, are not armored at all and if they are damaged, it causes the Suppurater intense agony and they will burrow deep into the ground to escape and hide from what hurt it, even if commands are being issued to it. Even once the wound has healed, they will remain hiding until the fighting has ended as the pain has imprinted on its brain and thus renders it useless as an attack creature.
- Diet: Carnivore
- Communication: Among its own kind, it can communicate through different screeches, hisses, and roars. It can understand commands given through the dark side of the Force or spoke in the Sith language
- Technology level: No technology level
- Religion/Beliefs: No religion or belief system
- General behavior: Like their predecessor, the Suppuraters are savage and cunning predators that utilize hit-and-run and ambush tactics against their prey, preferring to attack from below and then retreating into their tunnels before attacking from another angle. Suppuraters are also opportunistic scavengers and cannibals, prowling battlefields to consume meat, regardless if it was friend of foe. In the wild, they tend to lurk within their burrows and tunnels, keeping to themselves until they sense prey nearby.
After the beginning of the campaign against the Silver Jedi, Taeli and her alchemists decided to continue revisiting their oldest Sithspawn creations to enhance them for the continuing war. Kintan had shown that Festerers, while still effective, could be improved upon to enhance their combat potential and their ability to undermine enemy defensive positions. It was decided to introduce DNA from the sand demon of Tatooine and the vixus found on Umbara into the Festerer's genome, altering them further through genetic experimentation and alchemic twisting.
The new creatures, dubbed Suppuraters to continue the naming scheme of their predecessor, have taken on a more arachnid appearance with their spindly bladed appendages. The vixus DNA has created a new weapon for the creature in the form of retractable spiked tentacles while the sand demon DNA and Sith alchemy have further enhanced their blades and digging ability. The acidic saliva of the creatures was also increased in potency as stronger materials were slowly introduced into the armor of the Sith's foes.
