The Spice Pig of Gamorr
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To give Grunt a personal rancor mount.
- Image Credit: Matt James
- Role: Personal War Mount, intimidation beast, heavy combat support.
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Rancor (Wookieepedia), Gamorrean (Wookieepedia),
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
- Age: 17 standard years
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
- Species: Rancor
- Appearance: Standing at 5.4 meters, this rancor's hide is a dark, swamp-green mottled with scar tissue. Its small amber eyes glint with animal cunning, while its maw shows broken tusks and chipped teeth from countless battles. A ridge of jagged bone spines runs down its back. Black Sun sigils have been painted across its chest and shoulders in crimson pigment. It wears a reinforced modular harness fitted for plate armor, spikes, and hardpoints for mounting weapons such as repeating blasters or grenade launchers, functional restraints turned into war trophies and weapon systems.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Name: Usurer
- Loyalties:
Grunt
, Black Sun Syndicate. - Personality: Aggressive and territorial to all but Grunt. Loyal only to him, having been trained in the guttural Gamorrean tongue so that it does not respond to orders given in Basic. Displays patience when fed and rewarded but is quick to violence if provoked. Obedient to Grunt's whistles, grunts, and commands, though it has no tolerance for strangers attempting control. Among the Suns, its name is whispered as a warning.
COMBAT INFORMATION
- Combat Function: Usurer is both a living siege engine and a mobile weapons platform. In combat, it tramples infantry, smashes fortifications, and spreads terror on sight. Its harness-mounted systems allow it to provide suppressive fire or area denial while Grunt directs it into battle. It functions best in open terrain or urban shock assaults; its size makes it vulnerable in confined spaces and to long-range heavy weaponry.
- Combat Capability:
- Natural: Colossal strength, claws able to shred armor, tusked mouth capable of crushing prey, ability to hurl boulders or debris.
- Mounted: Modular hardpoints can equip repeating blasters, grenade launchers, or spiked armor plating, turning it into a hybrid war beast and siege weapon.
- Psychological: Its presence alone is a weapon, demoralizing enemies before the first strike. - Defenses: Thick leathery hide provides resistance to small arms and melee. Harness plating adds limited protection. Still vulnerable to explosives, artillery, and lightsabers.
- Force Abilities (Force User Units Only): N/A
MOUNT SPECIFICATIONS
- Role: Heavy Assault War Mount
- Size: Large
- Weight: ~6,000 kg
- Mount Experience/Training: Trained
- Maneuverability: Low- cumbersome in enclosed spaces, better suited to wide terrain and frontal assaults.
- Speed: Capable of reaching 40 km/h in short bursts.
- Locomotion: Bipedal
- Passenger Capacity: 1 rider
- Cargo Capacity: Can haul ~1,000 kg on its harness without hindrance
Strengths:
- Immense physical strength and durability, enhanced by modular weapon mounts. Capable of tearing apart fortifications and infantry alike.
- Exclusive obedience to Grunt's Gamorrean commands, making it very hard to hijack or redirect by outsiders.
- Psychological terror- its name and presence alone can break morale before combat begins.
Weaknesses:
- Large, slow-moving target, easily spotted and vulnerable to concentrated fire, explosives, or air support.
- Weapon mounts add weight and complexity, reducing agility and requiring constant maintenance.
- Feeding and sustaining a rancor of this size is expensive; starvation or injury can make it volatile, even toward allies.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Originally bred in the shadow pits of Nar Shaddaa, the rancor was deemed uncontrollable, killing multiple handlers before the Black Sun considered disposing of it. Grunt saw opportunity where others saw danger. Using his guttural native tongue and sheer presence, he bent the beast to his will. Where others lashed it with chains, Grunt forged a bond through Gamorrean commands, ensuring it would only ever respond to him.
He named it Usurer, and it became a symbol of Black Sun debt collection philosophy. Every appearance of the beast serves as a reminder: the debt always comes due. Over time, Grunt outfitted Usurer with a modular war harness, able to mount blasters, grenade launchers, and spiked plating, transforming it into a walking siege engine.
Now, Usurer is both legend and weapon, remembered wherever Grunt marches. Together, they serve as a terrifying remind of what happens when you cross the Black Sun Syndicate.
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