Arla Rodarch
Marshal, Journeyman Protector
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To worldbuild on Mandalore and create something to blame
Darth Carnifex
for - Image Credit: source
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Name: Whoopsie!
- Designation: Non-sentient
- Origins: Mandalore (Lab)
- Average Lifespan: 5-10 years
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: A squat quadrupedal creature with a pudgy face and pleasant demeanour, which makes cute sounds that give the creature its name. It possesses several sensory organs which represent a nose, eyes, and ears, but allow it to sense electrical fields, and see into the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums. The creature is also blessed with fantastic hearing, and smell.
- Breathes: Type I
- Average Height of Adults: 0.3m
- Average Length of Adults: 0.4m
- Skin color: Grey
- Hair color: Grey
- Distinctions: A newborn is very similar in size, appearance and capability of a full adult.
- Races: N/A
- Force Sensitivity: Non-Sensitive
- Capable of taking down far larger prey
- Drinks Bones
- Extremely fast hunting behaviour
- Great senses
- Short lifespan
- Small
- Requires quite a bit of food
- Diet: Carnivore - Will consume bones of its prey
- Communication: The creature's tone and movements are a form of ritual communication, relevant only during courtship. Courtship resembles hunting behaviour in every way. Studies have not provided insight into why a male or female accept or reject one another.
- Technology level: N/A
- Religion/Beliefs: N/A
- General behavior: The creatures are solitary wanderers, except for when a male and female meet. They will either mate, or attempt to consume one another. After a successful mating they part ways. Infant creatures are born for all intents and purposes as an adult, and will quickly find their own range and direction from their parent, often within the first few months. Though they do not grow large, they do grow fast, and will find their full growth within their first year.
Hunting behaviour is rather crafty for such an otherwise unintelligent creature. It will move about slowly, almost comical in appearance, making its cry, and appear rather detached from reality. This changes very suddenly when prey come within its striking range. Like lightning the creature will leap upon its usually much larger prey and bite down with incredible force, unleashing its multiple and hitherto hidden huge fangs. These strike into the prey, and powerful enzymes shoot into the creature and quickly liquefy its bone structure. This is then sucked out by the Whoopsie, and is quickly fatal. The Whoopsie will discard the remains with no interest, and either move to another prey, or resume its wandering.
During the destruction of Mandalore by Darth Carnifex the Despoiler, a small research lab was sunk into a deep cavern by massive surface blasts that destroyed its building. Deep inside the lab were a breeding pair of animals which had been created with the intention of breeding biological war creatures for use against Mandalore's enemies. With the destruction, the lab was destroyed, and the male and female escaped.
Due to their engineered genetic diversity, the negative impacts of inbreeding in populating a species from only a single mating pair were vastly reduced. The creatures thrived on Mandalore, particularly in the underground, in caves, caverns, and tunnels deep beneath the surface. Indeed, they might not have proliferated so much if not for the abundant food provided by the Sith instigated infestation of Graug and worse upon Mandalore. But proliferate they did, reducing the fast-reproducing Graug in significant numbers as they roamed.
There are only two reasons they have not overrun Mandalore entirely, for such a ferocious and determined effective hunter seems destined to sit atop any food chain. One reason is due to their short lifespan of a maximum of ten years, but some live far shorter existences. The other is the fact that they can and do prey upon one another. If either circumstance were to change, these creatures would be a terror comparable to any in the galaxy.
