Creature Design: Giant Terropa Feedback Topic

This topic is to discuss the design of the Giant Terropa (or space Kraken if you will). Streel is running its own
agricultural planet and has "control" of its own stellar system on the
route between Theseus and Timeon, allowing it to bypass the troublesome
White Light System with its pesky monarchy. Streel has not had an easy time developing this system due to a number of hazards. One being the Giant Terropa. These
vacuum-living creatures appear to be related to the small Telpa, a metal eating
organism found at the Triskar System’s Shridkal asteroid belt (see “Creatures
of the Frontier,” Star Frontiersman Issue 19). The size of an assault scout, the
Giant Terropa has four large limbs that end in a small hydrogen “engine” that propels
them at high speeds.

Stealthy, the creatures
have been known to approach early Frontier ships without being detected before
they latched onto the hulls with their powerful claws and mandibles. Often the
Giant Terropa easily dismantled a wayward freighter within an hour. Some of the
debris of these destroyed vessels can be found in the system.<img src="http://www.starfrontiers.us/files/GT%20medium%20size_0.JPG" alt="Small version of size comparison chart" width="646" height="384" /> Referee background: These organic warships were seeded in the New Streel
system about 10 millennia ago after the fall of the Tetrarch Societies.
They were meant to keep the intelligent life form (known as the
Brights) on the planet Corpco from leaving. They were controlled by a
cybernetic brain-like installation that is on one of the moons of the
fifth planet (a Jovian) in the system. Years ago, the
installation used to broadcast a warning to others to stay out of the
system, but that failed some 2,000 years ago when it was damaged. When a
Human colony ship and its escorts from Minotaur visited the system some
___ years ago, it had the misfortune of running into a pod of six Giant
Terropas -- two full-sized adults and four juveniles of various sizes
-- which tore the ships apart. The system was then forgotten about until
Streel bought the space routes to it from an explorer. Because
of the increased stellar traffic in the system, the cybernetic
installation has programmed its Giant Terropa to begin making more and
more copies of itself (breeding). Streel has noticed this increased
activity and is mounting an extermination effort -- with the Spacefleets
help -- to clear away the navigational menace in the system.I will post more informaton in the download section and, eventually, in the documents section.Artwork is posted at these locations: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/9744, http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/9748, http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/9749, http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/9750, http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/9751, and http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/9752

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