Creature Design: Giant Terropa Feedback Topic

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JCab747
May 10, 2017 - 8:46pm
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.

Small version of size comparison chart
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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Joe Cabadas
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jedion357
May 11, 2017 - 12:43pm
Organic warship? Begs the possibility of PCs getting to use one (Farscape and TNG episode "Tin Man").  So I think you need a deckplan. 

  • To that end have you seen the module "Klikk Klakk" I think it was an Alternity module and spelling could be with a "C". In the mod they provide an asteroid with rooms but tunnels between were organic and determined randomly. This could be a model for the Teropa
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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JCab747
May 16, 2017 - 7:13pm
jedion357 wrote:
Organic warship? Begs the possibility of PCs getting to use one (Farscape and TNG episode "Tin Man").  So I think you need a deckplan. 

  • To that end have you seen the module "Klikk Klakk" I think it was an Alternity module and spelling could be with a "C". In the mod they provide an asteroid with rooms but tunnels between were organic and determined randomly. This could be a model for the Teropa


I'll try posting this again... Sadly I don't have that Alternity module though I've been researching that game. It has some interesting ideas that can be incorporated into the Frontier, especially since they are both TSR products.

I did find some illustrations of Clikk/Klikk ships, which gives me some ideas that I will have to post here.

http://www.starfrontiers.us/files/clikk%20ships_0.jpg
Joe Cabadas

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JCab747
May 16, 2017 - 7:14pm
See that illustrator is much more skillful than I.
Joe Cabadas