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 Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:32 pm Post subject: Acanti Broodship |
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Ever since I read about the Acanti in the X-Men comics of the 80s I loved the concept. So here, finally, I have gotten around to posting some preliminary stats. I really looking forward to peoples comments and suggestions for a lobotomized space whale.
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Acanti Broodship
Type: Living battleship
Scale: Capital
Length: up to 3 kilometers
Era: Any
Affiliation: Acanti, Brood
Source: Marvel Commics, stats by +Oliver Queen
Skill: Capital Ship Piloting: Acanti
Crew: 72,498, gunners: 554, skeleton: 4510/+10
Crew Skill: Varies
Passengers: 25,000 (Brood warriors)
Cargo Capacity: 85,000 metric tons
Consumables: Special (up to 10 years)
Cost: Not available for sale
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x4
Hyperdrive Back-Up: None
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 5
Atmosphere: None
Hull: 8D
Sensors:
-- Passive: 40/1D
-- Scan: 60/2D
-- Search: 120/3D
-- Focus: 5/3D+2
Weapons:
120 Turbolaser Batteries
-- Fire Arc: 40 front, 40 left, 40 right
-- Crew: 1 (20), 2 (40)
-- Skill: Capital ship gunnery
-- Fire Control: 4D
-- Space Range: 3-15/35/75
-- Damage: 5D
40 Quad Laser Cannons
-- Fire Arc: 10 front, 10 left, 10 right, 10 back
-- Crew: 1(5), 2(10), 3(5)
-- Scale: Starfighter
-- Skill: Starship gunnery
-- Fire Control: 4D
-- Space Range: 1-3/12/25
-- Damage: 4D
12 Concussion Missile Tubes
-- Fire Arc: 4 front, 4 left, 4 right
-- Crew: 3
-- Skill: Capital ship gunnery: concussion missiles
-- Fire Control: 3D
-- Space Range: 1-3/7/14
-- Ammo: 24 missiles each
-- Damage: 7D
Capsule: The Acanti roughly resemble whales. They are a reddish brown color. Have dorsal, ventral, lateral, and caudal fins, as well as green eyes widely spaced on their heads. The Acanti are large space-faring creatures most closely resembling Earth's whale shark. An adult Acanti can grow to a few kilometers in length, and even an infant is large enough to swallow a 15-person spaceship with room to take in at least four more. They are sentient creatures which communicate through psionic sounds referred to as songs. Acanti have the innate ability to fly faster than the speed of light, without technological assistance.
According to myth, the Acanti are an ancient species who peacefully wander through space, benevolent and compassionate by nature. The Acanti are led by one individual known as the Prophet-Singer. The Prophet-Singer is the repository of the Acanti's racial Soul, a collective semi-mystical force that linked and motivates the Acanti species. As death approaches, the Acanti typically hurl themselves into stars. The Prophet-Singer of each generation would also do so, releasing the Soul to join the body of the next Prophet-Singer.
Upon migrating to the galaxy, the Brood began to enslave the Acanti to take advantage of their natural ability to travel at speeds exceeding light. The Brood used their bioengineering skills to infect individual Acanti with a disease known as the Slaver Virus, which destroys the higher cognitive functions of their minds, making them ripe for easy control. Then, the Brood transform the mindless husks into living starships. The lobotomized Acanti, are then equipped with cybernetic controls and outfitted with weaponry. while traveling the cosmos the Brood feed off of the inside of the Acanti.
Eventually, the creatures die from flight exhaustion and internal damage. Their huge rotting corpses are then "beached" on a planet, where they serve as food sources for a colony and their bones provide the structures for Brood buildings. The Brood have succeeded in enslaving the Acanti Prophet-Singer, and when it eventually died and crashed on a planet, its body was reconstructed as the "throne city" on the planet that the Brood then established as the center of their empire. Thus, the Soul remained trapped in the skull of the dead Prophet-Singer.
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Bobmalooga
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LOL, George I was thinking of these the other day when I re-read Darth Vader #5, there are similar looking critters doing just about the same thing (or at least that was where my mind jumped to when I saw them...) but I love the idea...
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