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McHenry’s Beast
Hills, Foothills, Carnivorous Chaser (1D)
Size 7 (100kgs), Hits 20/7, Armour jack, Wounds 10, Teeth+1, A0 F6 S4
The McHenry’s Beast named after Sir Ernest McHenry the famous Gentleman, Explorer, and Scholar is native to and found on the planet of Audl Iota (B656500-8) in the Dorubuni Subsector.
The Beast is man sized and in its natural habitat lives in caves and crags in most of the planets hill and foothill environs. They are encountered in small family groups – though of late man has altered their environment and now they can also show up in several bandit camps as guard creatures (after some surgical treatment – see below). They are highly intelligent and very protective of their territory (which once trained make them excellent guard animals).
Their physiology and evolution has bought some interesting survival adaptions, most notably is the gland located behind their ears. During combat or times of aggression these glands secrete a thick liquid that though is not harmful is equivalent to pepper spray, which burns the eyes and noses of its prey (in most cases domesticated creatures have the glands removed by surgical means). The beast delivers this by violently shaking its head during an attack and slapping it onto the target with its large pendulous ear lobes. Its three rows of upper and lower teeth are heavily serrated and they have been known to rip limbs of off their prey in one bite, to facilitate this they have developed very strong neck muscles and have a 270 degree reach. An odd looking creature their neck extends into the trunk with little discernible shoulders on its front limbs, moving back into a pair of powerful hind legs capable of pulling loads exceeding their mass, both set of limbs end in cloven hoofs better suited to climbing and traversing broken rocky ground. They are almost hairless with only a light stiff bristle like coat covering their dark pigmented skin which is rough to the touch and makes excellent and hard wearing leather. They are Male/Female sexual and normally gestate 1 pup, which is carried by the mother for around 5 months, during this time the beast is at its most dangerous both male and female encounter a massive hormone spike and become even more savage than their normal nature, also of note that on the rare occasion that 2 pups are born it is usual for the mother to rip apart the weaker off the two within two weeks of the birth.
Sir Ernest McHenry first encountered the creature when he was prospecting in the Skak ranges a low hilly region just 100km north of the main Starport, His team excited after finding several signs of rare metals in the hills unknowingly stumbled into a cave that was the nest for a expecting pair – needless to say several of the team were killed and Sir Ernest himself sustained several major injuries. They regathered and retreated immediately, leaving behind most of their equipment. On the journey back to port Sir Ernest studied the effects of the glandular fluid, and once recuperated mounted a return expedition to reclaim the lost equipment but to also catalogue these beasts. Sir Ernest McHenry spent the best part of the next decade Travelling Audl Lota cataloguing most of its flora and fauna.
Hills, Foothills, Carnivorous Chaser (1D)
Size 7 (100kgs), Hits 20/7, Armour jack, Wounds 10, Teeth+1, A0 F6 S4
The McHenry’s Beast named after Sir Ernest McHenry the famous Gentleman, Explorer, and Scholar is native to and found on the planet of Audl Iota (B656500-8) in the Dorubuni Subsector.
The Beast is man sized and in its natural habitat lives in caves and crags in most of the planets hill and foothill environs. They are encountered in small family groups – though of late man has altered their environment and now they can also show up in several bandit camps as guard creatures (after some surgical treatment – see below). They are highly intelligent and very protective of their territory (which once trained make them excellent guard animals).
Their physiology and evolution has bought some interesting survival adaptions, most notably is the gland located behind their ears. During combat or times of aggression these glands secrete a thick liquid that though is not harmful is equivalent to pepper spray, which burns the eyes and noses of its prey (in most cases domesticated creatures have the glands removed by surgical means). The beast delivers this by violently shaking its head during an attack and slapping it onto the target with its large pendulous ear lobes. Its three rows of upper and lower teeth are heavily serrated and they have been known to rip limbs of off their prey in one bite, to facilitate this they have developed very strong neck muscles and have a 270 degree reach. An odd looking creature their neck extends into the trunk with little discernible shoulders on its front limbs, moving back into a pair of powerful hind legs capable of pulling loads exceeding their mass, both set of limbs end in cloven hoofs better suited to climbing and traversing broken rocky ground. They are almost hairless with only a light stiff bristle like coat covering their dark pigmented skin which is rough to the touch and makes excellent and hard wearing leather. They are Male/Female sexual and normally gestate 1 pup, which is carried by the mother for around 5 months, during this time the beast is at its most dangerous both male and female encounter a massive hormone spike and become even more savage than their normal nature, also of note that on the rare occasion that 2 pups are born it is usual for the mother to rip apart the weaker off the two within two weeks of the birth.
Sir Ernest McHenry first encountered the creature when he was prospecting in the Skak ranges a low hilly region just 100km north of the main Starport, His team excited after finding several signs of rare metals in the hills unknowingly stumbled into a cave that was the nest for a expecting pair – needless to say several of the team were killed and Sir Ernest himself sustained several major injuries. They regathered and retreated immediately, leaving behind most of their equipment. On the journey back to port Sir Ernest studied the effects of the glandular fluid, and once recuperated mounted a return expedition to reclaim the lost equipment but to also catalogue these beasts. Sir Ernest McHenry spent the best part of the next decade Travelling Audl Lota cataloguing most of its flora and fauna.
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