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Space Eel

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"My word. Have you ever seen anything so repulsive?"
Those were the reputed words of Elk Wilson himself when he stepped out the shower onto one of these. Indiginous to space, these creatues vary widely in size and strength but are more than able to deliver a stinging bout of slime when they feel threatened. Despite this, they're recommended as the basic foodstuff for the newcomer's appetite for killing things. As with earth, they can be considered "MOSTLY HARMLESS"
Found most abundantly in sector Terra (4).

  • 1x Acid Eel Slime
  • 500 hull
  • drop 4 m3 lightore.x32.png 2 m3 lightmetal.x32.png 3 m3 coronalgas.x32.png
  • 37-65 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 1
  • Rank 1
  • Family: Space Eel

Bulger

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There's nothing like a grilled Bulger after a hard day's work. Not that you'd want to eat it, it's just quite unique.
The 'Bulger' (so called because it... bulges) is a mindless creature (literally) which spends it's days soaking in the sun. Driven solely by the primitive urge to get the perfect tan, it's unfortunate that these creatures are in fact allergic to sunlight. They're bulging nature is due to their bodies having an extreme allergic reaction and turning all energy absorbed into puss (interestingly, their actual size without the reaction is that similar to a raison). Thus, when the young pilot decides to try out a bulger, they can be sure to get an easy and satisfying explosion... If not slightly disgusting.
Found just about everywhere

  • 4x Small Tentacle
  • 20 shield, 50 armor, 800 hull
  • Influence per Mission: 4
  • Rank 2
  • Family: Bulger

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Echinochloa

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"Echinochloa", the guy said for my lawn. What do I get? A leg, arm and spleen missing, minus three children and my entire stock of vintage 'knitted socks.'
Evolution took a little break during the development of the Echinochloa (If you're wondering, it had a few 'Nice' biscuits, several crackers with brie and a small Guinea-Pig, slowly roasted over a spit), which one day developed intelligence, emotions and long tentacley things which don't make good seafood all spontaneously. The donkies in the yard in which they first developed were quite surprised by this. People were even more surprised when the grass species developed interstellar unaided existance 4 minutes later, something still as of yet undeveloped for primates.
Fortunately for us, after the war of the humped billboard, the latest generation has been subject to horrific parenting and don't quite understand how to feed themselves. Thus, they're a relatively easy kill for younglings.
Found most abundantly in Centic (6).

  • 4x branch
  • 100 armor, 200 hull
  • Influence per Mission: 9
  • Rank 3
  • Family: Echinochloa

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Space Eel Mother

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"Yum?"
Slightly more meaty than their spawn, when Elk Wilson stepped on one of THESE, aesthetics were the last thing on his mind. Quite how he stepped on one is another matter. The space eel mother is, as expected, a slightly tougher nut to crack (or make splat in satisfying ways in this case) but shouldn't be shied away from by any means. As Elk himself says: "Give 'em a poke and see what happens."
Just... Not good for eating.
Found most abundantly in Centic (2).

  • 3x Acid Eel Slime
  • 300 armor, 650 hull
  • drop 7 m3 lightore.x32.png 2 m3 heavyore.x32.png 2 m3 lightmetal.x32.png 1 m3 ferrousmetal.x32.png 3 m3 coronalgas.x32.png
  • 99-109 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 16
  • Rank 4
  • Family: Space Eel

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Space Eel Warrior

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"If you eat a SEW, you'll be quite unwell" OLD PORK PROVERB
From fins to pincer-type things, clearly a beak is immediately the thing that comes to mind when you think of the next stage in evolution for an eel. Funnily enough, these aren't steps up in evolution, but different classes of the same animal - in this case, the pelican.
Well as they say, you learn something new everyday!
These come somewhere between rogue pirate and master pirate in difficulty. But watch out because they seem drain your health without you noticing...
Found alone in: Inco, Centic and Centauri

  • 7x Acid Eel Slime
  • 3x Huge Eel Spike
  • 300 shield, 1,400 armor, 800 hull
  • 663 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 49
  • Rank 7
  • Family: Space Eel

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Sentry Drone

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*Sigh* "Not again."
If sentry drones could talk, I'm fairly sure this phrase would rank fairly highly in vocabulary commonly used by them - they are a VERY easy kill. Left behind from the great tiddly-wink war of '52, they were used to protect high-ranking generals. However, these drones quickly and suddenly found themselves unemployed when they didn't notice the enemy walk past them during lunchtime. With nothing left to protect, they spend their days muttering insults to the nearest nearbye creature; when no-one's looking, of course.
Found most abundantly in Struve (3).

  • 6x 2 MJ Pulse Laser
  • Sunburst
  • 1,050 armor, 500 hull
  • drop 1 m3 anti-matter.x32.png
  • 53-86 XP
  • Influence Per Mission: 36
  • Rank 6
  • Family: Sentry

Rogue Pirate

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"OAAAAAARRRR"
Captain Paddle was the pioneer of space pirating. He didn't have an eye patch or a beard. In fact he was the most disappointing pirate the galaxy has known and so was included in public circles. In fact, it's hard to find any evidence that he did anything illegal at all... Unfortunately for we noble travelers, the luckless individuals who have lost their way and are classified as 'Rogue Pirates' aren't quite as unrecognizable. They WILL have your guts for garters but give it a couple of weeks and you should be able to take them down. Unfortunately, they're both dead hard to find (almos always claoked) and dead poor (so very dead) and it's a bit of an anti-climax when you find a couple of tonnes of light ore in their smouldering wrecks. Pirates. Gr.

  • 2x 500 KJ Laser
  • 2x 200 KJ Laser
  • 1x Tiny Omega Canon
  • 720 shield, 950 armor, 480 hull
  • drop 4 m3 lightore.x32.png
  • 429 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 25
  • Rank 5
  • Family: Pirate

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Master Pirate

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"Only 1 thing is worse than a pirate: 2 pirates.
That famous proverb sums up the master pirate. Think ye of a rogue pirate and times it by two and a bit and: Voila. Happyjoy, we arrive at the 'master pirate.' These 'pesky rascals' have sussed that sitting there waiting to get attacked isn't the most successful tactic. These 'blighters' go even as far as ambushing! I know; what has the world come to? On the bright side, once you get to their level though, their spoils are much more satisfactory than their predecessors.

  • 4x 10 MJ Pulse Laser
  • 6x 2 MJ Pulse Laser
  • 2x Tiny Omega Canon
  • Z-001
  • X-1100
  • 920 shield, 1490 armor, 580 hull
  • drop 1 m3 preciousmetal.x32.png 1 m3 carbonhex.x32.png
  • 851-971 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 64
  • Rank 8
  • Family: Pirate

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Vorpal Fang

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"Your face looks like a Vorpal Fang"
Oh. Oh. The sweet scent of nostalgia. Who hasn't been called a Vorpal Fang on the virtual playground? Mmmmm... Aside from that, according to Pork Mythology, Vorpal Fangs were the foot mould of the great giant Daisy Boo. 1 thing's for sure, spraying them with obnoxious chemicals won't do you a lot of good - once they hold on, they don't let go (well, to an extent - it'd be pretty silly if it held on for ETERNITY). Yeah. Not comfort killing for beginners, but good practise once you can handle rogue pirates with ease.
Most common in sectors: Centic and Terra (2).

  • 3x Small Vorpal Teeth (28 damage)
  • 4x Large Vorpal Teeth (45 damage)
  • 2x Vorpal Acid Spit (34 damage)
  • 2,425 armor, 800 hull
  • 2,026-2,803 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 81
  • Rank 9
  • Family: Vorpal

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Anemone

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The Lahst Thingh Iy Sor Beefor Geting Wolfd Woz An Anemonee Eeting Mie Crab DOUGLAS HADAMS' 'THE DAY I TRIED PEASE PUDDING'
Ah, who hasn't read that classic novel? Back before spelling was invented, the Anemone was a most feared poodle. Named after a type of marine flaura from some little-heard-of-planet, it would go out at night (well... the space equivilent, which was when the Kudu practised that intriguing art of 'Sun swallowing') and attack passing vessels with prams (as in hitting them with buggies - squealing children and all). The trauma left many an unflinching, war-hardened veteran tucking in to bushels of banana croutons to drown out their misery the addictive foodstuffs with their crunchy yet... surprisingly flavoursome aromas. Since then though, Kudus have become a lot rarer, and prams have stopped being mass-produced. In the face of such events, the Anemone has since fallen into insignificance. Still, they provide a nice distraction to kill for pilots who are beginning to find rogue pirates child's play (since most of them are children, this comes as no surprise).
Present alone in Arcturus and Quan.

  • 5x Spike Venom
  • Pronged Spike
  • 600 shield, 1400 armor, 600 hull
  • Influence per Mission: 100
  • Rank 10
  • Family: Anemone

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Interstellar Wasp

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"I'd rather be a wasp than eat vegetables"
Needless to say, President Brian McDuh was a bit... questionable. McDuh declared war on vegetables back in the year of the Small Grunting Crisp Packet and greengrocers have never fully recovered since - Especially due to constant raids from these beasties. Interstellar Vegetable Consuming Wasps (or more commonly known as just 'Intersteller Wasps') are particularly fond of courgettes - causing much controversy over whether they actually are a vegetable or not. Clearly, such petty arguments are irrelevant when you're confronted with one of these. I think McDuh would recommend a wee bit of practice before waving a carrot in front of this insect.

  • 8x Wasp Claws (52 damage)
  • Wasp Bite (500 damage)
  • 1,175 shield, 2,925 armor, 900 hull
  • 3,036-3,882 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 100
  • Rank 10
  • Family: Interstellar

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Space Jelly

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"Not for eating."
The space jelly is in fact related to a branch of the canine family. How it made this tranformation from its original species is... quite a mystery. A pain to find and a pain to kill except for intermediates and above, space jellies have been likened to jelly babies in that when they are put in a warm test tube of potassium chlorate, they fizz, smell and make noises in much the same manner. Also... They both have 'jelly' in their titles (You can count McDUH for that astute observation - this won him the Nobel Prize for Physiology).
Present only in Alberdaran.

  • 8x Jelly Stinger
  • 1,800 shield, 200 armor, 1,200 hull
  • drop 1 m3 water.x32.png
  • 478-1,850 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 121
  • Rank 11
  • Family: Jelly

Spectral Wisp

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"You don't want to pick on me. I'm related to a smidgen of semi-transparent energy"
The seventh emporer of Pork, after successfully establishing his throne through questionable means, definately had a point. This is yet another creature which has stirred debate amongst those with nothing better to do. Some say this lifeform is in fact remiscent of the dead and its trans-dimensional nature makes it hazy round the edges... Others say that that it's the result of an immensely proftable remote ISP that somehow lost its way in the realms of cyberspace... And others still demand that it actually refers to colourful men who hunt small birds.
However all this isn't really important - all you need to know is that they're not suitable for small children (or for that matter, big ones).

  • 10x Electro Shock
  • 600 shield, 1,800 armor, 200 hull
  • 768-1,993 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 169
  • Rank 13
  • Family: Wisp

Space Monkey

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"So err... Where did the suit come from?"
That, is the greatest second greatest unsolved mystery known to philosophers to date but some speculate that it is in fact the next step in the evolutionary cycle for us. However attempts to communicate don't go very far as the pulses emitted by the monkey are detrimental to the structural integrity of most ships (quite how this works in a vacuum I'm not sure...) and no instruments can yet get past this rather curious barrier in communication. Needless to say, if you've fresh earned your wings, speaking to this buckoe should NOT be at the top of your list (let alone nabbing his 'nana).

  • 15x Monkey Shriek (88 damage)
  • Flying Banana (900 damage)
  • 1,800 shield, 100 armor, 1,200 hull
  • 4,410 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 196
  • Rank 14
  • Family: Monkey

Slurg

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  • 4x Small Tentacle
  • 2x Large Tentacle
  • Venomous Stinger
  • 450 shield, 1500 armor, 1200 hull
  • Influence per Mission: 255
  • Rank 15
  • Family: Anemone

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Shambling Morass

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"The Shambling Morass is really not a very nice thing"
Ah, doesn't the nursery rhyme bring back waves of nostalgia...? Don't touch if you value your insides.
Roaming NPC (doesn't stay in the same area for too long).

  • 12x Shambling Bite
  • Shambling Torpedo
  • 600 shield, 1,600 armor, 1,400 hull
  • 6,861 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 256
  • Rank 16
  • Family: Shambling

Krill

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The Krill would be, in fact, relatively harmless by itself... unfortunately, natural selection decided that the Krill wasn't pretty enough by itself, so it developed a species whose sole habitat was the Krill's jaws. The 'Wetfishpig,' a dangerous creature that originated on those famous Narokun beaches floats aimlessly through space until it finds a Krill... On discovery, it immidiately inhabits its mouth and consumes everything that the Krill floats into; far from enjoying the experience, the Krill has to live on nothing but... Let's not go there. Commonly mistaken for teeth, the Wetfishpig has alarming flexibility and is prone to retreat holds and any new pilots shouldn't think about poking them until much later on (and it's nice to ask permission from the Krill first before blowing it up).

  • 7x Teeth
  • 5000 armor, 800 hull
  • Influence per Mission: 289
  • Rank 17
  • Family: Krill

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Cephalopod

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I was never a fan of molluscs; least of all mulluscs from the sea. KEVIN McDUH
Kevin was Brian's sister.
Cephalopods have changed (if only slightly) since they're days slaving on earth. Whether their gills process photons or dissolved oxygen in the sea though, the important thing to note when encountering these creatures is the LARGE-TENTACLEY-SUCKERY-THINGS-WHICH-WILL-DEVOUR-YOU abreviated to 'Blowholes' (intrigued readers may want to take note that the technical term nowadays for the creature's arsonal is in fact 'The Biscuit Tins' ever since spelling was re-invented by the Bourbonites of Birmingham back in '93... But 'blowholes' makes a lot more sense).
They're not very nice on the whole - so don't go poking one (unless it looks particularly lonely, in which case it would be the loving, Christian and traumatic thing to do).

  • 9x Blowhole
  • 3000 shield, 1500 armor, 3900 hull
  • Influence per Mission: 324
  • Rank 18
  • Family: Cephalopod

NPC Created by Shadow Lady

Kudu

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Quote
Kudu's are scary. They can eat just about everything (including singularities) without ill-effects and worse, are registered accountants. Analysts have picked up boredom levels well over the level of a lecture on the properties of a brick-hued brick; mathematic levels well over that which is healthy to be subject to (i.e. More than 10 minutes of calculus); biscuit levels far beyond Mr Bourbon could ever imagine...
Capable of a little-seen-before 'SUPER CRITICAL HIT' from a projectile weapon that collapses shield, armour and hull in just 1 visit, this MONSTER of a creature has been known to inhume entire species in its parabolic, cardioid nonsense-field whilst feasting upon the lethal flying banana of a Space Monkey. In all, this is a very dangerous creature indeed - and not to be sensibly poked for more than 1 round, if at all. Watch it.
Kudus are also fond of gardening.
Roaming NPC (doesn't stay in the same area for very long)

  • 8x Teeth
  • 1x Horn Bash
  • 6000 armor, 2000 hull
  • 9412 XP
  • Influence per Mission: 361
  • Rank 19
  • Family: Kudu

NPC Created by Shadow Lady