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The Moss (FT) [Factbook] [NPC]

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:08 pm

An army of flesh and bone eternally hunts for more and more sustenance, gorging itself upon the remains of dead planets and lost societies. Thousands of cities are overcome and crushed under a tide of moss and fungus, the very stones used to create them render down and used to produce ever more monsters and beasts, to repeat the cycle ad nauseam. For the tide is never content, and indeed grows more hungry the more it devours. This is The Moss, a rogue mass of organic material that eternally starves for new flesh to be devoured and yet, in its blind hunger, denies itself long term sustenance by gorging itself upon the bounties of every world it comes across until all that it has left behind is dust and rock. For such a hunger as it possesses does not permit the establishment of infrastructure or agriculture, instead demanding more food. Now. Immediately. At once. Patience is a foreign word to such an intelligence, devoured alongside ideas like 'technology', 'diplomacy' and 'ranged weaponry' by an all-consuming need and craving for more more more now now now.

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Postby Oppressed Slaver Union » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:12 pm

nom nom nom!
I'm in your planet consuming your sheep.
You could very easily make a Pelican variant capable of killing up to 39 Marines when it crashes while the Master Chief climbs out to go it alone.

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The Hunger and The Hivemind

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:27 pm

The Hunger is the primary driving force behind the Moss. It is the biological imperative to reproduce and survive at any cost. However, in the Moss it has been perverted to an all-consuming addiction to sustenance. It is present within every individual lifeform that composes the Moss, and indeed is capable of overriding the control of the psychic Hivemind that links the entire species. Even the Hivemind itself is dominated by the need to sate the Hunger, and so leads The Perfect Symbiosis into more and more planets in a constant cycle of feeding, breeding uncontrollably, and then finding a new world before facing mass extinction. Indeed, when starving from lack of food the Hivemind goes dormant and the various organic creatures that make up the Moss turn on each other in a massive feeding frenzy so as to prevent them ALL from starving. This usually happens when the Moss has been isolated to one world for too long and is a major weakness, and indeed the primary reason why the Moss is at best a regional threat and nowhere near the danger of greater entities with a similar method of operation.

It has been noted that the Hivemind of the MOss is slowly growing smarter as it consumes more sapient lifeforms, having already evolved to a state where it is able to understand flanking maneuvers as well as the art of deception. It is still nowhere near the intelligence of a sapient being, at best being on the same scale as a particularly stupid dog. Only in matters of feeding and killing is it a true genius, being highly adaptable and quite able to utilize a wide variety of tactics. The main disadvantage it faces is that it is very bad at dealing with enemies that change tactics, as it is usually incapable of changing its strategy after it has arrived on a target world and been consumed by the Hunger. It takes quite a while for the Hunger to be sated enough that the Hivemind reemerges. It also lacks an ability to modify the individual organic species that make up The Perfect Symbiosis, having to rely on the relatively ineffective strategy of adding random DNA from devoured species and hoping for the best.

The Hivemind also has very little control overs the individual creatures of the Moss, excepting the Archons. The Archons are the only creatures directly controlled by the Hivemind, as well as extremely powerful creatures themselves. The Archons release pheromones that allow them to direct the relatively uncontrolled hordes of The Perfect Symbiosis, giving order to what is normally a massive stampede of beasts. This makes them a key target for elimination if one is trying to defeat the Moss. However, as they are quite effective in combat themselves, this is easier said than done.
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The Devourer

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:56 pm

The eponymous moss-like organic material that is the primary component of the Moss, the Devourer is the sheet of plant-like material that grows on any world The Perfect Symbiosis has visited. It is the primary organism of the Moss, as well as the most dangerous. The Devourer grows like a plague, covering entire planets in mere months if left alone. It breaks down any organic matter it finds, including corpses, other plants and anything made of out an organic substance like wood or cotton. It is the primary source of food for the rest of the Moss, being devoured by the various Thrall Species of the Moss. It is in fact this consuming of the Devourer, or anything that has eaten the Devourer, that instills a creature with the overriding need to sate the Hunger and makes it receptive to the pheromones of the Archons. Many Thrall species are those creatures that originally consumed the Devourer due to starvation and slowly had their bodies restructured to better suit the Moss.

The Devourer dies in extremely high temperatures, and is unable to grow properly in extremely low temperatures. This limits the Moss to attacking planets in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, which also happens to be where most lifeforms are encountered.It is able to survive in a wide variety of atmospheres however, and besides its temperature issues is quite hard to destroy. Indeed, most biological weapons end up simply being incorporated into the Devourer as a poison and most chemicals are easily rendered useless by simple changes in the Devourer's internal bio-chemistry.
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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Thralls

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:25 pm

Thralls are those species that have been re-purposed to suit the Moss. They were all originally species located upon a world The Perfect Symbiosis infected, and all of them were enthralled by the Devourer and placed under the control of the Archons.

Thralls are grown from the spawning sacs that grow on mature instances of the Devourer, and they charge in mass numbers towards the enemy until they run out of bodies. Then another wave attacks, while The Devourer begins to consume the corpses of the previous wave. In this way, as little biomass as possible is lost so that more Thralls can be thrown at the enemy.

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Common Name: Scytheclaws
Eyes: 6 Red Eyes
Appendages: 6 feet, 4 arms
Digits: Scythe-like cartilage on hands, 3 sharp foot claws
Sensory Systems: Eyes, Ears, Tongue, Nose, Skin
Respiration Organ: Lungs
Waste Disposal Organs: Bladder
Circulatory Organs: Heart
Nervous Systems: Brain, Nerves
Spine?: Yes
Avg. Weight: 480 kg
Avg. Height: 7 ft 3 in (220.98 cm)
Avg. Length: 6 in (15.24 cm)
Avg. Lifespan: 5 years
Vicious, powerful and lightning fast, the Scytheclaws are the vanguards of the Moss and serve to exterminate sapient lifeforms limiting the growth of the Moss. They are armored with a natural chitinous exoskeleton coated with moss-liked organic material, making them quite resistant to bullets or other kinetic attacks, but very vulnerable to fire and temperature based weaponry. This includes lasers and other things that can inflame objects. They possess four powerful claws shaped like scythes, hence the name, that can cut through many materials and are matched in sharpness only by the Scytheclaw's own teeth. Generally the Scytheclaw will use its claws, as they are longer, when engaging the enemy and will resort to its teeth only when forced to. They are propelled by six legs, granting them quite high speeds. Their body is almost centaur like, with the arms being attached to a slender vertical structure while their legs are attached to a long horizontal structure, with the two structures joined in a mass of muscles similar to an abdomen. When running, they usually sort of duck their frontal structure so their entire body is horizontal. When in battle or standing still, they usually assume their natural stance whereupon the frontal structure is vertical and the back structure is horizontal.

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Common Name: Whiptongue
Planet of Origin: UNKNOWN
Scientific Name: UNKNOWN
Class: UNKNOWN
Diet: Omnivore

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"Profit is my ideology."
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Currency: Ulysses Kredito
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
Factbook
Current Decade: 425490s AE
previously the Intersphere
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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Archons

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:52 pm

Archons are the leader figures of the Symbiosis. It is believed that they are directly controlled by the Hivemind.
Work in progress.
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"Profit is my ideology."
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
Factbook
Current Decade: 425490s AE
previously the Intersphere
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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Reproduction

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:53 pm

How it spreads.
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"Profit is my ideology."
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
Factbook
Current Decade: 425490s AE
previously the Intersphere
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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Infected Worlds (Threads)

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:54 pm

Notable examples of infestation by the Moss.
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
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Current Decade: 425490s AE
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
Factbook
Current Decade: 425490s AE
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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Reserved for expansion, too
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
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Current Decade: 425490s AE
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The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft

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FAQ

Postby The Intersphere » Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:56 pm

Where any questions asked will be answered.
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"Our evolution is a necessity, our superiority a given."
Factbook
Current Decade: 425490s AE
previously the Intersphere
Free for usage as a plot point by anyone of NSFT
The Moss: Biological Infestation, Planetary Scale Threat, No Spacecraft


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