Gregor Jarkov's Biological Weapons Menu

The Gray Death

• The Gray Death were developed by Jarkov Biologics, Inc. as a top-secret military weapon to be used against their enemies.
• The Gray Death is a bug-like creature that stands about three feet tall and about eight feet long, including its tail. The tail makes up approximately five feet of its length. It weighs about one hundred pounds.
• Each creature's tail ends in a long, sharp spike that it uses to impale victims. Its arms end in hands with opposable thumbs and claws that are used as primary
  weapons to slice away at a target. Its feet also end in spikes; this comes in handy for the Death while kicking at a target (it uses kicking as a defense while trying to escape from an overwhelming opponent).
• The above statistics alone make this creature very formidable, but the following abilities make it stand out from the other life forms around it, namely: speed, stealth, and armor. The body armor of the Gray Death is it's exoskeleton, gray in color. It is impervious to all small arms fire, or anything less than a modified blaster rifle, or an E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon. Lightsabers and grenades will also harm the creature, though grenades are less effective than lightsabers. Vibroblades and axes also work, but inflict minimal damage.
• The Gray Death also have the uncanny ability to hide in the slightest shadow and pounce when their victim comes too close. They are extremely quiet when moving, and unless they are treading on dry leaves or a hollow metal surface, don't expect to hear them coming until it is too late.
• At Un'Yawa, the creatures inflicted a kill ratio of nearly two hundred fifty to one on the people dwelling there. If faced by one of these creatures, it is recommended to approach with extreme caution and heavy weaponry.

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Gray Death Overlords

• The "Overlord" is Gregor Jarkov's equivalent of the average captain in any sentient army. This creature, unlike the infamous Gray Death, is not produced on such scale--in fact, it is rare for Gregor to put more than one of these creatures "in charge" of a hundred or more lesser creatures.
• While the Overlord does tote considerable brute strength, its true purpose lies in its brain. Gregor's creatures all have, to a limited extent, a telepathic bond with Overlords and others of their kind. Hence, most Overlords reside on Jarkov's base world and have the job of receiving telepathic emotions from creatures out and about in the galaxy and report directly to Jarkov.
• The Overlords stand about seven and a half feet tall, with girth measuring around three feet across. They weigh about two hundred and fifty kilograms. Their only attack centers around their clawed hands, which, rather than swipe, they use to punch opponents. This attack has significant force behind it, however, and few humans can stand up to even one good hit.

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Toxishans

• The Toxishans are hulking, six-foot brutes packed with muscle and agility--and lacking anything vaguely resembling a brain. They have an innate ability to discern an attacker or a possible threat from the creatures around them, due to the fact that they see in infrared. They can detect when a creature is nervous or excited by their presence.
• Gregor Jarkov's use for these creatures is limited. Biological warfare is traditionally subtle, and these huge creatures of battle are of little use in espionage or quiet killings. Loud, brutal, and large, the Toxishans rumble around a battlefield, using not stealth but intimidation to work their psychological effect on the enemy. The Toxishans also have one other worrisome power: within their hollow-tipped claws lie reservoirs of deadly poison.
• Resembling a worm, the Toxishans are eight feet long, rearing to six feet, with six opposable-thumbed hands and arms sprouting from their torso. Each claw has enough force behind it to gouge a deep furrow in flesh, and with each hit a large amount of poison is injected into the open wound. Unless treated quickly, this poison will kill most weaker species if the wound itself doesn't within the hour. Jedi Master Tashannoc fought and killed one of the Toxishans in the Battle of Fury, but in the process of fighting was severely wounded himself, and nearly killed.

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* Toxishan poison attacks the victim's circulatory system, acting to turn the victim's own blood toxic.  Every ten minutes (that's ten minutes in character time), match the poison damage against the character's Strength or Stamina rank (use the highest rank) - ADDING 15 to the rank of the poison damage.  As soon as the character's rank is lower than the poison's rank, the character starts to die; losing 15 Strength ranks every 5 minutes.  When Strength reaches zero, the character is comatose and has thirty more minutes to receive medical attention.  
Medical attention:  Within the first fifteen minutes of receiving the wound and subsequent poisoning a character can be stabilized with the use of a medpac, if the administering character has a First Aid rank of 30 or higher.  Character must still seek proper care in a medical facility.  After those first fifteen minutes but before the character reaches the coma state, the character can be stabilized for 10 minutes with the use of a medpac by a character with First Aid ranked 50.  Once the character is in the coma, they can be stabilized/revived only in a medical facility by a medical droid or a sentient doctor with a Medicine rank of 25 or more.  A total flushing/transfusion of the victim's circulatory system must take place.
Rehabilitation for the victim of Toxishan poison:  Once a character begins losing Strength ranks, rehab will be needed for full recovery.  This means physical therapy for the victim.  They've lost Strength ranks.  They may purchase them back at the rate of 5 ranks per month at the cost of 15 points.  Lost strength ranks will be denoted with a fraction (example:  Jack Spoodle had a Strength rank of 45 before he tangled with a Toxishan; it was 15 once he was saved.  After being rescued and receiving medical attention, Jack's Strength rank looks like this on his profile page:  15/45).  A character cannot improve his true Strength rank until he has completely recovered from the poison.

Carrion Breeders

• Carrion Breeders were conceived of by Admiral Rigel Bismarck and developed by Jarkov Biologics, Inc. as a distraction tool for his conquest of the planet of Ord Pardron.
• Following the failure of Rigel's attempt to covertly insert troops en masse into the Alliance base, Admiral Bismarck angled towards something that would prove less detectable and would present a reproductive threat factor. He dreamed up a flying insect that would spread uncontested across the planet. With the idea in mind, he took it to Gregor Jarkov, who gave the creation "flesh."
• Each Carrion Breeder is born from eggs laid in a dead or vulnerable body. The insects come forth from their birthplace the size of a fist. Within two days, however, the insects will weigh about 50 lbs and can compare in size to human toddlers. The remaining time in its week long lifespan is spent breeding, catching food, or forming and maintaining a hive.
• There are two types of Carrion Breeders, one a unisex version of the other. The unisex or Stage One Breeders are the only kind that can be introduced into an environment not already supporting a hive. The Stage Ones have two purposes, breed and mark territory. Stage Ones mark territory by releasing a chemical compound into the air. They use that as signal flags to determine if there are enough Breeders to support a hive and how big an area the hive will need to support.
• A hive with active Breeders in it will constantly work to produce a Queen, as it is her airborne chemical/telepathic commands that cause the hive to work to expand. New Queens are breed on a weekly scale as the rest of the Carrion Breeder species is.
• Every Carrion Breeder is a lethal threat, as their agility and aggressiveness make them hard to hit, and the chitinous armor that was transferred from the Gray Death species makes hits less effective. These creatures have stingers equipped with a paralyzing venom that are typically used on an enemy several times during a fight to weaken and kill them. Breeders will also hurl their bodies at enemies or obstacles, utilizing their protective armor as a weapon while impaling threats on their stinger. No strategy for dealing with these creatures has yet been developed, so it is suggested that caution and stealth in approaching known Breeder territory be used in conjunction with orbital bombardment.

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