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Starship Troopers: Warrior Bug

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Name: Uropygi (Warrior Bugs)

Dexterity: 3D+1

  • Dodge: 6D+1
  • Running: 6D+2

Perception: 1D+1
Strength: 4D

  • Climbing / Jumping: 7D+1

Orneriness: 2D

Move: 17
Size: 2-3 meters long
Weight: 550 kg

Special Abilities:

  • Claws: STR+1D+1
  • Bite: STR+2D
  • Natural Armor: STR+1D+2 to resist damage
  • Blindsight 10 meters: Using non-visual senses, such as sensitivity to vibrations, keen smell, acute hearing or echo-location, a creature with Blindsight maneuvers and fights as efficiently as a sighted creature. Darkness and most kinds of concealment are irrelevant, though the creature must have line of ‘sight’ to a creature or object to discern it. The creature usually does not need to make checks to notice creatures within range of its Blindsight ability. Unless noted otherwise, Blindsight is continuous and the creature need do nothing to use it. Stealth checks made to evade a creature with Blindsight suffer a –1D+1 penalty.
  • Lethal Grapple: If the warrior bug attacks with its bite weapon during a full-attack action, it may choose to start a grapple as a free action. It may only do this to targets that are of equal size or smaller. While the target remains grappled, the warrior bug is not considered grappled itself and will automatically deal its bite damage every round. Warrior bugs can only affect one target with its lethal grapple at a time; the current target must be killed or released before another can be grappled or bitten.
  • Wall Crawler: A warrior bug can climb and travel on vertical surfaces or even traverse ceilings as well as a Terran spider can. While the warrior bug is doing so it may continue to travel at its base speed and need not make checks to climb a vertical or horizontal surface, even if doing so upside down. A warrior bug cannot travel any faster than its base speed while climbing..
  • Sensitive Antenna: While an Arachnid is underground, such as lying in wait to open a tunnel beneath an opponent walking overhead, these specialized appendages also pick up radio transmissions. While this does not allow an Arachnid to understand these signals, they do provide a sense of general distance and direction to any active transmission source within 80 meters.

Description: Warrior bugs are physically indistinguishable from worker bugs aside from a very slight difference in its thorax chitin and mandible arrangement. Spotting this difference requires a Knowledge (alien species) check Difficulty 20 at 20 meters. By their nature, warrior bugs are highly aggressive and are capable of laying waste to a whole squad if not dealt with quickly. These creatures make up the primary troop type of the Arachnid threat.

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