Starfinder: Ankylosaurs - Augmented
Ankylosaurs Combatant CR 8 XP 4,800
Neutral huge animal (technological)
Init +0; Senses: Low light vision; Perception +16
Defense HP 125
EAC: 20; KAC: 22
Fort: +12; Ref: +12; Will: +7
Defensive Abilities: DR 10 / piercing, Reflective hide; Immunities: Electricity
Offense
Speed: 30 ft.
Melee: Tail bash +19 (3d4+16 B&P Crit knockdown and bleed 1d6)
Space: 15 ft., Reach: 15 ft.
Offensive Abilities: Electrical burst, spiked tail, trample (3d8+16 B Crit knockdown)
Statistics
Str +8; Dex +0; Con +4; Int -4; Wis +0; Cha +0
Skills: Athletics +21, survival +16
Feats: Improved combat maneuver (bull rush), mobility, penetrating attack
Languages: None
Ecology
Environment: Any warm plains or forests
Organization: solitary, pair, or herd (3d4)
Special Abilities
Electrical Burst (Ex): As a full round action, the creatures are able to generate an electrical burst from their body. This is thanks to being genetically modified with the genes taken from electric eels. This burst has a radius of 20 feet and inflicts 2d8+8 points of damage. The creature can use this ability once every 3 rounds.
Reflective Hide (Ex): These augmented Ankylosaurs have had their natural scales replaced with reflective metal. As a result, whenever they are struck by energy-based weapons, there is a 20% chance the shot will be reflected off in a random direction instead of inflicting damage on the creature.
Spiked Tail (Ex): The tail of these creatures have been thickened with metal and have had large spikes attached. AS a result, the tail does both blunt and piercing damage, and can not only knock a target prone, but it can even cause bleeding wounds.
Trample (Ex): As a full-round action, the creature can move up to twice its speed and literally run over any opponents at least one size category smaller than itself. The Ankylosaurs merely has to move over the opponents in its path. The creature does not need to make an attack roll; each creature whose space it moves through takes damage. A target of a trample can make a REF save (DC 16) for half damage. If it attempts the save, it can’t make an attack of opportunity against the trampling Dino due to the creature’s movement. The Augmented dino can deal trample damage to a given target only once per round.
Yet another dinosaur augmented through genetic engineering and cyber-technology by the Vesk to be used as a beast of war.
The problem is that this particular creature was originally a herbivore, and strangely enough tended to have the mentality of a dog. It was dangerous enough, because it has a large heavy tail it can use very effectively as a club, and if that did not work, it would simply ram anything threatening.
The Vesk changed the beast. They thickened the armor covering it and added a reflective coating, which would automatically reflect any incoming energy attacks approximately one in five times. Furthermore, they altered the internal structure so that it could generate a powerful electrical field once every 18 seconds, shocking anything near the creature. Of course because these creatures often fight as a small herd, they had to ensure that they did not kill one another with this burst, so they ensured the creatures were immune to electrical attacks.
Combat is what the creatures were created for and that is what they are always tasked with. The creatures will always turn their rears towards attackers in order to use their clubbed tails – which the Vesk were kind enough to add titanium spikes – in order to attack.
What vexes the Vesk is the fact that the creatures became highly inquisitive and playful after their augmentation. They do not see combat as actual combat – they see it as playtime! They do not actively charge targets in an attempt to kill or trample, but instead as simple play. The fact that the enemy tends to die during such charges is purely inconsequential to the creatures.
Since the pain receptors have been turned off, the creatures do not feel the wounds they sustain, and take attacks by other targets as the creatures playing right along with them.
This can be quite frustrating for the Vesk handlers, as with these creatures wanting to play all the time is not only annoying, but highly dangerous. The only way the Vesk have been able to curb this habit of these dino’s is to either drug them, or to ensure there is plenty of food for them to eat, as the creatures love food more than they love to play.
Vesk geneticists are working diligently to remove this annoying trait.
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