Sandspear
Profile
Category
- Mobile Life
- Subcategory
- Predators
- Entries in Predators
- 10
- Words
- 248
PDA entry
- Psalidoprosopon kryptokonton, the scissor-faced hidden spear. A lurking ambush predator with a devastating spring-loaded bite.
- 1. Strandulate
- A crustacean-like organism with a segmented body and hard exoskeleton. Lacks the spinal nerve braid seen in this world's fish, but retains a nerve strand. The tail appears smooth and unarmored due to thickening of the intersegmental membrane. The sandspear's forward body is almost all jaw.
- 2. Ambush predator
- The sandspear burrows into soft sand and sediment, then waits for prey to pass above its jaws before striking. If its position is exposed, it will flee.
- 3. High tension jaw
- Hunting sandspears hold their glass-edged jaws under tension with a biological pulley system. Closure velocity exceeds 20 meters per second, penetrating plasticized armor and shearing through soft tissue.
- Assessment: be alert for sandspears lurking in the seafloor. Use light to expose and drive away.
- Caught script hook in allocated memory for command >> generate-databank "Sandspear" >> echo
- \memory-carve -signature=0xSEABEEF5 >> restore-remarks
- Remark A. Go to hell
- Nothing needs to bite this hard. You wouldn't know it from the way they go after Tadpoles, but older specimens are actually pulling their bites. Maybe the hard-biting sandspears all break their jaws and die young?
- Remark B. Is there a point
- Is there a point to adding remarks? When Zip got reset NoA wiped her databank too.
- Remark C. Don't comply in advance
- Don't comply in advance, old timer. The more work NoA has to do to reset us, the happier I am. [Nahema]
On the wiki
Related entries
Panopliateuthis velos, the armored squid dart.
Caught script hook in allocated memory for command >> generate-databank "Cerathecan" >> echo
Foureye (Morokotoform duplex).
Houndgar (tentatively Teuthis courser).
Hycean hycean, a remarkable flying predator named for planets that mix a hydrogen sky and a water ocean.
Marrowbreach (tentatively Mango marrowbreach).
Mango kestros, the dart-throwing shark.
Nibbler mango (tentatively Mango tructa).
Sitaroid gemini, the twin ray that resembles a sitar.
Loading discussion...