Based on a little something 89er stated in passing in some fluff text...
Shemarrian EcoS-K-36 ‘Terragore’ Mining Beast(Aka ‘Conqueror Wyrm’, ‘Metal Maw’, ‘Bore Worm’)
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/taalismn/img258.jpg “It’s not worth landing on that death-planet, I tell you! Don’t believe what they say about ships’ sensors showing treasure troves of lost technology or giant deposits of metal ready for the taking! Even if you get down through the acid clouds, and secure yourself against the fire storms, shifting landscape and the shrapnel hurricanes, and somehow survive the EM bojuums overloading your systems with ancient alien chatter, the worms will get you for sure! I lost three ships and almost all my friends to them things when they came a-calling! Wasn’t anything in our arsenal that could stop them before they swallowed down the entire mining site! I barely got my escape pod clear before one monster of a wyrm finished scarving down my ship, crew and all! Last I saw of them was their tail jets vanishing down into that giant maw! No, it’s not worth what one would get for any scrap lifted from that old dead hellhole! Stay well away from that place! It’s horrible death!!”
Captain R’tor groaned as he strained again at whatever was holding him. As before, he couldn’t tell what it was, but it wasn’t letting him go.
The last he remembered was the feeling of the world falling out from under him and his ship tipping forward, the sight of hundreds of gleaming teeth descending on the bridge canopy, then the sounds of ripping tearing metal and the room filling with darkness. After that, things only became more confused and painful before he slowly came to his senses. Not that that told him anything. All he could tell for sure was that he was in someplace cold and dark that stank of metal. He also had a vague recollection of seeing several members of his crew, stripped and laid out unconscious in glowing boxes, being taken away. That rather worried him; some of them had proven quite useful in the past and he’d been amorously eying that young hot-looking mechpilot with the falsified credentials he’d hired on Gesturn not so long ago...
/”Ah, Captain R’tor. Awake at last.”/ And he was clearly a prisoner.
“Who the hell are you and what have you done with my ship!?”
/”We are the inhabitants of this world and we have appropriated your vessel and its contents as the penalty-price of your trespass.”/ “Holgafog! There hasn’t been a civilization on Hedoro for over seven hundred years! You be claim-jumpers!”
/”We are the inhabitants of this world and we have the power to enforce our will over those who trespass on it. That includes your ‘salvage’ operation and your crew.”/ “What are you doing to me crew?!”
/”Some of them, we have use for. Others, like yourself, we have other uses for.”/ “What are you, now threatening me?!”
/”Ah, and now we come to you, Captain R’tor. You’ve been involved in more than the salvage business, up to more than vulturing supposedly dead worlds. Why, not even all your own crew know what you’ve been up to, or what depths you’ve descended to.”/ “What are you talking about, you cowardly kidnappers!? My people will know of this! They'll come looking for me, and YOU!”
/”Do they know of your contacts with the Exiles? The ‘special’ services you provide them? How about Naruni Enterprises? The finds you looted for them, your previous crews that you disposed of to keep those finds secret? The lives you ripped away for cash? Those who you sold to your backers for credits? The ones who pay you for 'plausible deniability'? Captain R’tor is not the humble honest Fringe-captain he makes himself out to be, is he now? Indeed, he works for the very sort of people his crew would not. The sort of people they thought they were escaping when they hired under him, no? ”/ “How-NO, you bastards! It’s tricks! Tricks and lies!”
/”The only tricks and lies are those you yourself use and tell. They will not serve you here. You came to this world to face judgment, however unknowingly. The wyrms sought you out, devoured you, and brought you here to account at last for your crimes. Through the belly of the wyrm, you shall at last face an appropriate justice.”/ These MASSIVE vermiform monstrosities can only have come from the minds of the Nightmare Tribe. They seem to draw inspiration from a variety of sources, including Worms of Taut, Giant Ruin Worms, Australian Sand Fiends, and the Dwarven ‘Duggernaught’ mole miners.
Seeming appearance-wise the hellspawn offspring of an oversized ruin-worm and a robotics factory, the Terragore looks like a massive fat worm with a circular maw lined with hundreds of sharp jagged ceramo-metal teeth, surrounded by a ring of armor, multiple eyes, and articulated spines. The body itself looks like a combination of old plaited rubber, metal bellows joints, and leathery flesh, lined with multiple small articulated spine-tentacles.
Terragores bore through solid rock and geology using a combination of super-hard cutting surfaces, vibro-cutters, short range lasers, acid sprayers and plasma melters. A portion of the material cut through is ‘eaten’ by the Terragore to feed its nanite repair system, allowing it to grow new cutting spines, abrading surfaces, and skin as they wear down. Other material is sorted, shifted, filtered, and stored for later use or disgorgement at a collection point for Shemarrian industry. The ‘other material’ can also include items scavenged from dig sites, battlefields, and ruins, and can include weapons, equipment, and even living beings.
A favorite tactic of Terragores is to suddenly surface under an opponent, spear them with its grasping tentacles and crush them in its maw. The Terragore can also engage targets with its lasers and plasma breath. If a target, such as a fortified position, vehicle, or ship, proves too tough to take on directly, the Terragore will attempt to undercut and bury it, then devour it at leisure. If required, the Terragore can take targets alive, ‘devouring’ them whole but instead routing them to a holding ‘stomach’ for later interrogation.
Surprisingly, Terragores are, for the most part, NOT Awakened and do NOT hold an Ecotroz Essence fragment. Like the Orobos serpentine warmount, they are typically not crewed either(though they have a small internal compartment if a Shemarrian wishes to personally direct one), but are allowed to roam free, patrolling a region or burrowing through a mineral-rich area. They are smart enough to be able to direct themselves for the most part, and ‘instinctively’ seek out mineral-rich ores, metal salvage, construct crude fortifications, and even make simple traps(especially dead falls and concealed undercut pits beneath surface paths and potential landing zones).
Terragores first appeared as part of the defenses of the secret R&D Outpost Hedoro(where they were assumed by outsiders to be some sort of surviving mutants or still functioning techno-organic relics of the now-extinct civilization that once reigned there), but the giant cyberbeasts have since begun appearing(less obviously) on other Shemarrian worlds as mining and excavation labor-animals. The Lost Eclipse uses these mammoth robeasts to excavate their deep tunnel enclave-complexes and to mine minerals for trade to other Tribes.
Type: EcoS-K-36 Terragore
Class: Robotic Warmount, Subterranean Excavation/Attack
Crew: None; robot intelligence
1 rider/pilot, and room for 1 passenger inside if so desired, though the Terragore typically operates without a rider
MDC/Armor by Location:
Main Body 2,000
Head 900
Laser Eyes(20) 50 each
Reinforced Crew Compartment 500
Prisoner/Cargo Compartment 500
Maw Teeth(100) 10 each
Head Tentacles(8 ) 250 each
Body Spines(50) 55 each
Height: 20-30 ft, can rear up a third of its body length.
Width: 20-30 ft
Length: 150-250 ft
Weight: 80-100 tons
Cargo: Internal cargo compartment can hold 8 tons of cargo or a dozen prisoners. Additional ore holds inside the Terragore can hold up to 60 tons of ore/scrap metal.
Physical Strength: Equivalent to Robotic P.S. of 45
Powerplant: Nuclear w/ 20 year energy life
Speed: (Aboveground) 25 MPH
(Tunneling) Varies according to the depth and composition of the material being tunneled through. The Terragore can tunnel through loose sand and clay at about 40 MPH, or 30 MPH through dense rock(granite, regolith).
(Flying) Not possible
(Space) Not possible
(Underwater) Can crawl along the bottom of bodies of water at about 22 MPH. Maximum depth of 4 miles.
Market Cost: Exclusive to the Ecotroz-Shemar
Systems of Note:
Full optical systems, laser targeting, passive nightvision, telescopic vision, thermal imaging, infrared, ultraviolet, and polarization filters. Also has motion and heat detection, built-in radar( 60 mile range) and other standard power armor-equivalent systems. Additional/special sensors may be built in by the creating Spinsters or at the behest of individual riders/owners.
Basic Robot Systems, plus:
*Magnetometer--Great for detecting veins of metal ores, buried pipes, underground fusion nuclear powerplants(detects the magnetic core containment fields) and buried metal objects. Range of 3,000 ft
*Seismometer---Subterranean ‘sonar’. Effective ‘active’ range of 4,000 ft. Can also passively pick up seismic events, including movement of large vehicles/large numbers of animals/beings from up to a mile away.
*Inertial Navigation System---Essential for finding one’s way when you can’t just crack open a window and take a reading off the sun, stars, or convenient landmarks. Records the beast’s passage, angle, direction, and speed, allowing the robot to produce a turn-by-turn map of its travels.
*Heat Resistant Armor---The thick armor of the Terragore is made of special thermo-refractory materials that reflect heat, while a high-powered cooling system shunts additional heat(such as from its own plasma cutters) away. Plasma and heat-based attacks do 1/4 normal damage; lasers only do 1/2 normal damage.
*Bionic Cybernanite Repair Systems---ALL Terragore have the same bionic nanotech repair system that the Ecotroz Shemar have refitted themselves with, and which is becoming the standard among NeShemar as well. These systems repair 1d8x10 MD per hour, and can repair 400 MDC before needing material stocks to convert to MD repair material.
Weapons Systems:
1) Laser Eyes(20)---What look like a ring of rough gemstones set in a ring around the head/maw is really a laser array, typically used for cutting through rock and debris, but which can also be used to engage targets at range.
Range: 4,000 ft
Damage: 4d6 MD each eye, 4d6x20 MD for a full array blast.
Rate of Fire: ECHH
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
2) Plasma Cutter Head---The entire front end of the Terragore is a massive combination mechanical drill-auger/cutter head and plasma cutter.
Range:(Bore Mode) 5 ft
(‘Thrower Mode) 1,000 ft
Damage::(Bore Mode)1d6x100 per full melee of contact(cutting)
(‘Thrower Mode) 3d4x10 MD per blast
Rate of Fire:(Bore Mode) Once per melee(continuously on in cutter mode)
(‘Thrower Mode) ECHH
Payload: Effectively Unlimited
Note: Approaching the Terragore from behind while engaged in tunneling operations at full bore is hazardous in itself, owing to the volume and temperature of hot gases being blown back. Beings without protective body armor and breathing apparatus can be asphyxiated, cooked, and/or plated in rapidly condensing rock vapor.
Also, anything coming into contact with the rear cooling fins takes 1d4 MD from the heat.
Consider anyone approaching within one hundred feet of the rear of the Terragore to be in its danger zone, as hot gas and vaporized rock is blown back at them; SDC beings without self-contained breathing apparatus and skin protection will take 2d4x10 SDC per melee of exposure from the heat and choking gas. Even supernatural beings will be in trouble; beings that need to breath air will have to roll versus lethal poison(16 or better) every melee that they are exposed, or risk choking on fumes(GMs, use your discretion....most high-MDC beings of supernatural constitution may survive, but superhumans and other ‘demi-mortals’ could very well asphyxiate).
The hot gas also renders thermo-vision useless, the noise degrades the effectiveness of enhanced hearing by HALF, and people caught in the backblast will be at HALF bonuses to strike, parry, and dodge while in the danger zone.
3) Cutter Maw---The Terragore’s circular mouth is lined with multiple rows of jaggedly sharp ceramometal teeth, the whole mouth rotating for extra grinding action.
Range: Melee
Damage: Bite does 2d4x10 MD, 6d6x10 MD per full melee of cutting
Rate of Fire: ECHH
Payload: Effectively Unlimited; on average a cutting tooth can last 56 hours of continuous cutting before needing replacement.
4) Capture-Glop----This prisoner capture mechanism was copied from the Taut Blowworm. The Terragore can ‘spit’ a stream of fast-setting polymer goop that rapidly solidifies around its target. Once the target is trapped, the Terragore then uses the solidified threads of ‘spit’ and its head tentacles to draw the encased victim into its maw, and then into a holding chamber inside itself. The polymer is air-permeable, so the victim can still breath, but prolonged confinement inside the robowrym’s ‘gullet’ is akin to sensory deprivation, and some prisoners have been known to go mad from the experience.
Range: 200 ft
Damage: None, but the blob of goo covers a 10 ft area and sets instantly in 1 melee. Anyone caught in the goo must have a supernatural or robotic PS of 40 or better to break free; otherwise they are stuck until the goo is somehow removed. The goo has 60 MDC per 10 ft application.
Rate of Fire: ECHH
Payload: 100 applications before needing restocking.
5)Head Tentacles(8 )---These are articulated armatures, each ending in a wicked-looking vibroblade, with an attached grasper or hook. Besides being able to stab, the head tentacles can deliver a powerful electrical shock, or generate an electrical arc between each armature, powerful enough to overload and knock out electrical systems.
Range: 40 ft long
(Electrical Arc) The electrical arc jumps between energized arms, so a common tactic is to spread the arms wide, forming a 110 ft wide ring(with the Terragore’s head at the center) to catch and stun prey for biting or capture.
Damage:
Restrained Punch 1d6 MD
Full Strength Punch 3d6 MD
Power Punch(2 attacks) 1d6x10 MD
(Vibroblade) 6d6 MD(+possible punch damage) per stab
(Electrical Shock) Organic targets roll for Stun; save at 16 or better or be -8 to strike, dodge, parry, roll, and initiative, reduce APMs and Spd by HALF, for 2d4 melee rds. A successful save means lose only initiative and 1 APM for 1 melee round.
50% chance of knocking out unshielded electronics(or 1d4 subsystems like radio, electronic image amplification, cybernetic sensory implant, or the like) for 1d4 melees.
On an unmodified roll of 18-20, it causes unshielded BIONICS and robots to spasm for 1d4 melees(Cyborg is at HALF bonuses to strike, parry, dodge, roll, and is -3 to initiative. Reduce speed by HALF).
Beings susceptible to electricity take DOUBLE damage.
(Electrical Arc) 4d6 MD per melee caught in the zone of effect, plus the following:
01-15: No additional damage
16-30 Instruments flicker out, before coming back online in 1d4 seconds. Target loses Initiative.
31-45 All weapons temporarily out, and minor electrical fires. One system comes back online in 1d4 melee rds.
46-60 All systems temporarily out, and minor electrical fires. -30% to piloting skills if target is a manned vehicle. Systems come back online after 1d4 melee rds.
61-75 Communications, radar, and targeting are disabled, but weapons systems are unaffected. -3 to strike and no initiative. Damage requires physical repair.
76-90 Instruments are completely totaled. If a manned vehicle)including cyborgs), the following skill penalties apply; -25% at one-third of maximum speed, -50% at HALF maximum speed, and -75% at full speed. NO initiative roll, -3 to dodge(-5 if an AI), -3 to strike(-5 if an AI), and lose one action per melee round(2 if an AI)
91-00 Total knockout. Controls do not respond, and machine is out of control(cyborgs are paralyzed). Crash/collapse/total shutdown within 2d4 minutes.
6) Acid Spray----The Terragore can spray powerful dissolving acid from pores on its head and body, akin to a super-sized cyborg chemical spray system. This is typically used to help the giant beast melt its way through tough rock, but it also be sprayed on enemies in a particularly horrible attack.
Range: 80 ft
Damage: 3d6 MD first round, and 2d4 MD per melee for 2d4 melees. Covers a 10 ft area.
Rate of Fire: ECHH
Payload: 100 shots before needing refill; the Terragore’s systems can catalyze and produce a new supply of acid within 24 hours.
7)Body Spikes(50)---These are smaller articulated spines that line the body and are used for pulling the giant robowyrm along. They can also be used to lash out at anybody approaching the ‘wrym’s body too closely. Close inspection(difficult to do if the ‘wrym objects) will show that they resemble the back spines of the Shemarrian Monstrex warsteed.
Range: 12 ft
Damage: 1d6 MD on a thrust
Rate of Fire: Each body spike can attack four times per melee
Programming:
Typically has the following:
Standard Monstrex Programming, plus;
Excavation 85%
Mining 90%
Salvage 80%
Trap Construction 75%
Trap/Mine Detection 90%
Military Fortification 70%
Camouflage 80%
Actions/Attacks Per Melee: 6 main body, bite, or tentacle attacks (also note that each of the 50 body spikes can attack up to four times per melee any target that gets within range)
Initiative +2 (+1 from the Ecotroz entity for a total of +3)
Dodge +3
Strike +1 (+2 w/ ranged weaponry)
Roll +2
Entangle +2
Bite 2d4x10 MD
Head Butt 1d4x10 MD
Head Tentacle Restrained Punch 1d6 MD
Head Tentacle Full Strength Punch 3d6 MD
Head Tentacle Power Punch(2 attacks) 1d6x10 MD
Stab with Body Spines 1d6 MD
Tail Lash 6d6 MD
Body Slam(Terragore rears up and slams a third of its body length down on top of a target)(2 attacks) 2d6x10 MD
Variants:
*”Worm Mother” (aka ‘Grub Queen’)---This is a Terragore outfitted as a manufactory for Boresnake drones. The ‘Worm Mother’ can produce, with enough materials, up to 15 Boresnake drones every 30 minutes, and store and deploy up to 300 of the drones at once.
Option:
If ‘Awakened’, the Terragore will have the following:
Note: The Ecotroz intelligence fragment inhabiting the ‘bot gives the Terragore an aura and behavior more befitting a sentient being than a robot. However, the Terragore tends to posses a rather vicious, temperamental, attitude more akin to that of an angry Cape Buffalo or Rhino-Buffalo, and it will readily attack any intruders in its territory unless ordered not to. They are also ravenous creatures, happiest when chewing through rock or devouring enemies.
The Ecotroz entity can also pick up one Secondary skill at levels 2, 6, and 12 of experience, though the nature of the Terragore intelligence and design is such that it is limited to skill selections from Technical: Language(understanding) and Lore, Espionage(Detect Ambush, Detect Concealment), Wilderness(Track Humanoids, Track Animals, Hunting, Identify Plants and Fruits).
Has the following Natural Psionic Abilities(no ISP Cost), all equivalent to 6th level with regards to range and proficiency.
*Presence Sense
The Ecotroz fragment does occasionally need sleep/rest...though they only need 2 hours of rest/meditation per 24 hours...they can push this, going without for as many days as they have I.Q. points, but will have to go dormant for 4d6 hours after such exertion.
Susceptible to Exorcism and Banish spells, but are +6 to save against such spells, +1 at levels 4, 8, and 12 of experience, and becoming IMMUNE at level 14 and up. Such Banishment causes the ‘bot to revert to its default robot programming. (OPTION: Ecotroz may become IMMUNE to Exorcism and Banishment with experience, and NEW BUILT EShemar constructs are immune to this)
Note also that the Ecotroz-possessed ‘bot can infect other bots with the Ecotroz viral-entity, by bite or sustained touch(takes 3 attacks).
. Clanging. 
Diabetics go into sugary shock.
“....”
SMACK) reboot. re-initializing. on-line. WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!”
