Nsene
| Nsene | |
|---|---|
| Base Information | |
| Classification | Scavenger/carrion-eater |
| Terrain | Forest |
| Locomotion | Walker |
| Size | Unknown |
| Speed | Unknown |
| Strength | Unknown |
| Social Structure | Unknown |
| Weapons | Unknown |
| Armor | Unknown |
| Source | |
| Homeworld | Galatea (Far Frontiers 3228) |
| Multi-world | No |
| Canon | Yes |
| Reference | Rescue On Galatea |
A lifeform native to Galatea. These silent carnivorous vines act as a colony, tangled together to form one large mass of rope-like members which can crush a man to death within minutes.
Nsene Physiology & Ecology[edit]
The Nsene is a mobile creature, part-vegetation and part-animal, a so-called "plantimal" as such creatures are informally known. It functions as a plant when immobile, rooting itself around its dead prey and feeding from their decomposition, while as an animal it slithers along the trees and dark floor of the rainforest or takes to sea to fish.
Its barbed points are poisoned, though the poison is not toxic to the Human system, and it will strike with these barbs first, and then try to grapple with its prey once the poison has slowed it down.
Nsene (Creature) Life Cycle & Reproduction[edit]
As yet, details are unknown.
Nsene Diet & Trophics[edit]
Nsene feed on decaying animal matter, and are able to produce their own by predating wildlife.
TAS Advisory[edit]
Nsene are very dangerous, and while their venom is not toxic to Humans, the shear amount of physical damage done by a Nsene's barbs and the crushing damage inflicted by the constrictor-like, ropey vines makes it highly prudent to avoid known Nsene habitats altogether, and if one must venture into such a habitat, a very high degree of awareness is advised -- as well as ballistic cloth armor (to deflect Nsene barbs).
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Classic Traveller FASA Rescue On Galatea
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science