Isotope-5 Droids

Barbed Ginx

Sharing a family tree with the more aggressive vrakes, barbed ginxes are relatively harmless, curious amphibians that frequent Makeb's marshes. Their name comes from the barbed "thumb" they use to peel off bark from trees or fallen logs while looking for insects to eat. Dep Aila, the first scientist to document the barbed ginx, encountered them when he left his speeder unattended and came back to find a small horde of ginx had peeled off the exterior casing, hoping to find food.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.barbed_ginx

→ exoboar

Exoboar

When a group of Makeb's early settlers explored the planet's underground caves, they encountered a vicious burrowing animal they named the exoboar. Surprisingly fast and armored with blaster-resistant leathery skin, the exoboars ripped up equipment and drove the settlers back until Sarthon Quis, a former career bodyguard, figured out that the boars were repelled by a particular herb growing in the caves. Rubbing the herb on their clothes allowed the settlers to pass safely.

In later years, Sarthon Quis became an acclaimed hunter of exoboars and even had a set of armor made from exoboar hide. Unfortunately, he wore it while on an expedition into even deeper caves and was devoured by a subteroth who took him for a particularly plump boar.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.exoboar

→ makrin_creeper

Makrin Creeper

Travelers in Makeb's wilderness may be tempted to make camp on small, inviting hillocks, not realizing that they are actually the backs of makrin creepers. These enormous beasts possess bark-like skin--actually cords of muscle--and grass-like nerve-rich tissues that blend in perfectly with their environment. Normally docile, makrin creepers can lash out with thick claws if attacked, disabling their attackers before crushing them to death.

Many tourists to Makeb are fascinated by makrin creepers. Some unscrupulous souvenir vendors have been caught selling tree branches as "creeper trophies."

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.makrin_creeper

→ pterathki

Pterathki

It is widely suspected that Makeb's recent groundquakes leveled a major pterathki nest, since these strangely elegant creatures have been seen flying over Talaos City in increasing numbers. Pterathkis normally hunt small animals, using their unusual tails to attract prey before spearing them with stabs of their powerful beaks.

Although there is little meat on a pterathki, they are known to be particularly delicious to the Hutt palate when basted in Dantooine cane syrup. Since Makeb's takeover, Hutt Cartel forces have been seen attempting to net pterathkis for their masters' tables--and earning scars from angry pterathki beaks.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.pterathki

→ subteroth

Subteroth

Subteroths linger in the nightmares of every Makeb explorer. Armored, muscular and utterly deadly, these hulking beasts typically live in deep underground caverns, where their eyes have atrophied over time. Instead, subteroths hunt using scent and the crest on the back of their head, a hypersensitive organ that picks up the electromagnetic fields of a prey's heartbeat and transmits it directly to the subteroth's nervous system.

Makeb's recent groundquakes have driven the subteroths out of their normal hunting grounds and toward the surface. Being surrounded by an abundance of prey and curious interlopers has driven the already-lethal subteroths into a feeding frenzy.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.subteroth

→ underwalker

Underwalker

"Underwalker" is the Makeb nickname for a species of subterranean insectoid carnivores. The shell of an underwalker is astonishingly resilient and shares the properties of some of Makeb's ores. Biologists believe that the underwalkers may have mutated over millennia of drinking water contaminated by mineral deposits.

Whatever they once were, underwalkers are a constant menace to Makeb's mining engineers because underwalker territory is often around the richest seams of mineral wealth. More than one underwalker has been sighted with tools lodged in its carapace: the sign of tragic events occurring around a newly bored drill shaft.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.underwalker

→ vrake

Vrake

Although currently abundant, the strikingly patterned vrakes were on the verge of extinction for more than a hundred years. An enterprising Makeb scientist, Kaylah Taprish, took a liking to the creatures--she claimed their faces reminded her of her favorite uncle--and spent five years studying and crossbreeding them before releasing a dozen new colonies into the wild. Unfortunately, with their numbers increased, vrakes have now become fiercely territorial.

The head crest of a vrake resembles the face of another Makeb predator, the thunderhead hawk. Vrakes use the crest to startle prey--usually birds and small rodents--for the rest of their colony to pounce on.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.vrake

→ yara

Yara

The sinuous, short-haired yaras are not native to Makeb. When a transport ship carrying the first settlers crash-landed three hundred years ago, a breeding pair of pedigree yaras in the cargo hold managed to escape and quickly adapted to Makeb's wilderness.

Yaras are highly adept swimmers, either hunting fish or lurking underwater to ambush their prey. Recent changes in Makeb's climate have driven them onto land, where they have found sentients to be a perfectly acceptable meal. There is some talk of domesticating the yaras, but centuries of running wild have made them a dangerous prospect as pets.

Category: Bestiary

Planet: 16141112529810539905

XP Level: 1

FQN: cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.yara

Category:	Bestiary
Related planet:	Makeb Beautiful, serene and abundant in resources, Makeb has grown to become one of the greatest resort destinations in the galaxy. For a time, wealthy executives and socialites flocked to the planet to enjoy its remote locale, comfortable climate and exotic vistas without any need for concern over political entanglements. Even the more frequent occurrence of groundquakes in recent years could not place a dent in Makeb's prosperous tourism, banking and mining trades. Recent events, however, have changed matters for the worse. With its precarious position on the edge of Hutt Space, Makeb has drawn the attention of the Hutt Cartel. Just what the Hutts intend for the planet remains to be seen. Category: Planets FQN: cdx.planets.makeb Makeb
Unlockable by:	all classes
Faction:	Republic
XP level:	1

Added with:	Patch 2.0.0
Global ID:	16141026778274091589
Codex ID:	2623
FQN:	cdx.chapter_4.makeb.bestiary.isotope_5_droids
Star Wars name:	Isotope-5 Droids
Other languages:	Isotop-5-Droiden Droïdes à isotope 5
Other sites:	TORCommunity

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