Talk:Aberrant 2.0 Starships
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Sundogs
The infamous steeds of the Khaganate, 'Sundogs' are living starships capable of warp travel. Looking more or less like ancient pulp-fiction rockets with skins the consistancy of whaleskin, they are typically about 5-6 meters long and several tons in weight. Skin color varies across essentially all shades of earth tones and creams. Most of a Sundog's body mass is made up of modified neural tissue and energy-patterning nodes which appear to be distantly related to the M-R nodes of Novas. While most of this goes towards enabling a biological warp gate, a fraction of this supports the open-containment biological fusion drive that manifests between the aft fins. Sundogs have no eyes or other obvious sensory aparatus, appearing to use some novel form of quantum sensing for navigation and perception.
Sundogs are weak telepaths with intelligence comparable to dogs or horses. This telepathy is limited to connecting with its rider, allowing them to share a mental link. While Sundogs have no intrinsic weaponry (that being the domain of their inevitably taint-mutated riders) their thick skin's toughness is rated at least 6 on the Modified Sayed Scale, making them functionally invulnerable to small arms fire and completely capable of atmospheric re-entry and even supercavitating oceanic travel.
Compared to the Tesser system used by the UN or various Edenite warp drive techniques, Sundogs are fairly slow intestellar travellers, capable of making no more than one jump a week of no more than ~1 LY distance. However, Sundogs can 'swarm', drastically increasing the amount of mass they can carry. This is used by the Khaganate to move their bubble habitats between stars.
The modified M-R nodal material found in Sundogs point towards a human origin but so far no firm intelligence has emerged as to the originator of Sundogs. Creating such entities seems to be far beyond the intellectual and technical abilities of the Khaganate.
Caution: Sundogs emit small amounts of quantum radiation at all times. Do not approach unless wearing class-III or above rated Q-protective gear.