DOD Bestiary: Living cliff by Gilarah93, literature
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DOD Bestiary: Living cliff
Common Name: Living cliff (Rock monster)
Pronounced: (Living-cliff)
Classification: Granudomus gigas (Giant Granite-house)
SGOC Rank: Xenofauna (xenichthyoid)
Length / Width: up to 450 feet
Height: up to 230 feet
Weight: ???
Diet: Omnivore
Social Structure: Solitary
Home Planet: Europa (moon)
Distribution: Worldwide
IUCN Status: Endangered
Description:
The living cliff is an enormous Europan “coral” that’s made itself quite at home in the cold and foggy coastal waters of post-Cycle Earth.
A filter-feeder most commonly found on the coasts of Greenland and old Norway, a living cliff is a barnacle-like creature that spends
Common Name: Kraken
Pronounced: (Crack-n)
Classification: Xenoteuthis kraken (Alien-squid Kraken)
SGOC Rank: Xenofauna (xenichthyoid)
Tentacle Length: up to 300 feet
Diet: Carnivore
Social Structure: Solitary
Home Planet: Europa (moon)
Distribution: Worldwide
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
Description:
The kraken is a near-mythical xenichthyoid whose only evidence for existence is the remains found stuck to other predatory SGOs. No one has ever seen a kraken in its entirety, but the parts that have been seen are both enigmatic and terrifying.
All that is known of the kraken’s actual body is its tentacles and the occasional scraps of fl
DOD Bestiary: Elephant snail by Gilarah93, literature
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DOD Bestiary: Elephant snail
Common Name: Elephant snail (Space escargot)
Pronounced: (Elephant-snail)
Classification: Xenogastropus elephantopus (Elephant-footed Alien-stomach-foot)
SGOC Rank: Xenofauna (xenichthyoid)
Length: 510 feet
Height: 220 feet at the back (ground level)
Weight: 820 tons
Diet: Omnivore
Social Structure: Solitary
Home Planet: Europa (moon)
Distribution: Worldwide (deep seas)
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
Description:
The elephant snail (so named for its size and “trunk”) is a huge crawling xenichthyoid that vaguely resembles an Earth slug. One of Europa’s largest native creatures, it is also one of its most secretive.
Elephant
DOD Bestiary: Xenichthyoids 101 by Gilarah93, literature
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DOD Bestiary: Xenichthyoids 101
Common Name: Xenichthyoid (Alien fish, Space fish)
Pronounced: (Zen-ick-thee-oid)
Classification: Xenichthyoidea / sp.
SGOC Rank: Xenofauna
Home Planet: Europa (moon)
Distribution: Varies between species
IUCN Status: Varies between species
Description:
Xenichthyoids are a clade of extraterrestrial carbon-based animals that vaguely resemble Earth fish and invertebrates. Best described as “bugs with backbones”, xenichthyoids are natives of Europa, a moon that orbits the gas giant Jupiter. How exactly the Tyloban Empire managed to find, capture, and collect these creatures remains unknown.
Slightly smaller than Earth’s moon
Common Name: Planimal
Pronounced: (Plan-eh-mal)
Classification: Zooplantae / sp.
SGOC Rank: Xenoflora
Length: Various
Height: Various
Weight: Various
Diet: Omnivore / Photovore
Home Planet: Unknown
Distribution: Sri Lanka
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
Description:
Sri Lanka (known locally as Haritāgāra, Sinhala for “greenhouse”) is a collapsed nation that exists not far off the southeastern coast of India. Once a thriving nation rich in culture and natural beauty, all that was swept away come the end of the Titanomachy, when an escape pod belonging to the downed Tyloban habitation ship crash-landed on the island, freein
DOD Bestiary: Euxenotheres 101 by Gilarah93, literature
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DOD Bestiary: Euxenotheres 101
Common Name: Euxenothere (Alien mammal, Space mammal)
Pronounced: (You-zen-o-there)
Classification: Euxenotheria / sp.
SGOC Rank: Xenofauna
Home Planet: Mars (extinct)
Distribution: Varies between species
IUCN Status: Varies between species
Description:
Euxenotheres are a clade of extraterrestrial carbon-based animals that vaguely resemble Earth mammals. These creatures were the native fauna of Mars, the famous reddish-brown planet neighboring Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. Mars has been a dead planet for several million years now, and it is currently home only to primitive microorganisms and long-buried fossil remains.
Mars is a freezing