| Nickname | Qachamzok; Qachamzok Twintail; Twintail Trillium |
| Species | Giant sapient /Megarhyssa macrurus/ |
| Age | 137 |
| Birthday | August, 5 |
| Gender | Hermaphrodite (female-presenting) |
| Arrival Method | Yellow Breach |
| Player | Halian |
| Status | Critique Requested |
Description
Default
- Height: 3'3" — 100 cm
- Length: 36'5" — 1111 cm
- Weight: 537.98lbs — 243.98kg
- Body Type: Insect
- Voice: Rapid-fire mouthpart clicks, etc.
- Description:
A giant sapient /Megarhyssa atrata/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megarhyssa_atrata), slender and elegant, with two tails and two very long ovipositors, standing on all sixes. Their shell is pockmarked with scars from decades of space piracy, and they have a silver trillium pattern laser-etched on the back of their thorax, near the junction with the tails.
Upright
- Height: 5'9" — 175 cm
- Length: 29'6" — 900 cm
- Weight: 537.98lbs — 243.98kg
- Body Type: Bipedal
- Description:
A giant sapient /Megarhyssa atrata/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megarhyssa_atrata), slender and elegant, with two tails and two very long ovipositors, standing on their rear legs and using their tails & ovipositors for balance.
Homeworld
Megarhyssai come from the Safìr Alliance; they keep the identity and location of their homeworld secret. There is a sizable planetside population on Daia, which is more docile than, and societally unconnected to, the main culture of space piracy.
History
Vocational
Space pirate captain
Megarhyssai, both standard and tauric, are space pirates who board starcraft and return them to their territory, thence to use the crew for incubation, as their original prey species are long extinct. Qachamzok's band is notable for being one of relatively few not to count any taurs among its ranks.
Personal
Qchmzk-1410/1411-hktkthkkz-klqkskkhklqkskkh, 366th and 367th daughter of Hktkthkkz-120-klqkskkhklqkskkh-lzltkkqkhzhlzltkkqkhzh, the 48th son of Klqkskkhklqkskkh-05-lzltkkqkhzhlzltkkqkhzh-zqt, the dowager admiral-magess of Band 0312, Emerged on August 5th, 1888, from a cell aboard the band's flag vessel that was populated with a naga substrate. (Twin-tailed megarhyssai are the result of their mother laying two eggs on the same prey item, and one larva consuming the other, hence the dual designation.) Their father led a failed mutiny against his mother during Qachamzok's pupation, for which he was executed and his daughters denied mating at Emergence; as such, they are still a virgin, despite their age. They quickly rose through the ranks and now command a native Pattern 225 battleship, chief among its subgroup. The most notorious of Qachamzok's conquests was a pair of derelict ancient safìr generation ships, whose bumper crop of taurogenic (albeit stasis-frozen) prey items has yet to be exhausted. The trillium laser-etched onto their back is believed to be some sort of medal, and it is by this marking, plus their twin tails, that they are known to the Safìr Alliance.
Inventory
Items
Scouter (Edit)
A brain-computer interface attached to the base of their right antenna, with an armature reaching around their head to present a scouter-style display in front of their compound eye. Fills a similar role to a datapad or tablet.
Radio implant (Edit)
Cybernetic implants for encrypted radio communication using their ovipositor as a dipole antenna. Their ovipositor is 6.89 m long, resulting in a frequency of 20.704 MHz.
Weapons
Pattern 16104 beam rifle
- A 3 kg particle beam rifle that mounts to the end of the user's ovipositor, with no outwardly visible trigger. Has single-shot and four-shot burst modes, both of which require a cooldown afterward (longer in burst mode). Roughly equivalent to the Covenant plasma rifle from /Halo/.
- Effective range from character: 50 m
- Normal Power: Muzzle velocity 120 m/s. Single shots consume 1/144 of battery; bursts consume 1/24 of battery. Battery is easily removable for replacement, but requires a shipboard charger that is not bug-portable.
- Quantity: 2
Ovipositors/stingers (Edit)
- Megarhyssa ovipositors, in addition to being used to deposit eggs on the crew of the ships they capture, can also be used as stingers, injecting venom into the target. They can control the composition of their venom, and concoct several different vena at will, all of which are fiendishly complex, littered with polydnavira (a family of insect vira integrated into wasp genomes) endogenous to the individual megarhyssa, and ever evolving to avert the development of natural antivena. Megarhyssa venom can be incredibly potent, with a single bubble's worth of some formulae being able to incapacitate a dragon.
When deploying venom, megarhyssai produce orders of magnitude more of it than the relevant glands can hold, requiring them to use their bubble as a holding chamber, whereupon it inflates into a sphere instead of a flat circle; this often requires them to discard unused venom by “spraying” it out of their ovipositors.
Megarhyssai are immune to their own vena. It takes a megarhyssa anywhere from several hours to several days to be able to produce new venom, depending on the desired formula and potency. - Effective range from character: Mêlée.
- Quantity: 2
Mouthparts (Edit)
- Their mouthparts include a labrum with a long row of thick spines along the outer edge, maxillae, and mandibles with two teeth each.
- Effective range from character: Mêlée.
Skills
Combat
- Marksbugship
- Training:
Qachamzok is qualified on the pattern 16104 beam rifle as both a user and an instructor, as well as other weapons not brought with them through the Breach, and has earned several citations for their marksbugship.
- Training:
Non-combat
- Starship piloting
- Description:
As the captain of a spaceship before Breaching, Qachamzok is well-versed in piloting and helmsbugship of starcraft, both megarhyssan and of other (usually captured) Safìr Alliance patterns. They're more comfortable in the cavernous interior spaces of a natively-designed spaceship, though.
- Description:
Education
- Spacefleet trainingQachamzok was sent to learn the ropes soon after Emergence, which included officer candidate training.
Language
- Megarhyssan
- Encrypted tail-radio
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| Timelord | Jul 12, 2026 4:18 AM Re: Qchmzk-1410/1411-hktkthkkz-klqkskkhklqkskkh This character is unique to the point a proper reference picture is effectively required so that others can visualize the scene. The character is unique even to the reference insect picture which is already difficult to mentally translate into scene. The way the venom creation reads, it sounds like a full spectrum chem lab able to produce deadliest toxin all the way to grape soda on demand. Lots of big smart people words. This makes understanding what the heck is going on even more difficult. In short, add some ELI5 context to what is currently your entomology thesis project along with pictures so we less capable minds stand a chance. |
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