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Sauroposeidon Omniscience, the Radar that sees All
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Towering above the forest, looming over the Arks and high above your head stands Sauroposeidon Omniscience! Often found in small groups of two or three, Sauroposeidon spends its time living in marshy areas with plenty of plants for it to eat. They like to spend their time around trees and water, so swampy areas or other wet places like beaches and lakes are where they will most often be found. Touted as one of the tallest sauropods ever discovered, Sauroposeidon lives up to its name by being a massive animal that makes the largest predators look like compsognathus skittering around below it. Its intimidating stature means that anything in its way is likely to make room, for fear of being crushed in its wake. While not the heaviest of the Arks' titanosaurs, it makes up for its "lighter" status by being much more vigilant to approaching threats. With its towering height, Sauroposeidon is able to see farther than any other land-dwelling creature, which gives it plenty of advantage when it comes to watching out for predators - or survivors. In groups, their ability to see any approaching threat is extended, increasing the radius that they can detect danger. When a Sauroposeidon spots a threat, it bellows out to inform any other nearby creatures to flee (or fight, if they would be neutral to the threat). Considering Sauroposeidon is not the fastest animal, the advantage of knowing exactly where its natural threats are is essential to its survival. While Sauroposeidon can see more than any creature on an Ark, it doesn't exactly see better than anything. Plants and grasses tend to blend together, so Sauroposeidon will see anything that looks like a bush as a bush (ghillie!). If Sauroposeidon has trouble scanning its surrounding with its long neck, it has another tactic for finding any threats. Using a "seismic sonar", Sauroposeidon can use its weight to stomp the ground it stands on, sending out shockwaves that can detect any living thing around it that is moving around on the ground. Sauroposeidon will know exactly what is around it, and exactly where it is at the time the shockwave reached it, as long as it is moving. Anything that is not moving is much harder for the sauropod to notice, and it assumes stationary objects to be rocks or other natural formations. Any creature close to Sauroposeidon when it brings its foot down will be sent flying away a short distance, making it a useful technique not just for surveillance, but also for defense. Any tribe would love to have a Sauroposeidon to keep an eye out for enemies or predators. Taming a Sauroposeidon is a tricky task, as they are constantly on high alert. If a survivor manage to approach one without startling it, they will have to earn its trust by bonding with the giant. Waves of predators (increasing in quantity/difficulty depending on level) will spawn trying to attack Sauroposeidon, and it's up to the survivor(s) to defend the animal. Taming effectiveness is determined by how quickly waves are cleared and how many threats manage to reach the Sauroposeidon. Anything that gets close may be stomped on by the towering titan, so survivors would be wise to clear out any predators quickly, and to steer clear of those tree trunks for legs! Once all the waves are cleared, the taming process is complete. When tamed, Sauroposeidon acts like a sentry array, constantly watching for danger. Survivors will have the option to scan for other creatures, hostile creatures, other survivors, or anything that moves. The benefit of Sauroposeidon's height is that it can track larger, closer creatures most precisely, constantly revealing their position to its tribe (think Tek helmet visor), but anything beyond a certain point will just be marked (Parasaur alarm). Having multiple Sauroposeidon will increase the radius that creatures can be detected, and also slightly improves accuracy. When equipped with a saddle, a small camera will be placed in the muzzle on its head, allowing for a connection to a Tek Surveillance console. This will allow survivors to accurately track anything the Sauroposeidon can see. If equipped with a Tek saddle, Sauroposeidon's threat-detecting abilities are greatly enhanced, allowing it to track all creatures on the Ark (like S+ Transmitter). The Tek saddle has a built-in surveillance console that functions the same as the regular saddle. Sauroposeidon will still have the ability to slam its foot into the ground to send out a seismic wave and detect threats for its allies. The radius of the stomp can be increased by leveling up Sauroposeidon's weight stat. Once a threat has been detected, the tribe can decide through Sauroposeidon's radial menu how they want the situation handled: flee, fight or wait. Sauroposeidon will let out a bellow to whistle groups of the tribe's creatures to take out the threat, run from it, or stand and be ready to fight. While not exactly built for combat, Sauroposeidon is still an enormous animal that can do a lot of damage if it throws its weight around. It's height makes it difficult to do anything with its neck, but its tail can still be swung around to do damage. On top of that, it can use its weight for more than just scanning the ground: one heavy step can do a lot of damage to anything caught underneath of a Sauroposeidon. Anything that survives the crushing force of its foot will be knocked away. (I am not the best artist) -
Common Name: Tarbosaurus Species: Tarbosaurus bataar Time: Late Cretaceous Diet: Carnivore Temperament: Aggressive Wild Tarbosaurus bataar is a slightly smaller version of the T. Rex, and usually has brighter coloring than one. They usually hunt in pairs and are very territorial. When they spot something entering their territory, they usually attempt to intimidate it before attacking. These creatures have impeccable senses of smell, allowing them to smell prey from very large distances, so don’t think you’re safe just hiding behind a rock. Taming Taming this creature is very difficult as it can sniff you out even in a full ghillie suit. The only way to safely approach this creature is to let it know that you are not a threat. Slowly walk over to the creature with a low posture without any weapons whatsoever. If you do have a weapon, they will smell it and perceive you as a threat. Once you do get close enough, then you must feed it either deathworm horns or a special food like wyvern milk or nameless venom. Domesticated When domesticated, Tarbosaurus bataar becomes very useful for its owner is that is mainly thanks to one thing: it’s sense of smell. Tarbosaurus’ sense of smell allows it to detect anything in it’s vicinity, meaning traversing the dunes can be much safer as the Tarbosaurus can smell Deathworms, allowing survivors to avoid them. It’s sense of smell is so good, it can even smell how powerful something is, allowing it to assess a threat better than any other creature in the desert. It also has a mighty roar that is able to scare off smaller nuisances, but not as well as a Yutyrannus. Abilities - Normal bite attack, a little bit weaker than a rex - A stomp attack that can weakly damage stone and does knock back - Smell ability that allows it to smell creatures in a wide radius and can allow player to see the creature’s stats when close enough and can also be used to see the stats of eggs which can be useful when getting wyvern eggs (around the distance you need to be to see info on something with a spyglass) - Roar that is similar to a Yutyrannus roar that can scare things off as large as a carno, but doesn’t last as long as a yuty roar Wiki Page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbosaurus
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Yangchuanosaurus was a theropod from the middle-late Jurassic period, around the size of Allosaurus, it was surely an apex of its time. (art by SpinoinWonderland) My idea for Yangchuanosaurus is that it would be able to detect creatures using heat detection, like a snow owl. But it takes this a step further, it can analyze a creatures weak spots to do higher amounts of damage, and it can pinpoint a spot to grapple onto where it hold a creature in place to be continuously shredded with a species “deep wound bleed” that would lower a creatures resistance and make it take more damage. Making it an effective counter against the likes of stegosaurus. This grapple also works on bringing down flying creatures like argentavis, so you can bring down those annoyances who are normally hard to hit on a ground mount. (image by jagged fang designs) Now it’s not just a good counter against defensive creatures, it will have good pve aspects as well, it can use its advanced heat detection ability to detect if a sandstorm or heatwave is coming, and if a creature is high level, much like a glow pet. Additionally bodies of water can be detected, making it easier to traverse the vast desert for water. And one more feature of this ability is that it can mark locations using scent, while you can mark locations on your map, Yangchuanosaurus will give you the distance to how far you are from the location. It’s saddle is special too, it has a raised wooden part on top of it like a thorny dragon, but this will protect you from sandstorms and heatwaves, and also from fliers grabbing you. Additionally this saddle helps it carry perishable items as it reduces spoil time, making it an effective carrier of organic polymer. Speaking of organic polymer, it is an excellent gatherer of it, due to its preferred prey being the mantis. Back to the saddle, it also includes a built in mortar and pestle. Now, it’s taming method. My idea for the taming method will be that it’s like an equus, but you have to feed it it’s preferred food of organic polymer. TLDR: -Can detect sandstorms, heatwaves, bodies of water and high level creatures. Also detects weak points to grapple onto creatures which includes fliers. -Saddle protects rider from being grabbed, and from sandstorms and heatwaves. Saddle also reduces spoil time and has a mortar and pestle built in. -Can mark a location and tell you how far you are away from it. -Special bleed it inflicts that it reduces resistance on creatures, effective against stegosaurus.