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The following five creatures are all natives of the world known as Gupbinide, the closest planet to the Beta Octant's sun of Lihttous.
• Ugluncar: The indigenous humanoid race of Gupbinide. Having maintained a stable, comfortable dominance over most of the planet's resources since approximately the middle of the Second Century Relative and onward, Ugluncars are of medium height and have leathery red skin as well as prong-ended tails and three horns atop their heads. A rather savage people by nature, they are notable for being the only humanoids in the Prime Galaxy to be strictly and exclusively carnivorous, with their racial diet consisting entirely of animal meat and them having no need nor desire to consume vegetable matter; this quirk is shared by multiple other Gupbinide creatures, hence the world's reputation as the Prime Galaxy's "meatiest" planet. In addition to every single type of Gupbinide animal being on their "menu", Ugluncars have demonstrated the ability to consume numerous varieties of creatures native to other planets, some of which are not even edible to the humanoids on their own respective worlds. In fact, the range of entities that Ugluncars are able and willing to eat, consisting, again, of meats alone, is larger than that of almost any other humanoid race, all of whose diets include vegetation. Even cannibalism, though still far from being considered "normal", is more common among their kind than most. Their very fast metabolisms actually requiring that they eat more constantly than others, overeating and obesity are non-issues for them, and predictably per the principle of "you are what you eat", they tend to be very strong and muscular. The Ugluncars' inclination toward lifelong healthiness comes, though, at a price of longevity for them, as due in no small part to their aforementioned speedy metabolisms, their bodily systems are prone to long-term burnout, and they seldom live past sixty years of age.
Ugluncars actively pride themselves on their voraciousness, and base much of their culture around eating. They tend to get creative with preparing and arranging their meals, and those who live away from their species' homeworld often pursue culinarily-related professions within galactic society.
All adult Ugluncars possess durability values greater than 700 and less than 1,000.
• Benmendaur: Gupbinide's largest native creature, this beast is believed by the Ugluncar people to have been created and introduced to the planet's environment well after its and their own coming into being as an answer to their ancestors' prayers for more and better meat, and to be specifically designed as a living "goldmine" of edible flesh whose bountiful bodily spoils were offset as a blessing by the challenge that lie in killing the creature and obtaining its tender tissue. There has been no word from divine sources confirming or denying this theory, though considering the edibility - and deliciousness - of nearly every fiber of the Benmendaur's body, it does seem to make a fair bit of sense.
Also colloquially known as the "Meat Behemoth", the Benmendaur stands between fifteen and twenty feet in height and is very broadly, widely built, being capable of weighing up to several tons. It is a rather dumb animal, its flat top and lack of a discernible cranium being a good indicator of how much space is allotted to its brains. Being, again, pretty much made out of edible meat, it has next to zero body fat and is extremely physically strong with its immense concentrations of beefy muscle tissue. Its "face" being completely featureless save for two bright-yellow, empty eyeballs, the Benmendaur has three mouths: two inside the palms of either of its three-clawed hands and a third mounted upon its midsection; all three are massive, gaping maws capable of swallowing many humanoids, including Ugluncars, whole. The stomping of the beast's three massive legs presents another potential threat while hunting it, a very dangerous activity that usually takes several individuals to bring down a single Benmendaur. When one is successfully slain, however, those responsible and their communities are well-rewarded for the feat, for just one of these creatures can feed up to a dozen Ugluncars for just as many days, and its meat is, furthermore, particularly tasty and nutritious.
The average durability value range for a Benmendaur comes out to around 2,000-2,500.
• Swabmide: One of the few omnivores on a planet with no true herbivores, Swabmides are semi-segmented, upright-standing animals commonly kept in controlled environments as livestock by/for Ugluncars; at present, there are roughly equal numbers of the creatures living in their natural state and held in captivity. They comprise the most common and readily-accessible source of red meat for the humanoids. Though officially, and correctly, given its fuzzy textures and warm blood, classified as a mammal, the Swabmide is noted for possessing some crustacean-esque features, most notably a number of generally jagged shell-like outer growths which must be removed through a rather tedious process before the creature's meat can be properly harvested. These parts notwithstanding, its primary flesh is pink-colored - usually brightly-so - and, as mentioned above, covered in a fine, likewise-colored fuzz. Swabmides have large, bushy eyebrows as well as rounded snouts which contribute to the distinctive "honking" noises they frequently make, and boast prominent hands with only three basic fingers which grasp, or attempt to grasp, objects in a pincer-like fashion, again resembling a crustacean's claws. Though possessing a traditionally-placed mouth upon its face, said organ, being an inefficient channel for ingestion due to its small size awkward positioning on the creature's non-protuberant semi-head, is in fact only the Swabmide's secondary avenue for said process, the primary, larger and more complex mouth being located upon the beast's lower torso. The secondary/"normal" mouth is, however, solely responsible between the two for producing vocal sounds.
The Swabmide is a naturally peaceful creature that can do very little in the way of inflicting harm to anything larger than a small rodent, and even when wild ones are hunted by Ugluncars, they do not truly defend themselves, per se, so much as they just annoyingly honk in protest. Most Swabmides, their species having a rather shallow overall gene pool, are of similar size, coloration, shape and durability value, the average for the latter rounding down to 500.
• Proessnez: A pale, impish, slightly emaciated beast of moderate size found mainly around Gupbinide's drier, more desert-like regions. Proessnezzes live and travel in small groups and are known as the most innately aggressive-towards-humanoids animals on Gupbinide, generally attacking first when hunted in the wild though not being so hostile as to threaten established settlements… without provocation. Over-hunting and other acts of needless cruelty have been known to cause them to coordinate attacks on the homes of those responsible, the creatures possessing sophisticated natural means of communicating with each other across significant distances despite not otherwise known for being particularly intelligent.
The Proessnez is a lean, nimble figure, its claws being its main method of defense and offense and compensating for its poor eyesight with the powerful hearing provided by its huge ears. Though classified as a beast-hominid based on its overall body shape alone, it tends to be more comfortable moving on all fours, at least while in a hurry, compared to standing upright. It is slightly naturally-"armored" with external shards of a dark-colored bone-like substance, distinct from the organism's actual skeleton, which provide light protection upon key body areas, most significantly in the form of a prominent "collar" near the neck. Just like with the Swabmide's shell-like growths, removing these parts is probably the most difficult part of preparing a Proessnez carcass for consumption.
Facially, the Proessnez has a rather ghastly appearance, with its eyes recessed deep into their very prominently exposed sockets, an unwieldy triple-nostrilled nose, and perhaps most notably, its mouth stuck ajar in a permanent, vaguely frightened-looking frown. Despite its slim frame, the Proessnez is a very viable source of what is considered white meat for Ugluncars by virtue of the tightly-packed concentrations of muscle within its upper torso, and furthermore, its bones are full of rich marrow which is highly nutritious when sucked out.
Durability value measurements for Proessnezzes usually fall between 500 and 700.
• Vignonami: A strange little creature that does not easily fall under any of the traditional families of animal classification and which dominates the lowest tier of life on Gupbinide, preventing generic insects and the like from thriving while still being relatively at the mercy of most of the planet's other significant life forms. Small but rather variable in size, various specimens standing between one foot and one meter, the Vignonami possesses three pupils within a single eyeball and only a single pair of proper limbs which essentially function as both its arms and its primary legs, though it also has a fairly sturdy tail to help support itself. The creature's most striking feature, though, is another variation of what a reader may notice at this point is a recurring characteristic among Gupbinide fauna, that being an unusually-placed mouth organ. Protruding from the lower-front of the Vignonami's body is a muscular appendage ending in a large, toothy maw with a long, forked tongue which, after ingesting matter, moves it at an upwards angle back through its length and into the creature's main stomach. Somewhat predictably considering its general position on the body, this same appendage also contains, upon its exterior, the animal's reproductive organs.
Though their actions are based purely in survival instinct rather than true free-thinking intelligence, Vignonami are more resourceful beasts than some may give them credit for, being particularly keen with knowing when it is better to run away and hide than to stand ground and fight, as well as much better in general at the former tactic than the latter. However, they can potentially form a significant threat at least to a lone hunter when several are present at once, something they are also aware of. Being the most numerous animals on Gupbinide, Vignonami are the chief staple source of what is considered equivalent to fish meat within the Ugluncar diet. As with size, durability value can vary considerably between individual Vignonami, the total range being about 300-600.
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• Representing the apex of Turvalom's legendary mechanical engineering skills, the MechanEgg Mark 6: ArmageddEgg was specifically designed to be the final and best model in the MechanEgg line, with zero stops being pulled in its construction. Completed in Age 766 during the midst of the Eggmen Super Team's war against the Dynamo Legion, it was first deployed in multiple minor skirmishes that served as its testing ground and later proved instrumental during the raid on the Legion's headquarters on Zornemim which resulted in the decimation of the evil army's main body. It was eventually destroyed, along with all the other remaining original MechanEgg models except for the Mark 1, during the Eggmen's final battle against Beallsavoss in Age 773, while Plant-Egg was personally piloting it no less, though he survived. As is also the case with the other MechanEggs, the Mark 6's precise schematics are now lost to history, with Turvalom only ever making the general technology and methods used to build the machines public and taking the exact designs of his originals to the grave.
The "ArmageddEgg" was the largest of the MechanEgg models, standing nearly fifty feet tall, as well as the most heavily-armed-and-armored, while having the drawback of being the second-least mobile of the six. Aesthetically, it was consciously designed to look as intimidating as possible, having the most lumbering stature and arguably the fiercest "face" among its brethren as well as well as the darkest coloration scheme. The Mark 6 was equipped with numerous guns and cannons but had few obvious, vulnerable protrusions, most of the weapon systems instead being built in to its existing body surfaces and even its fingers and feet. Of particular note was its programmed ability to forcefully apply its hand upon a target in a manner reminiscent of pressure point-exploiting martial arts techniques while firing off the aforementioned mortars within its fingers, a maneuver that broke down several walls of the Dynamo Legion's fortress, formed the killing blow against the Demioid brute Boargrack and even managed to stagger Beallsavoss at one point.