Galaxia Peacock
Galaxia Peacock (b. 9797 GCE), known as Gal, is a mech engineer that lives on Gapachon. She is a bio-weapons specialist and occasional sewer derby pilot. Her species is unknown, although she is known to be at least half-aasimar as one of her biological mothers is Astro Peacock.
Appearance and Behaviour[edit | edit source]
Galaxia is 234cm (7'7") tall and has a human-like anatomy. She has dark, noticeable hair on most of her body and thick, blonde, curly hair on her head and pubic area. Her nails are very long and sturdy (around 16cm-20cm on the fingers, 25cm on the small and big toenails and 9cm on the remaining six toenails) and completely black. She is digitigrade and has a very large hand and hands, eyes and mouth. Her pupils are fairly small, however, and her irises, which are bright red, are equally small. Her teeth are pointed and sharp.
She is said to be at least as malevolent a being as her mother, and her contempt for humans is often described as pathological. She has a deep voice with a booming laugh and often shouts unnecessarily.
History[edit | edit source]
Galaxia was born in 9797 GCE or 9796 GCE (depending whether you ask her mother or her respectively) on the 1,434,222th layer of the Abyss. She was in the planes for an indeterminate amount of (subjective) time before separating from Astro and making her way to Gapachon in 9848 GCE. There, she refined her already extensive knowledge of demons and bioengineering and became a mechanic for the illegal sewer derby beneath Neoroller City. She later joined the Ankheg Mech Pilot Program, which she worked on from 9859 to 9862 GCE, ultimately leaving following several heated ethical disputes and returning to the sewers.
Designs[edit | edit source]
Galaxia has invented multiple weapons and devices, primarily using biological components.
Tankheg 1[edit | edit source]
- Main article: Tankheg 1
A tank-like mech co-designed as part of the Ankheg Mech Pilot Program (AMPP) made from ankheg shell and piloted by an ankheg and an AI.
Anthropoblaster[edit | edit source]
The anthropoblaster is a mech weapon built almost entirely out of a living human. Externally, it resembles an abstract, cocoon-like representation of a human carved from bone with the head turned upward 90 degrees. In fact, this is an exoskeleton grown from the human, which is forced with enchantments and alterations to its genetic code to regrow its skeleton on the outside. The internal anatomy is completely re-arranged, its organs specifically geared toward the production and discharging of fleshy bullets designated "anthropellets". These bullets are shaped roughly the same as the exoskeleton, but are instead made of skin, blood, hardened muscle and a set of miniature organs including a tiny heart and brain. In addition, they have sharp, tooth-like growths on their tip shaped like drills and covered in thick enamel.
The weapon is triggered by blocking the gas vents on the tail end of the device. The build-up of gas causes a chemical explosion (absorbed by several layers of fat in the "firing chamber") that launches the bullets from the mouth, which themselves explode about a second after impact within their target, spinning and shrieking from the moment they are fired until they detonate. If they impact a substance too hard to be pierced (such as titanium or carbon steel) they will typically explode instantaneously on impact, though it does substantially less damage.
The human used to create the anthropoblaster typically loses all of its higher brain functions, but Galaxia is working on this in order to facilitate psionic enhancements (part of the reason she designed the weapon in the first place).
The anthropoblaster's structure is a closely guarded secret of Galaxia's and nobody has (as yet) acquired one outside of her trusted circle.
Dracoblaster[edit | edit source]
The dracoblaster is a theoretical mech weapon made out of a living dragon. It would consist of a dragon's head and several of its organs, and would be designed to enable the wielder to utilize the breath attacks of the dragon as a propellant. The projectiles of such a weapon (dracopellets) would be produced within the dragon, and would have a hard, scale-like shell containing some of the same propellant. Galaxia has yet to acquire the necessary organic components for this weapon, but has done extensive research and produced many iterations on designs for the weapon - she is confident that she could easily produce the weapon given several weeks of time, a live dragon, her workshop and a small team of well-trained assistants. Notably, some of her early blueprints were leaked and some factions that condemn such things have placed a bounty on the head of the (publicly unknown) individual that conceived such a weapon.