Creature:Sandgorgon

"Sandgorgon are like no other creatures or being in the universe. For starters, they were born out of the deserts of Dooms Gyre, their homeworld. Secondly, they are powerful. Beyond powerful. If they want something, nothing yet known can stop them from getting it. Thirdly, they are literally unable to recognize anything that cannot defeat them in single combat as a sentient life form that can be negotiated with, excluding Nom, their leader, who can. Fourthly, they have absolutely no allegiance to anything, or anyone, unless it can defeat them in single combat. And fifthly, they are to be considered a force of nature, random in action, with no motives or purpose. They simply ARE."

- The Sandgorgon File in the databanks of the Lost

=Forms=

Basic Form
Sandgorgon have several forms. This is the Basic Form, the one they take when on a planet or moon. Approximately 10-12 ft tall, these beings are not to be messed with. Very dense, they can still attain speeds up to 120 mph, and are built to run across desert terrain. They have larger feet, solid legs and arms, and fists like stone. One punch from one of these guys can crumble granite into dust, and cause steel and titanium to warp and bend. There is no need to say what a punch can do to a carbon based lifeform, so if your carbon based, try not to get punched. This form, like the other 2, is blind, using echolocation and electromagnetic senses to see the world around them. They breath though 2 sets of gill like slits on the side of their throat, but besides those, their bodies are completely uniform and bare, as smooth as an individual grain of sand. This form can be anything from dull white, to deep orange yellow in color.

Spacegorgon Form
So called because it exists in space, and not on a planet. The "Spacegorgon" form is different from the Basic Form in that it is no where near as dense. It is a massive web like form, with the center containing the Sandgorgon itself. The web takes in solar rays like a sail, and uses them to gain speed and travel from star to star. In this form, a Sandgorgon is at its weakest, which is to say, extremely strong. They can retract their web in an instant, becoming the Basic or Full form in less time then it takes more creatures brains to sense that something changed. Once out of this form though, they lose the energy coming from a star, and then they have to reform into it to start gaining solar energy. There isn't a middle form where they can be dangerous and get solar energy at the same time, so they only come out of Spacegorgon Form if threatened or if they have rached their destination. Or of course, if they decide they want to, they are after all, utterly random beings, and as such it is never safe to be near them.

Full Form
The Sandgorgons Full Form is immensely powerful, capable of grinding entire ships to dust in mere moments. But it is costly for a Sandgorgon to take this form, it can result in their own death, if they use it to much. The Full Form is about 18-22 feet tall, and had 6 limbs. 4 legs and 2 arms. The legs are twisted back, like a dogs legs, in both the front and the back, giving them immense jumping power. The 2 arms end in hands, but each hand has a long superdense bone blade extending from it. This bone blade can cut through almost anything. So far, only the blade of another Sandgorgon Full Form can stop it, but they have not been tried against Xhodocto yet, so anythings possible. THis form can attain top speeds of around 300 mph, and if one of them kicks you you will not survive, no matter what your made of. Its defense is no less strong, with a hide that very few things can cut through, including a Sandgorgons Blade and diamond. As of yet, nothing else has been tried against them.

=Mindset= THe Mindset of the Sandgorgon is complex. No one has ever been able to predict what they will do next, they do things seemingly at random. Wiping out planets for no reason, but passing the one right next to it over completely. So far, no one has ever survived a Sandgorgon attack, so no one knows what happens within one. Several things have been determined from long study and observation though.

Sandgorgon Social Structure
The social structure of the Sandgorgon is simple: The strongest on top, the weakest on the bottom. They will battle each other for dominance quite often, and the current leader, and leader for most of their history, as far as we can tell, is called Nom. No sandgorgon has been able to defeat him yet, and therefor he is still the leader.

Sandgorgon Interspecies Relations
The Sandgorgon are unable by their nature to acknowledge anything weaker then themselves. If you do manage to defeat one, it will recognize you as a fellow being, and will usually take you to Nom, who will, being able to communicate with other beings besides Sandgorgon, and he will question you and learn about your species. He will then decide wether or not your species is worthy of being considered "real" by the Sandgorgon. If he decides yes, that is no garentee that the Sandgorgon will become your allies, it will simply garentee that they know of your existence and respect that you exist. They may still attack your kind though, but they will do so with their form of honor. If you fail, the Sandgorgon that you defeated will take you back to the place that you beat it and leave you there. It will acknowledge that you, as an individual, are real, but the rest of your species will still be the same as rocks and stones, just something to brush aside.

Sandgorgon Honor
The Sandgorgon have a strange form of honor. Their honor is only given to those who defeat them in single combat. Nom has never been defeated, so he is the most honorable. Any non-Sandgorgon Species that defeats a Sandgorgon in single combat gains honor, but only with that Sandgorgon, who will then take that opponent to Nom, where it will be determined if its species is to be respected or ignored. Their entire way of life is based on this system of honor, from government to where they are positioned in the army(weakest in back, strongest in front). Disrespect one at your own peril.

=Sandgorgon Ships= The Sandgorgon have only 1 ship, and that is the Sandship. It is made up of an interwoven web of Spacegorgon, and can withstand anything short of apocalyptic power. It is literally crawling with sandgorgon, so it is unwise to attack this vessel.

=Sandgorgon Young and Lifecycle=

Sandgorgon Young
Sandgorgon young are strange creatures, playful as dolphins, and somehow able to "swim" through space as though it were water. They seem to mature at random, suddenly changing from playful little sandfry into their full grown adult counterparts. The Sandfry are exceptionally dense, pulling all sorts of things toward them. They generally come free with a layer of rocks and other debris from the vacuum of space which helps defend their fragile bodies from threats.

Sandgorgon Lifecycle
Sandgorgon start as Sandeggs, then hatch into Sandfry, and then move to their main form, Sandgorgon. We have never seen any that have aged past this pint, they seem to stop all outward signs of aging once they reach this point.

Sandeggs
Sandeggs are small, minuscule, but very very very dense. They are always surrounded by astroids and comets orbiting them, and can be found at random wherever Sandgorgon have been. It is unknown how they are laid, or even if they are laid, and not constructed. These eggs are virtually indestructible, so far no method has been found that can destroy them.

Sandfry
Are small, fishlike creatures that hatch out of Sandeggs. They are not as dense as Sandeggs, but still cary with them a number of smaller astroids and other space debris that their gravitational pull has gathered around them. They are rather vulnerable, if you can catch them and get through the layers of space debris that lays against them. They are very very fast though, able to move at half the speed of light, easy. We have no idea how they do this, but we do know that they can move, and nothing actually stops them. They go through ships as if they were paper, so they are to be avoided if possible.

Sandgorgon
We've already been over this subject. Sandgorgon are the adults. They do not care for the young in any way, in fact they don't even recognize the young's existence. They don't attack their own young though, never been recorded anyway. They appear to live forever.

=The Sandgorgon= The Sandgorgon are a mystery, no one knows what their purpose is. As far as anyone has ever been able to discover, they have no more purpose then rain, or gravity. They exist, but for no reason. It is thought that maybe they balance something else out, something just as random as them, but somehow different. They are truly alien, as they have no motives, wiping out entire planets for no decreeable reason. Sandgorgon are just another face of fate, some say. Others say they are the failed experiment of some far older species, and yet others say that they just are, with no creators or controllers. Whatever they are, everyone can agree that they are not to be attacked, and that they have a tendency to appear at important times. They have often been called "the hand of fate" or similar names. They are Sandgorgon, thats all anyone can truly agree on..