[Aliens]"...solitary giant predator caterpillars. Civilization wasn't easy for us"

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Kissamies

I checked out those caterpillars, they are pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQt54x6KmK8

If the Ur-Quan are modelled after those things, they'll have one set of limbs on front for grabbing prey and another set in the back for clinging to whatever they use as base, probably tree trunks or branches. As they are much bigger than those caterpillars, they are likely to just hang upside down most of the time, and that is indeed what they seem to be doing in every official picture of them there is. Probably the most natural posture for them.

Nice video. There's a rather acceptable though unofficial image.

Originally Posted by Kissamies

SC1 manual says that the Dreadnoughts have roped ceilings for clinging on.

It does? I'll have to find that statement.

Originally Posted by Kissamies

Brachiator would seem to be minimum. Clinging with some sort of minor limitation would seem appropriate. Super Climbing probably not. I don't think they move fast even on the ground. Good Basic Speed, probably. Good Move, probably not.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to Brachiator, since Clinging can probably be replaced by TL9 equipment anyway.


More notes:
As stated in another thread, I think they canonically possess these traits too:

Quirk: Territorial. Loner effects also apply to a territory they consider 'personally theirs'. This is definitely their crew quarters rooms, and possibly their cockpits, unique workplaces etc.
Either limited Truthfulness, or a Quirk which heavily predisposes them against using lies.
A perk/quirk level of Racial Memory: the most significant events in the species' history seem to be ingrained to an almost instinctive level; notably, they have this ancestral fear of the Dnyarri, and the psychological trauma suffered by them during the slave revolts seem to have equally traumatized the modern generations.