Draken



This creature is theorized by most non-eaten scientists to be from a timeline where birds took over as the dominant species when the dinosaurs died out. They were probably apex predators in their original timeline, and certainly are apex predators now, as they are some of the biggest, meanest, nastiest things to “grace” Gamma Terra with their presence. They look like regular, ordinary ducks scaled up to a massive size, albeit with enormous teeth added to the mix, and come in the colors (listed in ascending order of aggressiveness) yellow, green and red. They are often captured by the Red Death to train as shock troops, most of them horribly abused in the process, as well as by the Gammarauders who find them excellent test subjects. The grens also like to train them as “Defenders of Nature”. Those who get eaten by said Drakeons are said to have not loved nature enough.

It is theorized that the Carrins come from the same timeline as these creatures, supported by the fact that almost all Carrins have a “Kill on sight” policy regarding these creatures. It is also said that the only time you will see genuine generosity out of a Carrin is at a Drakeon cookout. Make of that what you will.

Nobody has any idea why the lasers the Drakeon spits act more like grenades than honest-to-goodness-sci-fi-style lasers or why they apparently have enough mass to knock people down, but Professor Rat suspects that it may be due to the magnetic ores which these creatures enjoy eating. Because, as a great pre-Mistake sage once asked, “F'ng magnets, how do they work?”

By Tommie Johnson  Assisted by Caoimhe Ora Snow 

Color Picture: “Duk-Hee” by Tricia Arnold, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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