Advanced Empire - Space Chicken Giant War Beast

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Highly detailed and dynamic! Comes as a unified mesh, as well as in pieces that will print with fewer issues on an FDM printer. Comes with display base, as well as 65mm playable base -- This Giant War Beast is a lifeform native to the jungles of an alien planet. It is often domesticated for use as a beast of burden, assault weapon or combat mount by the alien warriors who serve the Advanced Empire. Its sheer raw power and strength make it a powerful living weapon.  It is is an evolutionary strain that has developed into a large, solitary carnivorous predator. Its effectiveness in this ecological role would seem to be limited by its small eyes and the resulting poor vision, its small, almost vestigial forearms, its slow running speed and its unusually light skeletal structure, despite the beast's bulk. Yet it has a few advantages, including excellent stamina for long-distance running, and brief bursts of intense speed. While it lacks any olfactory lobes, its long tendrils, concentrated at the back of its head, provide excellent sensory information to the beast's relatively small brain. Whilst its eyesight is poor, a Great Knarloc can effectively track prey by scent and sound, running it to ground over long distances. All of these adaptations indicate that the Giant War Beast is an animal which is a scavenger as well as a hunter. Whilst all carnivores are happy to eat dead flesh, they always prefer fresh meat - hunting on occasion, but at other times proving quite happy to simply scavenge carcasses. It is also adept at foraging amongst jungle growth for fruit or using its long claws to seek insects or grubs. It has evolved to hunt by one of two methods, either lurking in dense undergrowth to suddenly ambush passing prey or by using its sensory organs to detect prey at long distances and then run it to ground. It is not predisposed to violence unless it is hungry, threatened or goaded. A Great Knarloc is a solitary creature, spending most of its time alone beneath the jungle canopy, foraging for foodstuffs and scavenging, exploding into extreme violence only should suitable prey be discovered.