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Scrap Rat Creature -1

It requires a quick mind and even quicker fingers to make good of a scrap rat's average 2-year lifespan, but that's what it takes for these scrappers to protect their burrows from exterminators.
Recall Knowledge - Beast (Arcana): DC 13
Recall Knowledge - Beast (Nature): DC 13
Unspecific Lore: DC 11
Specific Lore: DC 8

Elite | Normal | Weak

Scrap Rat Creature -1

Image of a scrap rat
Source Alien Core pg. 168
Perception +7 (low-light vision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet)
Skills Acrobatics +4, Crafting +4, Stealth +5, Thievery +3
Str +2 Dex +3 Con +1 Int -3 Wis +1 Cha -3
Items commercial frag grenades (or other grenade; see dangerous recycling)
AC 14
Fort +5
Ref +8
Will +2
HP 8
Speed 25 feet, climb 10 feet
Melee [one-action] tail +6 (agilefinesserazing), Damage 1d4+2 slashing
Area Fire [one-action] frag grenade +7 (area [5-foot burst]consumablerange 70 feet), Damage 1d8 piercing
Scoring When the scrap rat's tail deals damage to an object or creature with the tech trait, the tail also gains the following traits until the beginning of the scrap rat's next turn: deadly (1d4), hampering, and razing.

All Creatures in "Scrap Rat"

NameLevelSpoiler
Scrap Rat-1
Scrap Rat Visionary2Guilt of the Grave World
Tool Rat2

Scrap Rat

When pileups of metal garbage begin to conquer the wilderness, rodents conquer the garbage. Scrap rats adapt to every civilization that disposes their ruined gadgets and industrial debris, all of which the rats recycle and reuse to potentially deadly effect. While not especially intelligent, they have an innate knack for crafting.

One Person's Trash...

Rats salvage their environs for mechanisms to nurse their tinier kin and battle their would-be exterminators. These ramshackle crafts include anything like prosthetics, vehicles, firearms, or comms devices. Rumors suggest one mischief of rats on Absalom Station even discovered the microscopic secrets of nanites.