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SFS Standard Alloid (Ship Stealer) Creature 2

Alloids are interplanetary scavengers sent by the Dominion of the Black to plague the galaxy. These tall, thin, and spindly creatures appear to have metallic sheens to their smooth skin, often in copper or gold tones. An alloid's surprisingly pliable physiology allows them to mold their physical form to fit into tight spaces or stretch paper-thin against surfaces. It's rumored they can, with great effort, even mimic other people.

While few enough people have encountered alloids for the name to truly catch on, they've become colloquially known as “ship stealers” in the Pact Worlds. They frequently travel in groups of three to five, hanging around spaceports and scoping out potential marks. They often look for smaller ships with crews not much larger than their pack or massive ships with many hiding places. They then slip aboard inside containers or backpacks, often during resupply cycles.

Once the ship is out in space and the crew settled in, the pack gets to work, ideally taking out their targets one by one with barbs that make their prey's flesh as malleable as their own, allowing them to easily hide the bodies. After kidnapping a crew, they fly the ship to places where they can link up with other alloids—or their Dominion masters—to strip the starship for parts. What they do with their living prey is unknown.

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Elite Weak Alloid Creature 2

Image of an alloid
Source Alien Core pg. 42
Recall Knowledge DC 15 16 18 •
Aberration (Occultism)
Perception +9 (darkvision)
Languages Aklo, Chthonian, Common; telepathy 30 feet
Skills Acrobatics +8, Athletics +6, Computers +7, Deception +5, Piloting +10, Stealth +12
Str +2 Dex +4 Con +2 Int +3 Wis +0 Cha -1
AC 17
Fort +7
Ref +11
Will +5
HP 25
Resistances bludgeoning 2
Malleable Flesh [reaction] Trigger The alloid is hit or critically hit by a Strike or spell attack, and they aren't off-guard; Effect The alloid gains a +2 circumstance bonus to AC against the triggering attack.
Speed 30 feet
Melee [one-action] knife +10 (agileanalogfinesseversatile s), Damage 1d4+2 piercing
Ranged [one-action] knife +10 (agileanalogfinessethrown 10 feetversatile s), Damage 1d4+2 piercing
Ranged [one-action] toxic barb +10 (nonlethalrange increment 20 feet), Damage 1d4+2 piercing plus flesh putty
Flesh Putty (poison) Saving Throw DC 18 Fortitude; Maximum Duration 12 hours Stage 1 slowed 1 (1 round); Stage 2 slowed 2 (1 round); Stage 3 paralyzed (1 round); Stage 4 unconscious with no Perception check to wake up (2d6 hours), and the target's body becomes permanently malleable as per Putty Form until they've completely recovered from flesh putty
Putty Form [one-action] The alloid's body melts and molds to fit into tight spaces or stretches paper-thin against a flat surface. They gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks to Hide and to their Stealth DC when using this ability while adjacent to walls or within tight spaces (at the GM's discretion). Alloids using this ability can squeeze into spaces, including into closed containers or through doors, as though they were Tiny. The alloid can use Putty Form again to return to their standard, more solid form.
Sneak Attack The alloid deals an additional 1d6 precision damage to targets that are off-guard to them.

All Creatures in "Dominion of the Black"

Dominion of the Black

Before the Gap, the Dominion of the Black had a strong presence on Aucturn and would occasionally invade other planets, such as Lost Golarion, in search of brains to devour and in pursuit of other mysterious agendas. Now, the people of the Pact Worlds understand that the Dominion has secret bases across the galaxy—the Pact Worlds might draw their attention from time to time, but their missions take them to many worlds and many star systems.

The Dominion creatures most commonly seen by others are mere scouts, while more powerful members of the Dominion conglomeration emerge only rarely to terrorize society. Stories of these creatures are as few as the scant number of people who survive such encounters—most spacefarers know to immediately flee any ship or territory with signs of Dominion presence.

Other Dominion Creatures

Jah-tohls, known as mind snatchers, are similar to deh-nolos: both harvest brains and store them in their bodies, though deh-nolos are more powerful and more likely to remain in Dominion space working on new technologies than to explore other planets. Gosregs and xoarians infiltrate humanoid societies as spies, while rhu-chaliks serve the Dominion as scouts. Chyzaedus are strange beings that joined forces with the Dominion rather than be destroyed; now, they act as a sort of “priesthood,” though the Dominion's focus on entropy and destruction as divine forces makes their teachings quite unpalatable in most societies.

Dominion Lackeys

No one knows the origins or home world of alloids—these creatures are subservient to the rest of the Dominion. Though they pursue the Dominion's agenda unquestioningly, they have no say in it. Alloids frequently flee or submit themselves to eternally float in the vacuum of space rather than be captured or give up any knowledge of their origins, likely out of fear of Dominion retaliation.