The gray scavver is very much like the other three basic groups of scavvers (brown, night and void) in that they are shark like creatures of wildspace, dominated by a single huge, shark like eye at the leading edge of the head, and a wide, sweeping mouth.
The gray scavvers are the smallest and the least dangerous of the lot, though they travel in large packs. The appearance of grays in a ship's air envelope is usually dangerous only because the grays will be using (and fouling) the air at a rate equivalent to an additional man per scavver. Usually a well-armed party can drive off gray scavvers. The meat of gray scavvers is drab, but nutritious for those on long voyages.
Combat: The scavvers are built along the lines of minimum effort – they are little more than gullets with enough brains to point them selves in the right direction.
Flight (Ex): A Scavver's body is naturally buoyant. This buoyancy allows it to fly as per the spell, as a movement action, at a speed of 30 feet for gray and brown scavvers, and 50 feet for void and night scavvers. This buoyancy also grants it a permanent
feather fall effect with personal range.
Suspend Bodily Functions (Ex): In deep space, all scavvers can shut down their basic body functions, so that they require no air or food for long, periods of time. In this fashion they drift until their paths collide with a passing ship or a solar body.
In the Spheres Most scavvers (including the gray scavver) travel in packs and are found trailing ships, asteroids, and gargantuan or larger creatures, along the plane of gravity, waiting for a free meal. Unless repelled, they will follow a ship until a better or larger target presents itself. Many large cities, like the Rock of Bral, have a permanent scavver crew whose job is to kill scavvers that come onto the rock from arriving ships. The scavver crew is usually made up of ship captains and crews guilty of bringing these creatures in.
The scavvers tend to avoid large planets, since flying against gravity is too much work. They are found in every known sphere in the phlogiston as well.
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