Hi all! A real quick intro, so you know where I'm coming from. I'm Enigma32. I'm a newcomer to Eclipse Phase, but I've had the setting for a while now and I've learned it by basically rewriting the whole rule book into notebooks (you have to have something to do when you're subbing inside of a math class and you're an English major...). If you're familiar with an old TSR system called Alternity, that's the first Sci-Fi game that I ever cut my teeth on. If there's any familiar faces from Anet on this forum, Ima give y'all a shout out - if there's not, feel free to look at me strange. Anyway, like I said; when you've got free time, your mind tends to wander. I recently came by Gatecrashing, and two aspects of it made my inner mad scientist cackle: Sky Ark and Fortean. Why? Custom morphs, that's why. So, I'll scavenge together my notes and I'll share what I've come up with.

Uplifted Maniraptor

Biomorph Maniraptors include a wide array of critters that are currently dead and have been so for about 65 million years. Among their species they count some of the more intelligent dinosaurs - Troodons, Dromaeosauridae (Deinonychus, Velociraptor, and the like) and Oviraptors. I select this branch of the Theropod family because a) it's home to some of the smarter dinosaurs and b) if we can uplift avians, then we can uplift them. They're already neogenetically resurrecting them on Sky Ark, so it's not much of a stretch to think that someone, somewhere, got the idea humanity was feeling lonely and needed a scaly companion out of the late Cretaceous to keep us company in the cold and distant future. Now, note I'm not suggesting this is a smart idea, but if you ever wanted to reverse the roles of that famous scene from Jurassic Park when the Raptors are hunt the humans, now's your chance... While this includes a wide breadth of theropods, I imagine that this is generally going to be restricted to Troodons, Deinonychus, and Oviraptor. After all, they're the three smartest dinosaurs. All of the above are warmblooded, which means that resleeving in one won't be as psychologically devastating a preposition as it could be. They sport feathers - I imagine that if they're anything like birds today, males have bright, rainbow colored feathers while females have dull, brown and gray. That said, this isn't something some implants can't fix up. They've also been modified a bit; their hands feature something more akin to opposible thumbs, to allow them to grab and manipulate objects like humans can. [collapse] Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack Aptitude Maximum: 35 Durability: 30 Wound Threshold: 6 Advantages: Foot Claw (1d10+3 DV, AP -1), +10 COO, +5 REF, +10 Freerunning, +10 Perception; Can use Freerunning to scale vertical walls with an appropriate penalty Disadvantages: Social Stigma (Neogenetic) CP Cost: 30 Credit Cost: Expensive (50,000+, very rare) [/collapse]

Minotaur

Pod Morph The geniuses on Fortean are creating something akin to a Walt Disney World for folks that grew up with D&D. If they're working on Sasquatch, it's only a matter of time before they focus on other mythological creatures, and then, perhaps, move beyond that into popular culture. Tops on that list should be the minotaur. We all know what a Minotaur is; large horns, nasty disposition, has a propensity to be housed in Labyrinths created by men named Daedelus. Unless you read Gunnerkrig Court, in which case we learn he's not such a bad guy and come out on the wrong end of history. Anyway, a minotaur morph is that brought to life. As you can imagine, this is a combat biomorph, or it's supposed to be - the exotic nature of the morph makes it exceedingly rare, and it's usually just for show and intimidation factor. Minotaurs themselves are, like most other creatures on Fortean, inhabited by AGI or AIs. Sleeving into one of these is like diving headfirst into a biological version of the Reaper synthmorph. [collapse] Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Direction Sense, Enhanced Vision, Hardened Skeleton, Hibernation, Medichines, Muscle Augmentation, Puppet Socket Ability Maximum: 40 Durability: 50 (55 w/Hardened Skeleton) Wound Threshhold: 10 Advantages: Horns (2d10+5+SOM/10), Claws (1d10+3+SOM/10), +10 SOM, +5 INT Disadvantages: Social Stigma (Neogenetic) CP Cost: 90 Credit Cost: Expensive (50,000+, vanishingly rare) [/collapse] I'll be back later with more, but in the mean time, I wouldn't mind some input :)