Sorry about the delay. I'm having trouble with the Industrial Arachnoid so I moved on the Assassin Arachnoid. It too gave me trouble as well, but here it is. Arachnoid, Assassin An Arachnoid morph purpose designed for stealth and assassination. It has chameleon cloak, Radar Absorbent, and a skill bonus to infiltration to help avoid detection. It has cyberclaws, eelware, and a nasty bite attack to deal with victims. These weapons are often enhanced with after market mods to give it toxins and nanotoxins. Its small size combined with grip pads and magnetic system allows it to climb and attack from positions that most don't expect. Its frame was designed light in case the owner wants to add flying mobility systems. It was designed for quick kills and, if need be, self-destructing after a mission is complete. Some take this a step further and add explosives to the morph to make it a suicide bomber. Enhancements: 360 Degree Vision, Access Jacks, Basic Mesh Inserts, Chameleon Skin, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Cyberclaws, Dead Switch, Eelware, Enhanced Vision, Extra Limbs (10 Arms/Legs), Grip Pads, Hidden Compartment, Lidar, Light Combat Armor (14/12), Magnetic System, Mental Speed, Mnemonic Augmentation, Pneumatic Limbs, Puppet Sock, Radar, Radar Absorbent (p. 149, Panopticon), Weapon Mount (2, articulated) Mobility System: Walker 4/24, Thrust Vector 8/40, Wheeled 8/40 Aptitude Maximum: 30 Durability: 30 Wound Threshold: 6 Advantages: +10 COO, +10 SOM, Any +5, Armor 4/4 (18/16 with Light Combat Armor), +20 to Infiltration Notes: Small Size trait CP Cost: 60 Credit Cost: Expensive (minimum 60,000+) Design Notes: This was a difficult morph to make. I kept wanting to add more augments, but I was at the limit. Any more and the price of aptitude bonuses would go up so much that the morph would suddenly become 20 CP more expensive. Technically, the bite attack should have push it over that limit long ago, but my spread sheet isn't complex enough to take it into account yet. By the time I realized it was problem, I was already at the limit for augments. I didn't want to remove anything, so I pretended it didn't matter. Its not like there aren't official morphs that don't follow the rules or add up correctly. I did want to add poisons and nanotoxins to this morph, but I already mentioned that the augments was already pushed to the limit. I also noticed that it seems that available poisons and nanotoxins are most dangerous to biomorphs, not synthmorphs. In that way, it became justifiable to skip such augments if they weren't going to work on a sizable chunk of potential targets. ---- Arachnoid, Assassin - Suicide Bomber Refit Some Assassin Arachnoids have abdomens added that contain an explosive charge. Treat this explosive as standard missile (High Explosive) centered on the morph. This explossion will destroy the morph (considered a design feature) and will deal 6d10 + 20 to everyone nearby (avg 53 damage). It will automatically detonate if the morph is disabled by damage (built in dead man switch), so the assassin never has to worry about activating it. A smart assassin will seek to deal some damage first to help ensure that target doesn't survive the explosive blast. If they don't, they risk the target surviving by the skin of their teeth. Refit Cost: 1000 (1 Disposable Missile Launcher). Notes: Doing this refit is a task action Hardware: Robotics. It should take 1 hours to complete. Assuming one has a guide to follow (and proper tools), this should be a simple success test. However, if the pod is being assembled from pieces, then someone with skills in explosives should assemble it. Assembling the explosive is not a simple success test. Alternatively, one could have the Assassin Arachnoid be CM printed with the Suicide Bomber pod already installed. Design Notes: This borrows some work I was doing for the Industrial Arachnoid morph. Namely, some ideas of refitting morphs with special features. This adds a powerful explosive to the morph making it a suicide bomber. I figured it appropriate since it already has puppet sock for remote operations, and dead switch if the assassin decides to risk going in personally. The morph is fragile enough as is that a fire fight will probably end badly for it, so it might as well go out with a bang.

Here is a new morph. I wanted to make a social style Arachnoid. Arachnoid, Charlotte This Arachnoid is an attempt to try to make a morph that is socially adept. This morph is named after the spider in the children's story "Charlotte's Web". Unfortunately for the pride of the designer, most people don't like spiders, so it hasn't become very popular. Still, some eccentrics and those raise a flipped bird to social standards have used them. Many have used the chameleon skin to take on different paint styles, words, and art. Enhancements: Access Jacks, Basic Mesh Inserts, Chameleon Skin, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Enhanced Vision, Extra Limbs (10 Arms/Legs), Lidar, Mnemonic Augmentation, Pneumatic Limbs, Puppet Sock, Radar Mobility System: Walker 4/24, Thrust Vector 8/40, Wheeled 8/40 Aptitude Maximum: 30 Durability: 40 Wound Threshold: 8 Advantages: +5 COO, INT +5, +10 SAV, Any +5, Armor 8/8 CP Cost: 55 Credit Cost: Expensive (minimum 55,000+) Design Notes: There isn't a whole lot of good examples of social synthmorphs. I don't think there are many social morphs period. So there wasn't very many morphs to compare this to. The Galatea had Chameleon Skin, so I gave this morph it as well. Is there much in term of social augments and traits? I found it was far easier to make combat or industrial morphs than social.

I was having trouble coming up with names for these morphs. Then it dawned on me that there are probably different species of dragonflys, all with their own names. I started pairing names with morphs. I decided that the Pondhawk would be a mid level combat morph because it had hawk in its name. The Sanddragon had dragon in the name, so it would be a high end combat morph. ---- Dragonfly, Pondhawk The Dragonfly Pondhawk, or the just Pondhawk, is a medium sized dragonfly combat morph. The larger size allow the morph to be tougher and stronger than its smaller variants. Enhancements: Anti-Glare, Access Jacks, Basic Mesh Inserts, Chameleon Skin, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Vision, Mnemonic Augmentation, Puppet Sock, Radar, (2) Weapon Mount (Concealed/Articulated) Mobility Systems: Walker 2/16, Winged 8/32 Aptitude Maximum: 30 Durability: 50 Wound Threshold: 10 Advantages: Armor 6/6 (20/18 with Light Combat Armor), +10 COO, +5 REF, +5 Any CP Cost: 50 Credit Cost: High (minimum 50,000+) Design Notes: I increased its size to medium, added more DUR and armor, gave it some improved senses, etc. I played with the idea of giving it strength boosting augments, such as cyber arm pluses, but then got ride of them as they didn't seem to fit with the idea of a Dragonfly. ---- Dragonfly, Sanddragon The Dragonfly Sanddragon, or the just Sanddragon, is a large sized dragonfly combat morph. Its large size and equipment makes it a war machine on the battle field. Its immense cost has limited its appearance on the battlefield. Enhancements: 360 Degree Vision, Access Jacks, Anti-Glare, Basic Mesh Inserts, Chameleon Skin, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Smell, Enhanced Vision, Hardened Skeleton, Heavy Combat Armor, Mnemonic Augmentation, Muscle Augmentation, Pneumatic Limbs, Puppet Sock, Radar, Reflex Boosters, Shape Adjusting, Structural Enhancement, (4) Weapon Mount (Concealed/Articulated) Mobility Systems: Internal Rocket 12/60, Walker 2/16, Winged 8/32 Aptitude Maximum: 40 Durability: 80 (95 with enhancements) Wound Threshold: 16 (19 with enhancements) Advantages: Armor 8/8 (24/24 with Heavy Combat Armor), +10 COO, +5 INT, +10 REF (+20 with enhancements), +10 SOM (+20 with enhancements), +5 any Notes: Large Size trait CP Cost: 130 Credit Cost: Expensive (minimum 130,000+) Design Notes: I made this morph to be a tough insect in the sky. I gave it many reaper morph augments. I also made it really tough, tougher than a reaper. When I was done, I had a morph worth 175 CP. At first, I was satisfied with that big number, but then I started to think it was much too expensive. I compared it to my aracknoid light tank and found it tougher. After that comparison, I started stripping things away. The largest cut was reducing DUR from 120 to 80 (to be less than my light tank).