Anacite Predator

Family: Anacite

Large construct (anacite, robot, technological), unaligned

Armor Class 18 (heavy skymetal frame)
Hit Points 161 (17d10 + 68)
Speed 60 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	16 (+3)	18 (+4)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)	1 (-5)

Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities fire, poison, psychic
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Common; shortwave 100 ft.
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

• Electrical Weakness. The anacite predator has disadvantage on saving throws against lightning damage. If it rolls a natural 1 on the save it is stunned until the end of its next turn.
• Shortwave. An anacite can communicate wirelessly. This acts as telepathy, but only with other creatures with this ability or constructs with the technological subtype.
• Sunlight Dependency. Anacite predators are solar-powered constructs, although they can function at reduced capacity away from light. In areas of darkness, they gain the poisoned condition (bypassing their normal immunity).

ACTIONS

• Multiattack. An anacite predator can use Automatic Laser five times.
• Horn. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) piercing damage.
• Automatic Laser. Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range 90 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) radiant damage, and the target is knocked prone.
• Electric Ray (Recharge 6). The anacite predator discharges electricity in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

BONUS ACTIONS

• Target Lock. An anacite predator can lock on to a target within 60 feet that it can see. The anacite predator can have only one locked target at a time. The anacite predator has advantage on attack rolls against the locked-on target.

REACTIONS

• Unicorn. If a creature moves adjacent to the anacite predator, it may use its Horn attack as a reaction against the triggering creature, and then move 10 feet away. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

ABOUT

A race of machines left behind by eons-departed masters, these constructs developed the capacity for evolution and self-improvement, creating an entire mechanical ecosystem. Anacites have varied general designs, but some have been engineered for specialized tasks. Two such specialists are the ambassador and the predator drone. While “anacite” officially refers only to the sentient varieties many off-worlders use it as a catchall term for the world’s mechanical life. Depending on their role, however, an anacite might be anything from a bulldozer-sized mining specialist to a floating electronic brain designed for advanced problem-solving, and even those anacites who fit the stereotypical metal-insect design usually have a modification or two, and almost all anacites can reconfigure parts of themselves to adapt to their circumstances.

In the uncounted millennia since the departure of the so-called “First Ones,” anacites have not been idle. The two primary factions of anacites, Those Who Wait and Those Who Become, have very different ideas of their purpose in life, yet the two are more alike than different.

While they variously wait for the First Ones to return or work toward taking on their progenitors’ mantle, anacites endlessly strive to acquire wealth and influence in preparation for their great goal’s fulfillment.

These artificial creatures lack basic sentience yet nevertheless reproduce and fill one of the planet’s ecological niches. These 4-foot-long machines whir from ridge to ridge on wings glittering with solar panels, feeding on the blazing light of the sun. Wingbots can be territorial, and they occasionally attack off-worlders or other anacites.

• Ambassadors. Anacite ambassadors travel to foster diplomatic relations. Most often, anacite ambassadors serve on seedships as emissaries. Anacite ambassadors can easily learn languages. Further, although they are not warriors, ambassadors can protect themselves with built-in lasers. To avoid tension during diplomacy, ambassadors keep this weapon retracted until it’s needed, though they usually notify their hosts about the laser unless there’s a good reason to keep it a secret.
• Predator Drone. An anacite predator drone resembles a rhinoceros beetle made of silvery metal with a reddish shell that opens to reveal enormous wings. The drone’s weapons are part of its body, leaving its wings and appendages free.
• Countless drones police megaplexes. Others serve as soldiers for anacites that have greater authority.
• Wingbot. The most common design for anacites is a basic arthropodan form of silvery metal, with multiple legs for efficient travel and claws or manipulators for accomplishing their assigned tasks.