Rigor Mortic

AC 16 (12 when broken) Fort +10 Ref +7 Will +4 HP 24 (void healing) Hardness 3 Immunities death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious Breaching Strikes A rigor mortic's melee Strikes treats the Hardness of all other creatures and objects as though they were 5 less than their normal value. Cocoon Projectile A fully-encased rigor mortic can be fired from a starship weapon into another vehicle or from a starship onto the ground. When delivered onto a battlefield in this fashion, the rigor mortic ignores all falling damage even if they're dropped from orbit. For 1 hour after a drop, a rigor mortic rolls initiative with a –2 penalty and is stunned 1 for the first round of combat. Construct Armor A rigor mortic's grafted armor plates give it Hardness. This Hardness reduces any damage it takes by an amount equal to its Hardness. Once the rigor mortic is reduced to less than half its Hit Points, or immediately upon being damaged by a critical hit, its construct armor breaks, removing its Hardness and reducing its Armor Class to 12. Construct Shield A rigor mortic can Raise a Shield using its integrated armor. --- Speed 20 feet Melee Single Action shield slam 9, 1d83 bludgeoning Ranged Single Action breaching minigun 7, 1d83 piercing Melee Single Action shield slam 9, 1d83 bludgeoning Ranged Single Action breaching minigun 7, 1d83 piercing Forging a Rigor Mortic Rigor mortics are built from chunks of soldiers left behind on the battlefield, grafted into heavy armor and reanimated by necromagitech. Some rigor mortics are forged from the corpses of Corpse Fleet heroes whose bodies are too broken to continue fighting, but most are amalgams of Corpse Fleet survivors, dead enemies, and living conscripts cruelly forced to endure this fate. Once a collection of parts is grafted permanently into a suit of armor, the final step is coating the rigor mortic in a shell of supernatural ice, turning them into projectiles that can be fired from starship cannons in squads of two to four per shot. These “rigor mortars,” as they've been nicknamed by some fleet captains, are stored in cryohangars until the moment they're loaded into a cannon. The ice melts away during the rigor mortic's flight, releasing the thawed undead from their shell.