What is it made of?
A Leviathan can feed on more than flesh. Ships, bodies, radiation, reactor cores, memory residue, grief signals, dead-gate energy, and failed Auric Rail anchors can all become food.
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Great Beast Codex · Recognized order 03
Star-Carrion Leviathans
Vast cosmic scavengers drawn to dying stars, wrecked fleets, battlefield debris, and mass death. They turn the ruins of war into a feeding ground.
Stellar death · wreckage · mass casualtyGreat Beast · Order visualization
Star-Carrion Leviathans at living cosmic scale
Vast cosmic scavengers drawn to dying stars, wrecked fleets, battlefield debris, and mass death. They turn the ruins of war into a feeding ground.
- Order domain
- Stellar death · wreckage · mass casualty
- Visible body
- The part seen may not be the whole Beast
- Separate size label
- Scale class is recorded separately from order
Order identity
What makes this kind of Great Beast recognizable?
Vast cosmic scavengers drawn to dying stars, wrecked fleets, battlefield debris, and mass death. They turn the ruins of war into a feeding ground.
What happens when it enters history?
They arrive where death and wreckage collect. Salvage fields become feeding grounds, evidence vanishes, and a battlefield can stay deadly long after the shooting ends.
Field knowledge
What an encounter leaves behind.
- Wreckage moving against expected drift
- Stars dimming behind no ordinary occlusion
- Hull frost in otherwise stable systems
- Deep distress tones without a transmitting vessel
- Bodies vanishing from sealed wrecks
- Ships and wreckage
- Crew-memory residues
- Reactor cores and radiation
- Bodies and grief signals
- Dead-gate energy
- Failed Auric Rail anchors
- Carrion Calves
- Wreckwhales
- Grave-Maws
- Star-Eaters
- The Mourning Vast
- Salvage denial
- Data and memory loss
- Cosmic-judgment religions
- Predation around lost homes
- War-aftermath zones that remain ecologically active