Hammerhead Matriarch

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The Hammerhead Matriarch is a Europan creature related to the Hammerhead.

Hammerhead Matriarch
Stats
Health 500	Armor 90%
Weakpoints Head: x10	Armored Points Skirt, Fins
Speed
Walking N/A	Swimming 2 slow - 8 fast
Behavior
Aggressive? Only when attacked	Can Enter Submarine? No
Sight 1	Hearing 1
Drops only 1 of the items marked with an asterisk * may drop at a time
Item(s)	Chance
None	N/A

Description

The Hammerhead Matriarch is a large dark red squid-like creature with 4 arms attached to its torso. Its head is a large, fragile sac of eggs.
The Hammerhead Spawn hatching from those eggs have the shape of a standard Hammerhead, only much smaller and sharing the Matriarch's dark-red shade.

In-game

The Hammerhead Matriarch is not aggressive until provoked and will flee on sight of a submarine. Upon being attacked however, it will retaliate with its only attack, a suicidal, devastating assault on the submarine's hull. The impact makes its egg sac burst, releasing 30 hammerhead spawn.
The spawn aren't capable of damaging the hull, but the strength of their mother's assault is likely to have caused a breach right where they are released.
Killing the Matriarch before it has a chance to ram the submarine may prevent the spawn from entering. Most of its body has 90% armor against all Internal Damage types and 80% resistance against Bleeding, however the Matriarch's head takes 10 times the Gunshot Wounds and Lacerations.

Hammerhead Spawn are weak and may not be hard to kill individually, but their numbers can quickly become problematic to an unprepared crew. Should other hostile creatures still be attacking the submarine, such as Hammerheads that were defending the Matriarch, dealing with both inside and outside creatures can be a challenge. The spawn are easily dispatched with melee weapons like wrenches or knives, and incendiary weapons are highly effective. Being unable to move or attack outside of water, fixing the breaches and pumping the water out will leave them defenseless and quickly kill them.

Damage Values

Hammerhead Matriarch:

Item	Afflictions	Structure Damage	Attack Duration	Cooldown
Nose Attack	Bite Wounds 25 Stun 1 sec On self: Internal Damage 1000	200	0.1 Seconds	15 Seconds

Hammerhead Spawn
Stats
Health 5	Armor N/A
Weakpoints None	Armored Points None
Speed
Walking N/A	Swimming 1.6 slow - 3 fast
Behavior
Aggressive? Always	Can Enter Submarine? Yes
Sight 1	Hearing 1
Drops only 1 of the items marked with an asterisk * may drop at a time
Item(s)	Chance
None	N/A

Hammerhead Spawn:

Item	Afflictions	Structure Damage	Stun Duration	Attack Duration	Cooldown
Head	Bite Wounds 1	0	0	0.25 Seconds	3 Seconds

Trivia

• If a Nasonov Artifact is on board, the Matriarch will attack even unprovoked.
• The Hammerhead Spawn is the weakest creature in the game.

Audio

• MHAMMERHEAD idle1.ogg

  Idle 1

• MHAMMERHEAD damage1.ogg

  Taking damage 1

• MHAMMERHEAD explosion1.ogg

  Exploding 1