Magnetyrant

A creature with a hybrid organic/metallic physiology that resembles a giant, magnetic Tyrannosaur, native to a planet in the Beta Draconis system. Magnetyrants feed on both flesh and metal from the bodies of other magnetic creatures in their native ecosystem, and absorb electrical energy from lightning strikes that they attract by standing on mountain peaks. Because of their energy-manipulating biology, they are strongly resistant to phasers, though disrupters are more effective.

The magnetyrant species was named by the Amarki zoologist Noran Sael. Sael came into possession of a magnetyrant research specimen shortly after the species' discovery by Starfleet, when the Academia Amarkia purchased one from Yrillian big game hunters who had previously tried to sell it to the Sydraxians for use in their gladiatorial games (the Sydraxians weren't interested, as the magnetyrant was too deadly for their purposes).

Game History

 * In the second quarter of 2309, the USS S'Harien conducted a survey of the magnetyrants' homeworld. Captain Saavik and her away team were attacked by a magnetyrant, and had to flee it to higher ground (despite this being the animals' own nesting ground) in order to be beamed back up. The planet was deemed unsuitable for colonization because of its harsh weather and hostile, biomagnetic native life forms.