Large Rat

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Locations
Large Rats can often be encountered in and around abandoned bases. They breathe oxygen and cannot survive in environments that are acidic, radioactive or have an extreme temperature.

Appearance and behavior


Rats look like a a mixture of earth rats and star-nosed moles. Their most important sensory organ is their snout whose appendages are used as tactile organs that help the rat to navigate, identify food and prey on smaller creatures in complete darkness. Additionally the snout has four nostrils, hinting to an extraordinary sense of smell, maybe even capable of the 3-dimensional localization of olfactoric stimuli.

Rats live in small groups and will attack anybody who gets close to them. If this hostile behavior is normal for them or rooted in starvation or a rabies-like disease (that also might be to blame for the ragged looks of their fur) is not known.

The Large Rats in Green Crystal Cave are radioactive.

Missions
Abandoned CU station (all three factions)