So my character our upcomming game is a Herglic Explorer: Trader(+Big Game Hunter?..eventually or from the start?). His obligation is an Oath to hunt down and kill a huge space monster that ate the trading ship he grew up on.

Now he roams the Outer Rim(I think), searching for the monster, kind of like Ahab in Moby ****. Ok, so it`s very inspired by Moby ****, I`m playing a whale-guy with a big harpoon for Force sake!..

Are there any fitting alien monsters in Star Wars? Canon or EU, I don`t care!

Also, do you think it`s coolest to start out fresh like a trader who just recently lost his ship and home, and eventually becomming a Big Game Hunter, or should I start out with both specs?

Does Big Game Hunter even fit my idea?... Are there space monsters that travel from world to world and can be tracked with survival, hunted and killed on-planet with heavy ranged?...

Space Worm? And if I'm not mistaken there are space dragons, but they are very rare. Then there are the big things in that Nebula in TCW cartoon.

I imagine something like this would work really well.

Now he roams the Outer Rim(I think), searching for the monster, kind of like Ahab in Moby ****. Ok, so it`s very inspired by Moby ****, I`m playing a whale-guy with a big harpoon for Force sake!..

Are there any fitting alien monsters in Star Wars? Canon or EU, I don`t care!

Exogorth? See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Exogorth

Sounds like an Exogorth to me. Hard to forget the one that almost at the Falcon in Episode V.

Now he roams the Outer Rim(I think), searching for the monster, kind of like Ahab in Moby ****. Ok, so it`s very inspired by Moby ****, I`m playing a whale-guy with a big harpoon for Force sake!..

Are there any fitting alien monsters in Star Wars? Canon or EU, I don`t care!

Exogorth? See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Exogorth

Sounds like an Exogorth to me. Hard to forget the one that almost at the Falcon in Episode V.

Yes and yes, they are cool:) But how mobile are they?... I guess the attack could have been the result of a bad astrogation calculation and hyperspace jump(my fault maybe), so I don`t know where in hyperspace it is...

Or it could have been the result of an evil forceuser, a dark jedi or sith, that moves these things around to attack ships...

According to the Wiki, the Exogorth's are pretty much limited to asteroid fields, but can also use Solar Winds to move, so maybe like a really really massive asteroid field in Wild Space. Alternatively, if you throw in the Sith/Dark Jedi route, perhaps it was a Exogorth that has been experimented on/mutated and can now travel faster/more easily through space.

Or, just make something up on your own, a giant white space whale!

In issue #5 of the new Marvel "Darth Vader" series, Vader and his accomplice invade a laboratory that has been built on and into the body of a spacegoing behemoth:

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/319/files/2015/05/darth-vader-5-space-whales.jpg

The creatures are not named, but the comics are canon, so there is definitely a spacegoing beast big enough to accidentally or intentionally devour a starship whole.

I guess the attack could have been the result of a bad astrogation calculation and hyperspace jump(my fault maybe), so I don`t know where in hyperspace it is...

Or it could have been the result of an evil forceuser, a dark jedi or sith, that moves these things around to attack ships...

There’s also the Oswaft , the Neebray Manta , and the Space Worm .

With this many giant space life forms, I’m sure you can find — or create — plenty of others.

If you're interested, RodianClone, I put some stats for giant space slugs on my blog.

http://talesfromtheedgeoftheempire.blogspot.com/2014/10/space-slugs.html

-Nate

Cool idea for a background, and thematically Big Game Hunter sounds like it might fit, but look carefully into that tree if you are pursuing ship eating monsters as this talent tree will not help you very much. If his questing is learning how to kill bigger and bigger monsters on his path to finding that elusive creature, then all is well. If he is doggedly following this "space killer whale", then you need piloting and gunnery skills and a lot of your best rebel or scum friends.

Keep in mind that in FFG's books, huge creatures like that aren't given normal creature/NPC stats, but have ship stats instead.

Keep in mind that in FFG's books, huge creatures like that aren't given normal creature/NPC stats, but have ship stats instead.

Don`t need stats, just something to chase:)

For all I care, the "final battle", if it ever comes, doesn`t even have to be a combat encounter, it can be handled with a few skill checks of any kind, a chase or a narrative encounter of a sort.

Cool idea for a background, and thematically Big Game Hunter sounds like it might fit, but look carefully into that tree if you are pursuing ship eating monsters as this talent tree will not help you very much. If his questing is learning how to kill bigger and bigger monsters on his path to finding that elusive creature, then all is well. If he is doggedly following this "space killer whale", then you need piloting and gunnery skills and a lot of your best rebel or scum friends.

Relly wanted to put BGH in there. It sounds so right and it`s the spec that inspired this character!... But I think you might be right..

I can't remember if it used Ranged (Heavy), but in Suns of Fortune there's the Styanax (sp?) Lance, which is described in the fluff as being a big harpoon literally hurled by expert users called "stabmen"

The Force & Destiny rulebook alludes to a ship that returned from former Sith space with a huge chunk apparently bitten out of the hull and the Imperials covering it up. It's the first time I felt a little creeped out by a Star Wars book.

Thats what people get when they go where they aren't invited.

The Force & Destiny rulebook alludes to a ship that returned from former Sith space with a huge chunk apparently bitten out of the hull and the Imperials covering it up. It's the first time I felt a little creeped out by a Star Wars book.

I just got that book the day before yesterday. That sounds very cool, where can I read about it?

Off the top of my head, I think it's somewhere in the galaxy/planets section - one of the sidebars, I think. When I get home this evening, I'll find the page number for you.

The Force & Destiny rulebook alludes to a ship that returned from former Sith space with a huge chunk apparently bitten out of the hull and the Imperials covering it up. It's the first time I felt a little creeped out by a Star Wars book.

I just got that book the day before yesterday. That sounds very cool, where can I read about it?

Pg 364 - Secrets of the Sith sidebar.