"What the hell is that?" Commander Cody to Starkiller during the Creed invasion of Ni'kar
A Hunter is a walker used by the Creed, it is a all purpose walker, and often used for heavy assault. It is made of the same bio-technological material used by the Creed to develop all the weapons they use. The Hunter is capable of going head to head with Imperial walkers such as AT-AT, AT-AA, AT-ST, and AT-DPs, and is also used for anti air operations.
The Hunter is often stored in Creed Bio-ships, in a spherical shaped pod.
Description[]
"Neil-1444 reporting for duty" Creed Hunter to Ahoska Tano
The Hunter was a imposing quadrupedal combat walker that stood 10.9ft tall. Unlike the AT-AT, it isn't used for psychologically warfare, its used for heavy assault, and anti-air operations. It also serves as a siege engine. It featured advanced echolocation systems, that allows it to detect enemies at a further range.
It carries 5x harpoons made from bio-energy and are stored in its back, as well as 2x bio energy cannons stored underneath its head, and a 1x repeating energy cannon in its belly. The single pilot sits in the middle of the walker. The Hunter has a tough outer plating which adapts to different environments and is able to absorb laser, missiles, and kinetic weaponry.
History[]
Age of war[]
The Creed, have been using bio-technology to develop droids, and walkers, in warfare for centuries , the Hunter and its variants a heavy duty long range siege cannon the Vertigo, and the anti-infantry variant equipped with a flamethrower, are just the latest in a long line. The Hunter was used alongside the smaller open cockpit recon walker the swarmed, and a wheeled vehicle used for recon, the Gecko.
The Creed, towards the rise of the Ascendancy, and the Clone War era, developed more and more advanced walkers, such as the Hunter, Terror, Swarm, Gecko, and droids such as the Bloodstrike, a symbiotic droid often paired with a human bio-weapon known as a Blood.
Battle for Alter[]
These War machines were used in a Pan-Galatic conflict, during the time of the Clone wars the empires of the Unknown Regions battled each other for control of a major resource called Hessian-61 a radioactive material found on the planet Terron, in the Sol system. Terron was home to humans but they were wiped out by the Khoan decades ago. Ahoska Tano was captured by a Hunter during the battle of Izod in the Sol system, she helped a Blood after her Blood-Strike was wounded, during the bloody four-way battle, the three made their way through a massive sea of bodies, and husk of warships and walkers to a Creed Outpost, were Ahoska was captured, but the Blood named Blood +1112 vouched for her. Ahoska then lead a squadrons of Hunters and a Terror against Separatist war-machines, who sized the Human colony of Altar. Ahoska forces including dozens of Hunters, Creed warriors, Praetorian 's, Spartans, and Acid throwers, and a Terror. Using the Terror, Ahsoka smashed the Separatist wall which was built around the base of General Huron Hux* ( a ancestor of the First Order's General Hux), this allowed the swarms of Creed's and their subjects the Najions to overwhelm the droids