N-6117 BioRaptor are the main antagonists in the 2000 film Pitch Black.
The spaceship Hunter-Gratzner, (a passenger transport ship) crash lands on a desert planet in the M-334g system, N-6117.
The survivors seek refuge at a local mining camp abandoned by its inhabitants. While exploring the camp they discover an orrey which shows this planet will enter into a long duration eclipse of total darkness. While looking for water one of the survivors is gruesomely killed and the rest suspect convicted murder prisoner Riddick as the murderer. A young settler exploring the camp is then killed as well.
While searching for the murdered settler the pilot of the doomed transport enters a cave and is attacked by subterranean creatures, barely escaping with her life.
It is determined that the subterranean creatures are photosensitive, carnivorous and deadly predators.
As the eclipse brings darkness the creatures emerge from their underground network and swarm the planet.
Appearance
N-6117 BioRaptor vary in size from small and birdlike to large bear-size. They are equipped with wings and long split tails. They possess eyes on the ends of long head stalks which protrude horizontally. Their heads are ventrally symetric sporting long sharp crests and long sharp teeth. They are albino (lacking pigment) which gives them a slightly flesh color to their leathery skin. They possess legs and feet for ground locomotion and can move quite fast and gracefully. Their hands have sharp claws and a retractable dagger-like palm protrusion used to impale prey to hold it while it bites off chunks of meat with bone crushing force.
Powers and Abilities
N-6117 BioRaptor possesses the following powers and abilities:
- Sharp teeth
- Flight
- Digging with claws and foot talons
- Fast ground movement
- Fast reflexes
- Swarming
- Rending, clawing and dismemberment using its limbs and hands
- Powerful bite which can crush bone
- Tail whip
- Carnivorous up to and including cannibalism
Weaknesses[]
- Extremely light sensitive causing skin to burn when exposed
- Blind spot directly in front of it causing it to need to sway its head side to side for a full view
- Lacks peripheral vision
Fate
Except for a few individual creatures killed during the survivor's escape from the planet and cannibalism most of the creatures survive.
Trivia
- The alien creatures, designed by Patrick Tatopoulos, have three phases of evolution:
1. Larval: small, worm-like, harmless, and bioluminescent (Fry, Imam and Jack meet them in the cave).
2. Mid level: small, bat-like, and fly in flocks to hunt (they kill Shazza during the eclipse).
3. Adult: large, gray, possessing wide narrow heads, who can easily kill a human alone, as well as their own kind for food (they kill Johns, Paris, Fry, and others).
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