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Animorphs

Andalite Technology

Everything below is presumably of Andalite origin.

Dome Ship
This mushroom-shaped craft is enormous. The main saucer-shaped section is maybe half a mile across, with a clear dome covering a park over the center. The "stem" section has the drive engines and weapons. The two sections can be separated, but the dome can only maneuver lightly, enough to keep it in orbit or move it away from a battle.

Escafil Device
This Andalite invention gives the morph ability. No known race has the ability naturally, but any DNA-based creature can gain it by touching this small blue cube (about four inches on a side) for one minute. It only works once for any given creature, though. Touching it a second time has no effect.

Fighter
About the size of a large RV. Its tail-mounted shredder cannon has a +10 damage factor. Most controls work by thought-speak.

Gleet Biofilter
This Andalite device can be programmed for a number of DNA patterns. It will then kill all non-programmed patterns. It cannot distinguish between members of a species, nor can it count how many species representatives are in its reach.

Ionic-dispersion Explosive
Andalite weapon mentioned in passing by Aldrea in The Hork-Bajir Chronicles.

Quantum-level Virus
A quantum-level virus infects the host at the molecular level, rather than the cellular. This bypasses the immune system and causes a rapid death as the host body falls apart. The only example we have is Virus Q-One-Eighteen from The Hork-Bajir Chronicles.

Proton-shift Device
In Megamorphs #2: In the Time of the Dinosaurs, Ax believes an H-bomb to be one of these, due to the power of the explosion. (He also makes disparaging comments about plutonium.) Later on he comments that most Andalite explosives are no larger than a baseball. Proton-shift explosives must therefore generate at least as much energy as a modern thermonuclear warhead, and are probably capable of a lot more. They're also highly concealable.

Shredder
This is the basic Andalite energy weapon. It has the same damage range as Dracon beams, but can also be set to stun with no physical damage. It tends to spread rapidly unless it's being fired through a fairly clear atmosphere or space. It also doesn't cause the pain that Dracon beams do. However, both shredders and Dracon beams lose power over distance. In The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, Esplin 9466 bases his strategy in part on the increased effectiveness of the weapons at 5,000 meters versus 20,000 meters.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Characters
  3. Aliens
  4. Creatures
  5. Things
    1. Andalite Technology
    2. Yeerk Technology
    3. Other Technology
  6. Campaigns
  7. Recommended Reading

Original material © Patrick Clark 2000
Everything else is either © Steffan O'Sullivan or © K. A. Applegate.
Last updated 13 April 2000

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