I love the idea of space whales and hunting them... or you know, studying them. But how would this look practically in ED?
If it were out in the black you'd need a way of finding them... random USS spawns seem the likely candidate, like "Organics Detected: Threat Unknown". Or stick with the "Anomaly: Threat 4"? Then when you drop in on the signal source it's a huge pod of space whales of varying sizes with the larger ones being fiercely protective of the smaller ones, and will try to eat the ship if you aggro them. But of course, they can't die easily otherwise there'd be no point, they'd need some kind of organic shielding from beam lasers and protection from cannon.
As for locations:
- Likely to spawn in any system that could be considered inside a nebula - including small single system planetary nebulae?
- Clouds of gas giants?
- Gas giant ring systems?
- Within nav beacon distance of a star?
Let's do some theory crafting, people!
Maybe once attacked they start high-waking out in a similar fashion to the alien ship hyperdrive - that looks kind of organic.
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