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==Mind Flayer Ships== Because of [[retcon|speculated time travel shenanigans]], the ships popular with mind flayers during 2e were Spelljammer, created initially as a joint effort with humans as a way to deal with raiders while still sitting in the spectator seats as the Unhuman Wars raged. Though still known as brain-eating enslavers, mind flayers of wild space could be more trustworthy and allowed to make port in more places than a [[neogi]] or thier grounding counterparts. Ships have a cephalopod theme, with a shell-like command center to shield from sunlight and a large wooden spike ram carved in the shape of twisting tentacles. When 3e rolled around, Mind Flayers leaned heavier and more overtly into thier Cosmic Horror themes, now being the last survivors of a collapsed empire in a far future alternate timeline. It was not until 5e that Mind Flayer ships were mentioned again, with only the Nautiloid as an example, but another could be extrapolated. It looks like the ships of 2e were further evolved, [[Archeotech|now relics of another age]], the textures look too alien to be regular wood, and the wood tentacle carvings were replaced with real tentacles. ===Cuttle Command=== ::Built By: Humans, mind flayers ::Used Primarily By: Human wizards ::Tonnage: 100 ::Hull Points: 100 ::Crew: 30/100 ::Manueverability Class: E ::Landing - Land: Yes ::Landing - Water: No ::Armor Rating: 8 ::Saves As: Thick wood ::Power Type: Major helm ::Ship's Rating: As per helmsman ::Standard Armaments: 4 Heavy ballistae, 2 Heavy catapults, 1 Heavy jettison ::Cargo: 50 tons ::Keel/Beam Length: 120 ft. (high) by Variable ::Cost: 100,000 gp A ship of the Humans/mind flayers alliance during the Unhuman Wars. This ten-story-tall flying tower was mostly used by humans as mobile command base. Despite breaking most common sense in terms of Spelljammer warship-building doctrines, those wizards just couldn't feel safe unless their workplace was tower-shaped. As a result, despite its big imposing numbers, it has glaring design flaws when you call your shoots. Because the gravity plane is determined by the longest length on the ship, large weapon platforms needed to be placed on 4 out of 8 spindly tentacles so the plane goes through Cuttlefishe's eyes. At least the weapons crew can drift to the gun emplacements from the main body, but gods forbid you to get knocked off when the makeshift safety line you had to invent ([[fail|because the makers didn't think of that when designing this ship]]) gets cut. And also forbid that the enemy starts aiming at those tentacles, causing everyone to slam into a wall and having to navigate the now horizontal spiral staircases. <gallery> Legend of Spelljammer Cuttle Command Stats.png Legend of Spelljammer Cuttle Command.png </gallery> ===Nautiloid=== ::Built By: ::Used Primarily By: ::Tonnage: ::Hull Points: ::Crew: ::Manueverability Class: ::Landing - Land: ::Landing - Water: ::Armor Rating: ::Saves As: ::Power Type: ::Ship's Rating: ::Standard Armaments: ::Cargo: ::Keel Length: ::Beam Length: <gallery> Nautiloid 2e.jpg Nautiloid MA.jpg Sais-nautiloid-splash.png| 5e variant, now with a longer front deck and live tentacles. Sais-map-2.07-nautiloid.jpg| schematics an upscaled remaster of the 2e deck planes despite not matching with the new 5e design Sais-wreck-lucent-edict.png Air-and-gravity with Nautiloid.png| the 2e Nautiloid design is used again to demonstrate gravity planes. Sais-on-the-cover.png </gallery> ===Dreadnought=== ::Built By: ::Used Primarily By: ::Tonnage: ::Hull Points: ::Crew: ::Manueverability Class: ::Landing - Land: ::Landing - Water: ::Armor Rating: ::Saves As: ::Power Type: ::Ship's Rating: ::Standard Armaments: ::Cargo: ::Keel Length: ::Beam Length: <gallery> Legend of Spelljammer Illithid Dreadnougth Stat.png Spelljammer Illithid Dreadnought deck.png </gallery> ===Octopus (Tailgunner)=== ::Built By: ::Used Primarily By: ::Tonnage: ::Hull Points: ::Crew: ::Manueverability Class: ::Landing - Land: ::Landing - Water: ::Armor Rating: ::Saves As: ::Power Type: ::Ship's Rating: ::Standard Armaments: ::Cargo: ::Keel Length: ::Beam Length: <gallery> Legend of Spelljammer Octopus stat.png Legend of Spelljammer Octopus decks.png </gallery>
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