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=== Coggoths ===
Mechanical abberrations, based partially on [[Shoggoth]]s, partially on World War One-era caricatures about tanks, partially on how people pre-World-War-One imagined "land dreadnoughts", partially by IRL multi-turret tanks and steampunk landships.

Horrific amalgamations of spare parts, cogs, springs, cannons, armor plating and other malformed steampunk/clockpunk machinery, waddling along the land while assimilating everything in it's path. It works like universal factory, able to produce anything, assimilate anything nearby and unlead materials when necessary.

In melee, it uses it's numerous mechanical manipulators to attack, and it sucks up all metal to assimilate. In ranged fight, it uses automatic cannons sticking in literally all directions, ranging from 20-mm to 900+ mm, shooting at all targets in their firing ark with characteristic "POM-POM" sounds. The thing itself and rounds of cannons are made from dreaded Brass Goo.

Due to amorphous form, they take little-to-no damage from physical attacks; as they're clockwork and fully-metallic, they take little-to-no damage from low-temperature-fire and electricity either. Only being completely liquefied (e.g. with plasma), disintegrated, or dismantled with nanorobots stops them; if ripped into shreds by explosion or enormous cannon, they eventually regenerate and combine into great whole again.

The more it assimilates, more it grows. "Average" Coggoth is about as large as normal Shoggoth - but larger Coggoths can grow so massive as to dwarf mountains.