The Vornid Pirates

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From the Khurasan blog:

"Perhaps the strangest of all the sentients in known space are the Vornids, commonly called “slavers” or “pirates” because they often engage in piracy or raiding for the primary purpose of seizing other sentients to sell in the galactic slave market. They inhabit a chain of heavily fortified colony pods on the mid-level belts of the gas giant Vornus 5, and also live, sometimes temporarily, in many colonies and outposts in outlying star systems. They possess sophisticated technology and are capable of FTL travel.

"Vornids are the only known sentient botanoids capable of fairly rapid movement. They transport themselves using a series of motor-vines emanating from the base of the body trunk, and are also capable of precise manipulation using mid-trunk manipulator-vines. They are capable of obtaining energy by both consuming other life-forms just as animals (and some plants) do, or by more conventional photosynthesis. They “see” by continuously emitting spores from a single “eye” on top of the body trunk, which return information to the individual. While radically different from the senses of most sentient animals, this system evidently produces roughly equivalent awareness of the creatures’ surroundings."

As Khurasan currently only produce infantry, I decided that the fact that the Vornid were pirates meant that any support weapons would have been stolen or otherwise 'acquired' from black market sources. Combine this with Khurasan's excellent mushroom men Fungi range as crew, and you have some fine looking models!

Update:  Hydra Miniatures excellent Slishians provide some very nice Big Men and heavy gunners for the Vornids. Over seven foot of malevolent vegetable...I like to think they are responsible for leading the usually placid Vornid astray!

Slishians

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Command Group

Gunners

Infantry

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1st Platoon

2nd Platoon

Support Units

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Anti-Tank Guns

AA Missiles

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