(Items - Rad) Companions: Terran Travel Pets

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**Companion Market**

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*Enclosure-Bound Pets*, *Tiny Travelling Pets*, *Base-Wandering Pets*, ***True Travel Companions***, *Work and Utility Animals*, *Restricted and Combat Animals*

# Terra-Born True Travel Companions

## Colony Dog

Rarity **2**, (90%) - [**175c**]

**Biosignature Tags** - [Medium], [Mammal], [Land-Dwelling]

**Mature Size / Weight** - (l)1.2m+ / 15kg+
**Age of Maturity / Lifespan** - 3 Standards / 40 Standards+
**Diet** - Omnivore, Some Variety
**Rough EQ / IQ Potential** - Somewhat High / Somewhat High
**Description** - The role of dogs as "Man's best friend" has hardly diminished over the centuries; a family of dogs is a common addition to the crew of a colony formation attempt, they serve excellently in the exploration of new worlds, they're still common in police forces, and thanks to their prime role of import, they haven't been shorted on improvements. Most modern dogs are omnivores, capable of surviving off a decent variety of carbon-based food sources, although protein is still a high requirement. Lifespans increased, with improved intelligence and learning abilities mean they are more receptive than ever to training, some individuals displaying near-human intelligence at times, if not the complex sense of self awareness.

## Trace Fox

Rarity **7**, (25%) - [**800c**]

**Biosignature Tags** - [Small], [Mammal], [Land-Dwelling]

**Mature Size / Weight** - (l)0.5m / 4kg
**Age of Maturity / Lifespan** - 2 Standards / 30 Standards
**Diet** - Carnivore, Some Variety
**Rough EQ / IQ Potential** - Somewhat Low / Somewhat High
**Description** - Most closely resembling perhaps a fennec fox, this creature was created from gene banks with a more specific focus. Changes to the brain give the fox increased reasoning skills and both long and short-term memory, giving it the capacity for training, while massive improvements to the olfactory cells of the animal give it an extremely acute sense of smell, making it naturally a very, very effective tracker and hunter. Due to its small size and lack of significant combat power, it will mostly naturally end up hunting insects, but domesticated individuals are often put to use by a variety of groups for the purposes of tracking, some even going as far as to further gene mod, or even cybernetically implant, their trace foxes to further improve their abilities. They aren't very social animals, taking a lot of care and dedication to bond with, and are frequently defensive of their owner, sensing if a situation is getting tense by the pheromone changes in people.

## Scout Hawk

Rarity **5**, (55%) - [**500c**]

**Biosignature Tags** - [Small], [Bird], [Surface-Dwelling], [Nocturnal], [Flying]

**Mature Size / Weight** - (h)0.3m / 2kg
**Age of Maturity / Lifespan** - 2 Standards / 20 Standards
**Diet** - Carnivore, Some Variety
**Rough EQ / IQ Potential** - Somewhat Low / Somewhat High
**Description** - Genetically not actually a hawk of any kind, this now quite-distant descendent of a variety of smaller corvid is still an excellent hunter. With nighttime visual acuity as good as that of owls, these birds use their remarkable intelligence and vastly-improved sight to find, well, anything you might like. While untrained scout hawks make for fun, quirky, and smart pets, if trouble-makers at heart, individuals that have been through rigorous training can recognize and understand fairly complex area and search parameter instructions, and can even use and understand maps to help indicate the location of the thing they found. While individuals that have that much training are rarely available at pet shops, a dedicated owner can do much the same, and many argue that a well-trained scout hawk is better than a drone.