CaptainStench

## Quick Summary

Sally Stench is a space pilot who is captain of a group called "Phantoms", a crew known for raiding space ships and planets for their resources. Her pillaging days were over once her ship had a head on collision with a meteor that so happen to had landed on the world of Terraria. Her 32 years of space travel was put to a end when she was left stranded in the world of Terraria with her whole crew tragically killed from the collision. The only thing left for her to do is to make companions on Terraria and prepare for whats to come.

## Trivia

Captain Sally Stench is the first fan sprite contributed companion for Terra Guardians mod, and also the first companion with its own unique weapons and AI making it the most technically complex guardian currently in the mod. The design of the Terra Guardian was heavily inspired by characters from the "Star Fox" series where animals are space pilots and traverse the cosmos in their space ships. She was sprited by "Smokey" a contributor/supporter from steam and discord who also is responsible for giving the idea for the pig guardians, with one currently implemented named "Wrath".

As stated above Stench uses unique weapons which are a Gem Saber and a Arm Blaster both which are permanent and are used in place of terraria's melee and ranged weapons. Even though Stench can't use regular weapons she can use the damage scaling from regular weapons meaning whatever weapons you have equipped in her 1st and 2nd slots of her hotbar they will increase the damage of her sword strikes/skills and her blaster projectile damage so its best to still equip her with the best possible gear for maximum damage output.

Gem Saber is a unique weapon that Stench uses for melee attacks and can be infused with Terraria gem stones to produce special effects and abilities that can be helpful in combat. Arm blaster is a unique ranged weapon that scales with 45% of the range weapon currently equipped to Stench and rapid fires defense negating energy projectiles.

Stench brings a unique item called Phantom device which can be repaired and upgraded through a quest. With the Phantom device equipped to her accessory slot she is able to use a special attack called "Phantom Blitz" which sporadically dashes through enemies at high speeds causing major damage and can be used many times when upgrading the phantom device which has 5 tiers of upgrades.

## Raccoon Trivia

Sally Stench... Just like another companion Smokey created, I accepted the challenge of trying to make such ambitious project of companion. Initially, Smokey were giving small spoilers of what his newest companion would be, and I ended up shootting a soccer ball the wrong way all the time. There was even a moment where I thought she would grow weapons off her body, like Generator Rex does.

Her development was a bit troubled, since she was actually something new I had to make, and the system I created to support her attacks is actually very limited, which means that in the future I'll have to rework the sub attack system, to not only make It easier, but also make it better to create companion abilities.

I'm actually disappointed that she doesn't has a "backside" cannon, but whatever, there she is, and she can kick ass.