Titan-024

## General Information

Titan-024, is an insect closely related to the order Odonata, and resembling a large dragonfly. Most historians within the Foundation believe Titan-024's first appearance was in the mid to late 1600s and what is now Iraq, and last known appearance being in 1991. Titan-024 has since become a local legend in the small village of [REDACTED], known to the locals as "Alyaesub Aldamu," or more commonly just Aldamu. It roughly translates to "Blood Dragonfly" in Arabic. Titan-024 offspring are believed to still be alive in the middle-eastern deserts.

## Appearances

* ===16XX===

The first recorded sighting of Titan-024-1 is Believed to have occurred in the 1600s in modern Iraq, near the village of [REDACTED]. The story goes that a local boy in the village was found in the desert bloodied and scared. He says he was playing with a calf near his home, but the calf then wondered off. The boy searched for it and found the calf half dead in the sand. When he tried to pick the baby cow up, out of nowhere dust clouds surrounded him. The boy then heard a loud chirping and saw what he thought was a djinn (middle-eastern spirit) in the form of a giant blood red dragonfly. the entity then clawed the dead calf out of his hands, drenched the boy in cows blood, and knocked his to the ground. He than ran back to the village. That night, a group of villager lead by the local imam (Muslim priest or rabbi) hunted down the entity. the story ends with them killing it with fire and prayers, and went on to be told to young children to scare them from going out into the desert alone.

* ===1991===

During the First Gulf War, the US deployed troops in multiple countries including Iraq. During a routine patrol on [REDACTED], Sargent [REDACTED] and his team of two privates reported hearing a odd chirping noise, but didn't think anything of it with Private [REDACTED] assuming it was a helicopter heading out from base camp. As they trailed back the way they came, they heard the same chirping but much louder. Then their vehicle was flipped over by Titan-024-2, emerging from the sand. The rest of the report has been redacted at this time, but Titan-024-2 has since been classified as Neutralized. In the necropsy, many fertile eggs were found and currently under surveillance.

* ===2011===

On [REDACTED], 2011, one of the Titan-024 eggs hatched at Outpost [REDACTED] located in Indonesia. Titan-024-3 emerged from the soil of an enclosure after being in gestation for almost [REDACTED] years, biologist presume that this species does most of it's embryonic development inside the mother. Titan-024-3, given the nickname "Mu" (short for Aldamu) by it's care takers, Stands at a foot and a half with and 4ft long, with each individual wing measuring at 5ft. Titan-024-3 does not seem hostile and is quite friendly towards humans, feeds on an almost exclusive carnivores diet. After some DNA testing Titan-024-3 will, with a steady diet, live indefinitely. More information on Titan-024-3 will be shared once declassified.

* ===2020===

On [REDACTED], 2020 Titan-024-3 showed hostility towards humans when during an experiment in which Dr. [Redacted] put out large 10,000 gallon tanks of blood from various animals and titans. Titan-024-3 showed interest in drinking blood from large herbivores and little in carnivores. When presented with titan blood, Titan-024-3 would gently lower his forelimbs into the tanks and calmly run his claws through the blood not dissimilar to a kid in a pool. Dr. [REDACTED] then decided to see how Titan-024-3 would react to human blood, and had multiple tanks of blood placed in Titan-024-3's Enclosure B-2. Titan-024-3 demonstrated reactions similar to the regular animals, with the notable exception of blood from people with heavy plant based diets in which after ingesting it Titan-024-3 began to show symptoms similar to that of a person on stimulants. Then fellow Dr. [REDACTED], who is herself a vegetarian, tested to see Titan-024-3s reaction to fresh blood and pricked her finger, then almost immediately Titan-024-3 flew to her and proceeded to [REDACTED]. Now all personnel who is to be in close proximity to Titan-024-3 can not have a heavy diet of plants.

## Statistics

### Weight:

Titan-024-3 was

* 40 lbs. at birth
* 400 lbs. at adolescence
* 4,000 lbs. at sub adult

## Sex

Titan-024-2 was proven to be a female when eggs were found during the necropsy, and Titan-024-3 was found to be male after DNA tests.

## Abilities

### **Claws**

The claws of Titan-024 in test have been proven to be twice as sharp as the finest man made blade, being able to slice through steel. And also possesses serrated tooth-like projections on each claw.

### **Flight**

Titan-024's wings theoretically can flap at 150 beats per minute, and cause gust of wind similar to a helicopter. Observations of Titan-024-3 shows it can reach speeds up to mach 3, but it's unclear if this is its top speed.

### **Burrowing**

In all encounters with Titan-024, they have shown remarkable burrowing abilities. It's currently believed that Titan-024 eggs are laid under the sand, and the larvae are adapted to burrow until adulthood. Examinations on Titan-024-2 reveal it to be a sub adult, and likely hunted by hiding in the sand waiting to snatch prey.

### **Intelligence**

Titan-024-3 shows intelligence similar to that of a human toddler after birth. Now that Titan-024-3 has entered sub adulthood his intelligence is more closely comparable to human in their early to mid teens.

## Weaknesses

### **Fire**

Titan-024 shows a lack of defense when it comes to fire based attacks, but seeing how all test done so far has only been conducted on deceased juvenile specimens, we have yet to see how Titan-024 really performs with fire.

## Image

Taken by Dr. [REDACTED] after Titan-024-3 emerged from the soil in Enclosure B-2.