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Nullsoul Host

Source Starfinder #31: Waking the Worldseed pg. 59

Nullsoul Host CR 13

XP 25,600
CE Medium construct (android, magical, technological)
Init +8; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +23

Defense

HP 235
EAC 27; KAC 29
Fort +13; Ref +13; Will +10
DR 10/adamantine; Immunities construct immunities
Weaknesses disrupt soul

Offense

Speed 40 ft.
Melee slam +27 (3d12+17 B plus nullsoul)
Ranged nanite shard +24 (6d6+13 P plus nullsoul)
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 13th)
1/day—rapid repair
3/day—digital doorway
At will—nondetection

Statistics

STR +4; DEX +8; CON —; INT +6; WIS +2; CHA -4
Skills Athletics +28, Computers +23, Engineering +23
Other Abilities integrated tools

Ecology

Environment any
Organization solitary or plague (2–15)

Special Abilities

Disrupt Soul (Su) A nullsoul host traps the soul of its victim within itself, but healing magic disrupts this effect and damages the host. Any effect that heals the Hit Points of living creatures instead deals damage to a nullsoul host; the nullsoul host does not get a saving throw against this damage, even if the effect would normally grant one.
Integrated Tools (Ex) A nullsoul host can quickly reconfigure its limbs and digits into whatever tools it requires. As a move action, a nullsoul host can turn one of its limbs into a tool kit of any type or turn the tool kit back into a limb. The nullsoul host can manipulate these tools without requiring an additional hand. These tool kits cannot be removed from the nullsoul host even after it’s destroyed.
Nanite Shard (Su) A nullsoul host can fling a shard of nanites containing raw nullsoul data. This attack has a range increment of 40 feet and exposes androids to nullsoul.

Description

Nullsoul is a supernatural plague that spreads through androids, cutting them off from the River of Souls, corrupting their spiritual essence, and turning victims into atavistic conductors. Nullsoul spreads by touch, causing more and more androids to lose their minds. In their place, a cruel and hungry intellect rises.
When a victim transforms into a nullsoul host, their organs harden into machinery. They become fast and implacable, reconfiguring their own bodies to make necessary tools and infect other androids. When rumors of “the android plague” break out on a planet or space station, military forces often quarantine and exterminate the victims.

Nullsoul

Type disease (contact); Save Fortitude DC 19
Track mental (special); Frequency 1/day
Effect progression track is Healthy—Latent—Weakened—Allied—Compelled—Transformed. Only androids can contract nullsoul. At the allied state, the victim cannot willingly harm other creatures afflicted with nullsoul, though it gains no special knowledge of who has the disease. At the compelled state, the victim is subject to a suggestion (CL 13th) to spread nullsoul to as many androids as possible. Transformed is the end state; the target is transformed into a nullsoul host of their original CR and only miracle, warp reality, and wish can cure the disease and restore the android to their original self.