Creature Seed: Patchwork Haifische (Patchwork Sharks)

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Patchwork Haifische (Patchwork Sharks)

(Blame this.)

The Patchwork haifisch (Patchwork Shark) is a legacy creature of World War I Germany’s Mad Science program.  The project (under the barely erratic leadership of Doktor Jacob von Kaulla) aimed to create undead sentinels for Kriegsmarine submarine pens; the goal was to prevent minelaying and other forms of underwater sabotage.  And it would have worked, too… if only the German General Staff had authorized the project two years earlier.  Dr. von Kaulla’s team produced a working prototype six months after the Armistice, and all data on said project was immediately suppressed and compartmentalized, lest the Allies hear of it and force the Germans to surrender it.

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