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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8087312" data-attributes="member: 40176">If you want a bit of fantasy/horror in your setting, the old Tom Baker era Doctor Who episode State of Decay had a unique take on vampires. The Great Vampires who were the progenitors of the curse of vampirism that was inflicted on the peoples of many worlds were not themselves humanoid, but were massive bat-like creatures with biological spaceflight capabilities who invaded our universe millions of years ago. They had immense regenerative capabilities making them all but invulnerable unless their heart was completely destroyed, shrugging off the energy weapons that most species used in space combat at the time.The Time Lords battled them in what was known as the Eternal War, only defeating them once Rassilon developed the specialised vessels known as Bowships which could fire massive physical projectiles capable of destroying a Great Vampire's heart in a single direct hit.So basically you have massive vampiric beasts spreading their curse on a planetary scale in order to harvest the blood of entire populations, and you still need to kill them with a stake to the heart, but in this case the stake needs to be about the size of a skyscraper.</blockquote>