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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackJaw" data-source="post: 107690" data-attributes="member: 888">The problem with vampires in space is that there is, in fact, a lot of sunlight (in systems).  Now inside a ship, that isn't a problem, but windows in a ship is bad, and outside a ship is worse.  now deep space activities and bases leads to no sunlight, and that's easy enough to do.  also makes it immposible to locate the fleet or base without info on where to look.On the other hand, undead don't need to eat, sleep, or breath.  (well vampries may need to eat)  That means you can fill a large ship with more undead, espeicaly minor ones, and simply release them as needed.  think about etheral undead that can move out of the ships, through space, and into enemy ships directly boarding them at any location (ok, so you may need to get the FORCE SHEILDS down first).I'd actualy recomend making the head vampire something really special.  vampire dragon is cool and that bends the template rules only slightly.  A yellow dragon works well for this as yellows are all but dead, and had not affiliation.  another idea is the overly powerful spellcasting vampire (which is just to dang common in my opinion.  why is it that all master mind villians are powerful spellcasters?)  or my personal favorite, the Barbarian undead.That last one works well for the dragon star setting.  imagine a normal DnD world, that was attacked and taken over my the empire long ago, one of the first ones after the switch to evil dragon rule.  That world had a powerful vampire warlord in it's northern region artic region.  a small army of vampire spawn and barbarian vampries that lay dormant durring the summer in deep ice caves, and then emerge durring the winter when the sky is always dark.  They awoke after the dragon emprie had taken their world, and proceeded to deal with it.The army took a ship by force, and having made much of its crew dominated if not undead also, they could easly leave the world and start their raids.  Slowly growing in ships and technical knowledge. I'd have the head vampire be the orginal undead warlord, and his right hand man a Mechanic of high level (also a vampire, or maybe a lich!) that handles the more technical matters, not that the barbarian hasn't had decades to learn.Just imagine what those ships would look like, espeicaly on the inside.  half lovecraftian bone temples, with a very connan the barbarian theme, wrapped in metal modified (no windows, solid black) space ship hulls.Of course their tactics are still like they were on their home world.  lay dormant then strike in mass.Then again, a yellow dragon vampire lord, seeking vengence for the death of it's race would be cool and keep the dragon politics in play.</blockquote>

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